Synopses & Reviews
The Tenth Edition of this classic text provides the best foundation for performing physical examinations and taking patient history. The book features a beautiful full-color art program and a clear, simple two-column format, with highly visual step-by-step examination techniques on the left and abnormalities with differential diagnoses on the right.
This edition's health promotion sections have been extensively updated and expanded in all chapters, with new and revised national guidelines, pertinent screening tools, and more information about ways to help patients prevent disease and optimize their health across all settings and age groups. Detailed information on pain assessment is now included in the general survey, vital signs, and pain chapter. A new chapter presents assessment of mental health status and behavior to encompass the psychosocial dimensions of care. Evidence-based content has been increased, with pertinent findings, avenues for research, and references/suggested readings added across the entire book. More than 50 new line drawings and photos have been added.
A bound-in CD-ROM and companion Website include 5 Approach to Patient videos, 15 Head-to-Toe Examination videos, 25 Assessment videos, heart and breath sounds, the Center for Disease Control's pediatric growth chart, journal articles, Nursing Professional Roles and Responsibilities, and the fully searchable text. An Instructor's Resource DVD-ROM and online instructor resources are also available.
Synopsis
The Tenth Edition of this classic text provides the best foundation for performing physical examinations and taking patient history. The book features a beautiful full-color art program and a clear, simple two-column format, with highly visual step-by-step examination techniques on the left and abnormalities with differential diagnoses on the right.
This edition's health promotion sections have been extensively updated and expanded in all chapters, with new and revised national guidelines, pertinent screening tools, and more information about ways to help patients prevent disease and optimize their health across all settings and age groups. Detailed information on pain assessment is now included in the general survey, vital signs, and pain chapter. A new chapter presents assessment of mental health status and behavior to encompass the psychosocial dimensions of care. Evidence-based content has been increased, with pertinent findings, avenues for research, and references/suggested readings added across the entire book. More than 50 new line drawings and photos have been added.
A bound-in CD-ROM and companion Website include 5 Approach to Patient videos, 15 Head-to-Toe Examination videos, 25 Assessment videos, heart and breath sounds, the Center for Disease Control's pediatric growth chart, journal articles, Nursing Professional Roles and Responsibilities, and the fully searchable text. An Instructor's Resource DVD-ROM and online instructor resources are also available.
Synopsis
The Ninth Edition of this classic text provides the best foundation for performing physical examination and taking the patient history. The book features a vibrant full-color design with over 1,400 drawings and photographs and a clear, simple two-column format with examination techniques on the left and abnormalities and interpretations on the right. Highlights of this edition include greater emphasis on patient communication and interview techniques, a new chapter on the older adult, and over 200 new drawings and photographs of abnormalities. A front-of-book CD-ROM includes videos of head-to-toe examination. Additional student resources now available include an online e-book, more than 15 medical and nursing journal articles, and new videos including Cardiovascular: Neck Vessels and Heart, and Thorax and Lungs.
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9780781785921 Smeltzer Handbook for Brunner and Suddarth's Textbook of Medical-Surgical Nursing, North Amercian Edition
9780781780582 Bickley Bates' Guide to Physical Examination and History Taking, North American Edition
9780781793841 Lynn Taylor's Clinical Nursing Skills, North American Edition
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- 9780781768412 Alpers Manual of Nutritional Therapeutics (Lippincott Manual Series)
- 9780781780582 Bickley Bates' Guide to Physical Examination and History Taking, North American Edition
- 9780781775250 Moore Clinically Oriented Anatomy, North American Edition
- 9781608314126 Harvey Biochemistry, North American Edition
- 9781451113143 Harvey Pharmacology, North American Edition
- 9781451113426 Sadler Langman's Medical Embryology, North American Edition
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9780781785891 Smeltzer Brunner and Suddarth's Textbook of Medical Surgical Nursing, North American Edition Combined Volume
9780781780230 Craven Fundamentals of Nursing
9780781780582 Bickley Bates' Guide to Physical Examination and History Taking, North American Edition
9780781789820 Karch Focus on Nursing Pharmacology
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This package contains the following products:
- 9780781780582 Bickley Bates' Guide to Physical Examination and History Taking, North American Edition, 10e
- 9780781795753 Bickley Bates' Visual Guide to Physical Assessment, 4e
- 9780781793834 Taylor Fundamentals of Nursing, North American Edition, 7e
- 9781608311491 Taylor Taylor's Video Guide to Clinical Nursing Skills, Student Set, 2e
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This package contains the following items:
9780781780582 Bickley Bates' Guide to Physical Examination and History Taking
9780781795753 Bickley Bates' Visual Guide to Physical Assessment
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This package contains the following products:
9780781771948 Fischbach A Manual of Laboratory and Diagnostic Tests, North American Edition
9780781739467 Yochum Essentials of Skeletal Radiology
9780781780582 Bickley Bates' Guide to Physical Examination and History Taking,
Synopsis
The 11th edition of the pre-eminent textbook on physical examination contains foundational content to guide studentsandrsquo; approaches to history taking, interviewing, and other core assessment skills, as well as fully illustrated, step-by-step techniques that outline correct performance of physical examination. The book features a vibrant full-color art program and an easy-to-follow two-column format with step-by-step examination techniques on the left and abnormalities with differential diagnoses on the right. The comprehensive, evidence-based content is intended for medical students,and#160;high-level nursing education and practice markets, as well as related health professions such as physician assistants.
New for this edition:
--Content has been fully revised and updated to reflect the most recent health care literature.
--More than 200 new and revised photographs and drawings have been added to better illustrate key points in the accompanying text.
--Design and layout has been revised to increase discoverability of core material and special assessment tips.
--Techniques of interviewing chapter has been reorganized to provide clearer insights into the skills of empathic listening.
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This package contains the following products:
- 9780781739467 Yochum Essentials of Skeletal Radiology, 3e
- 9780781780582 Bickley Bates' Guide to Physical Examination and History Taking, North American Edition, 10e
- 9780781788724 Gartner Color Atlas of Histology, North American Edition, 5e
- 9780781775250 Moore Clinically Oriented Anatomy, North American Edition, 6e
- 9781451103151 Rohen Color Atlas of Anatomy, Canadian Edition, 7e
- 9781608315727 Lieberman Marks' Basic Medical Biochemistry, North American Edition, 4e
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This package contains the following items:
9780781750035 Lawrence Essentials of General Surgery
9780781792219 Bickley Case Studies to Accompany Bates' Guide to Physical Exam
9780781780582 Bickley Bates' Guide to Physical Examination and History Taking
9780781775137 Goroll Primary Care Medicine
9781451113143 Harvey Pharmacology, North American Edition
9781609136642 Fadem Behavioral Science in Medicine
9781451115536 Huff ECG Workout
Table of Contents
Unit I - Foundations of Health Assessment 1 Overview of Physical Examination and History Taking
2 Interviewing and the Health History
3 Clinical Reasoning, Assessment, and Plan
Unit II - Regional Examinations 4 General Survey, Vital Signs, and Pain
5 Behavior and Mental Status
6 The Skin, Hair, and Nails
7 The Head and Neck
8 The Thorax and Lungs
9 The Cardiovascular System
10 The Breasts
11 The Abdomen
12 The Peripheral Vascular System
13 Male Genitalia and Hernias
14 Female Genitalia
15 The Anus, Rectum, and Prostate
16 The Musculoskeletal System
17 The Nervous System
Unit III - Special Populations 18 Infants Through Adolescents
19 The Pregnant Woman
20 The Older Adult