Differential Diagnosis for Primary Care, 2nd Edition – A handbook for healthcare professionals

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Differential Diagnosis for Primary Care, 2nd Edition – A handbook for healthcare professionals
By Jennifer R. Jamison, MBBCh, PhD, EdD

672 pages 95 ills
Trim size 9 1/5 X 6 1/8 in
Copyright 2007

Description
Intended for use chiefly by non-medically qualified practitioners, particularly those working in the field of manual therapy, the book provides a clear guide through the minefield of signs and symptoms with which clients commonly present. Its aim is to help practitioners to arrive quickly and logically at the correct diagnosis and in so doing to become aware of anything which does not fit the diagnosis and so needs to be referred.
Key Features
Provide a framework in which signs and symptoms commonly encountered in primary practice are differentially diagnosed
Flowcharts for each presenting complaint to aid in the formulation of working diagnosis
Provides a screening checklist which indicates clinical findings suggesting the need to refer
Division of information into sections to facilitate ready referral to information routinely used in clinical practice

Table of Contents
Part 1 The principles and purpose of diagnosis
1.The principles of diagnosis: from black box to glass bowl; 2. The principles of drug therapy
Part 2 The differential diagnosis of patients’complaints
3.Introduction; 4. Abdominal pain; 5. Anorectal pain; 6. Anxiety; 7. Backache; 8. Blackouts; 9. Bleeding from the bowel; 10. Breathlessness; 11. Bruising and easy bleeding; 12. Chest pain; 13. Clubbing; 14. Confusion and confused behaviour; 15. Constipation; 16. Cough; 17.Cyanosis; 18. Deafness sand hearing impairment; 19. Depression; 20. Diarrhea; 21. Dizziness; 22. Dysphagia; 23. Dysuria; 24. Earache; 25. Facial pain; 26. Fatigue; 27. Fever (pyrexia); 28. Flushing; 29. Genital pain or discomfort; 30. Halitosis; 31. Headache; 32. Hematemesis; 33. Hematuria; 34. Hirsutism; 35. Impotence; 36. Indigestion; 37. Itch; 38. Jaundice; 39. Joint pain; 40. Limb pain; 41. Lump; 42. Menstrual problems; 43. Pallor; 44. Palpitations; 45. Period pains; 46. Pins and needles; 47. Rash; 48. Red eye; 49. Runny nose; 50.Sore throat; 51. Swollen ankles; 52. Tremor; 53. Ulcer; 54. Unsteadiness; 55. Urinary frequency; 56. Vaginal discharge; 57. Visual impairment; 58. Vomiting; 59. Weakness; 60. Weight problems; 61. Wheeze
Part 3 Clinical conditions
Glossary; Index