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The Physical Exam
An Innovative Approach in the Age of Imaging
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Main description:

This book invites clinicians to take a fresh look at the routine physical examination by outlining in detail how they can adapt a more efficient, regional approach to the exam activity. By adopting the systematic sequence and focus provided in this novel title, clinicians can offer a more modern physical examination, one that may prove more productive than the methods taught in the pre-imaging era.
The Physical Exam: An Innovative Approach in the Age of Imaging offers a unique, step-by-step sequence for the physical exam. The text guides the clinician through a series of steps that involve observing, touching and listening - in an organized sequence, region by region - of all organ systems. The general approach is applicable to every physical examination and can be modified when appropriate. Express pathways are provided so that the clinicians can quickly assess the general health of the patient while focusing on the presenting problem. A major contribution to the diagnostic literature, the book offers a format and level of complexity that will be of significant value to internal medicine and family physicians, emergency professionals, nurse practitioners, physician's assistants, and medical students.


Contents:

Part I. Patient sitting, facing examiner

Chapter 1. INTRODUCTION

THE 'LITTLE' THINGS

Hygiene

Lighting

Access

Tools

Attitude

Privacy

Listening

THE ABC'S

Symmetry

Direction

Sequence

Chapter 2. FIRST IMPRESSION

Chapter 3. HAND

Color

Moisture

Temperature

Texture

Movement

Contractures

Spots

Bumps

Size

Joints

Fingertips

Fingernails

Neuromuscular function

Chapter 4. WRIST

Range of movement

Power

Stiffness

Bumps

Arterial pulses

Chapter 5. THE ONE-MINUTE PHYSICAL EXAMINATION

Chapter 6. FOREARM

Movement

Pain / tenderness

Dermatitis

Bumps

Chapter 7. ELBOW

Range of Motion

Enlargement

Chapter 8. VITAL SIGNS

Blood pressure

Temperature

Chapter 9. SHOULDER

Symmetry

Range of motion

Neuromuscular function

Chapter 10. NECK

Trachea

Thyroid

Lymph nodes

Salivary glands

Range of motion

Pain / weakness

Chapter 11. FACE

Shape

Color

Pigmentation

Texture

Spots

Vesicles

Telangiectasia

Angioma

Rash

Bumps

Urticaria

Neoplastic lesions

Hair

Sinuses

Neurologic function

Chapter 12. EYE

Palpebral fissures

Central vision

Peripheral vision

Pupils

Ocular motion

Conjunctiva

Sclera

Ocular media

Lens

Vitreous humor

Retina

Optic disc

Arterioles

Venules

Macula / Fovea

Chapter 13. EAR

Hearing acuity

Canals

Tympanic membrane

Chapter 14. NOSE

Smell

Tubinates

Septum

Chapter 15. MOUTH

Tongue

Teeth / Gingival membranes

Buccal mucosa

Palate

Pharynx

Chapter 16. THE ONE-MINUTE CRANIAL NERVE EXAMINATION

II. Optic nerve

III. Oculomotor nerve

V. Trigeminal nerve

VII. Facial nerve

VIII. Auditory nerve

IX. Glossopharyngeal nerve

X. Vagus nerve

XII. Hypoglossal nerve

Summary and Perspective

Part II. Patient sitting with legs on table at 90 degrees from examiner

Chapter 17. CHEST/LUNG

Respiratory rate

Respiratory phases

Movement

Resonance

Breath sounds

Pain / Tenderness

Breasts

Chapter 18. HEART

Palpation

Auscultation

Rhythm

Heart rate

Cardiac output

High output syndrome

Low output syndrome

Part III. Patient lying in 30 degrees, semi-supine position

Chapter 19. NECK: SEMI-SUPINE

Vascular

Carotid arteries

Jugular veins

Axillae

Lymph nodes

Chapter 20. ABDOMEN

Inspection

Auscultation

Palpation

Pain / Sensitivity / Discomfort

Percussion

Liver

Gall bladder

Spleen

Kidney

Urinary bladder

Lymph nodes

Chapter 21. LEG: SUPINE

Leg length discrepancy

Leg-raising

Part IV. Patient sitting, facing examiner

Chapter 22. LEG: SITTING

Edema

Dermatitis

Arterial insufficiency

Venous insufficiency

Lymphadenitis

Neurologic function

Chapter 23. KNEE

Chapter 24. FOOT

Dorsum

Sole

Nails

Part V. Patient standing

Chapter 25. BACK

Axial alignment

Inguinal hernia

Chapter 26. GAIT

Part VI. Male standing, female supine

Chapter 27. URO-GENITAL SYSTEM

Inspection

Male

Phallus

Scrotum

Prostate

Female

Perineum

Vulva

Part VII. The Diabetic Foot

Addendum. THE DIABETIC FOOT

Skin

Muscle

Blood vessels

Arteries

Veins

Nerves

Sensory

Motor

Autonomic

Bone


PRODUCT DETAILS

ISBN-13: 9783319638461
Publisher: Springer (Springer International Publishing AG)
Publication date: November, 2017
Pages: 453
Weight: 8595g
Availability: Available
Subcategories: Diseases and Disorders, General Practice, Nursing

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