Davidson's Foundations Of Clinical Practice (Paperback)

Patients have co-morbidity and mixed patterns of clinical presentation. This book features the key guidance on the presentation and care of those who attend within a wide range of disciplines. It emphasises on acute, as compared with chronic, symptom presentation and effective management.

Salient Features
* Provides a concise and high quality account of the relevant information for those working in Foundation training
* Includes practical step-by-step guidance on a range of core clinical procedures
* Provides valuable information on the non-clinical aspects of a clinical career
* Written by an author team with extensive practical experience of teaching trainee hospital doctors.

Table of Contents
Section 1 Basic principles of patient care
* Initial assessment and emergency management
* Use of equipment and procedures
* Interpreting tests
* Drugs and prescribing

Section 2 Symptoms and related acute presentations
* Cardiac and chest
* Abdominal
* Endocrine, electrolyte and renal
* Neurological and psychiatric
* Sepsis, shock and trauma

Section 3 Specialties and cancers
* Specialty acute presentations
* Cancers and palliative care

Section 4 Everyday life as a junior doctor
* On the ward
* Legal and ethical practice
* Looking after yourself
* Developing a career
* Working as part of the system of care
* Working in the UK