100 Cases in Orthopaedics and Rheumatology

A 24-year-old woman attends rheumatology outpatients with an eight-week history of painful hands; on examination, she is tearful and thin. You are the medic on duty—how would you approach her diagnosis and management? 100 Cases in Orthopaedics and Rheumatology helps you tackle the challenge of clinical decision-making through 100 scenarios commonly encountered by medical students and junior doctors in orthopaedic and rheumatology clinics or the emergency department.

What you'll learn

• Recognize important symptoms and signs and, where appropriate, understand their relationship to other medical conditions.
• Develop your diagnostic skills by working through succinct summaries of each patient’s history, examination and initial investigations.
• Practise management decisions with questions on the diagnosis and management of each case, helping you consider the best course of action.
• Connect clinical findings with visual evidence through clinical and/or imaging photographs accompanying the cases.
• Deepen your understanding with answers that provide detailed discussions of each topic and further illustrations where appropriate.
• Support revision and practical learning with a case-based resource designed to serve as both a revision aid and a practical guide.

Who this is for

This book is for medical students and junior doctors developing their orthopaedic and rheumatology knowledge. It supports learners facing one of the most challenging parts of medical training: making clinical decisions and choosing the best course of action in clinics and the emergency department.

Details

• Authors: Parminder Singh, Catherine Swales
• Edition: 1
• Publisher: CRC Press
• Brand / library: Orthopedics Library
• Published date: March 30, 2012
• Pages: 288
• ISBN: 9781040161500, 1040161502

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