Medical Symptoms: A Visual Guide, 2nd Edition

Medical Symptoms: A Visual Guide, 2nd Edition
Author: DK
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 258
Release: 2022-04-05
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 0744063027

Find home remedies and advice on illnesses and injuries! There are plenty of medical scenarios that can be identified and treated at home. This medical reference book takes you through the most common illnesses and injuries, their symptoms, locations in the body, how to treat them at home and when to seek professional medical attention. Inside this first aid guide, you’ll find: • Easy-to-access visual symptoms guide, arranged by body part affected, working from head to toe • Intuitive entry-level helps the reader identify illness or locate injury quickly • Clear, simple illustrations of the associated anatomy help medical understanding • Conditions are listed in order of likelihood, with the most likely first, for speedy diagnosis • Symbols direct a reader to the appropriate form of medical help • Concise explanations of all the conditions featured in the diseases and disorders section • Updated to include Covid-19 Medical Symptoms is an easy-to-use visual symptoms finder and self-diagnosis book that will help you check out any health problem. Discover what an ailment or pain might be and what you should do. You’ll find explanations of symptoms and diseases, clear human anatomy photographs, and suggested home care instructions. Once you’ve narrowed it down, a cross-reference takes you to easy-to-follow descriptions of the condition at the back of the book. Potentially life-threatening situations symptoms that need urgent medical advice are clearly flagged. This is the perfect home medical guide for your family and is fully illustrated throughout.

Medical Symptoms: A Visual Guide, 2nd Edition

Medical Symptoms: A Visual Guide, 2nd Edition
Author: DK
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2022-04-05
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 0744051657

Find home remedies and advice on illnesses and injuries! There are plenty of medical scenarios that can be identified and treated at home. This medical reference book takes you through the most common illnesses and injuries, their symptoms, locations in the body, how to treat them at home and when to seek professional medical attention. Inside this first aid guide, you’ll find: • Easy-to-access visual symptoms guide, arranged by body part affected, working from head to toe • Intuitive entry-level helps the reader identify illness or locate injury quickly • Clear, simple illustrations of the associated anatomy help medical understanding • Conditions are listed in order of likelihood, with the most likely first, for speedy diagnosis • Symbols direct a reader to the appropriate form of medical help • Concise explanations of all the conditions featured in the diseases and disorders section • Updated to include Covid-19 Medical Symptoms is an easy-to-use visual symptoms finder and self-diagnosis book that will help you check out any health problem. Discover what an ailment or pain might be and what you should do. You’ll find explanations of symptoms and diseases, clear human anatomy photographs, and suggested home care instructions. Once you’ve narrowed it down, a cross-reference takes you to easy-to-follow descriptions of the condition at the back of the book. Potentially life-threatening situations symptoms that need urgent medical advice are clearly flagged. This is the perfect home medical guide for your family and is fully illustrated throughout.

The Medical Checkup Book

The Medical Checkup Book
Author: DK
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 192
Release: 2020-03-31
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 0744022231

Written by experts and packed with user-friendly information and practical lifestyle advice, this is the ultimate guide for anyone interested in their health. Knowing which health checks and tests to get when can prevent illness and problems, and even save your life. This easy-to-use guide explains all the common health tests so that you can understand and manage your well-being. When you've had a physical, how often do you understand what the results really mean for your health and your lifestyle? You've probably heard of good cholesterol and bad cholesterol, but what does that mean? And what can you do if you're told your bad cholesterol is high? Why are there two figures to show your blood pressure? Is weight gain hereditary? Be proactive in managing your health by learning more about how it is measured. Discover what factors influence medical tests, and what lifestyle changes you can make to keep fit and healthy for longer. Explore the variety of tests and screenings you may undergo at a doctor's or workplace health assessment - find out what is tested, why it is tested, and what the results mean. The Medical Checkup Book is the only visual guide to explain all common medical tests and what preventative measures you can take to minimize the risks and maximize your health.

The Patient History: Evidence-Based Approach

The Patient History: Evidence-Based Approach
Author: Mark Henderson
Publisher: McGraw Hill Professional
Total Pages: 754
Release: 2012-06-13
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 0071624945

The definitive evidence-based introduction to patient history-taking NOW IN FULL COLOR For medical students and other health professions students, an accurate differential diagnosis starts with The Patient History. The ideal companion to major textbooks on the physical examination, this trusted guide is widely acclaimed for its skill-building, and evidence based approach to the medical history. Now in full color, The Patient History defines best practices for the patient interview, explaining how to effectively elicit information from the patient in order to generate an accurate differential diagnosis. The second edition features all-new chapters, case scenarios, and a wealth of diagnostic algorithms. Introductory chapters articulate the fundamental principles of medical interviewing. The book employs a rigorous evidenced-based approach, reviewing and highlighting relevant citations from the literature throughout each chapter. Features NEW! Case scenarios introduce each chapter and place history-taking principles in clinical context NEW! Self-assessment multiple choice Q&A conclude each chapter—an ideal review for students seeking to assess their retention of chapter material NEW! Full-color presentation Essential chapter on red eye, pruritus, and hair loss Symptom-based chapters covering 59 common symptoms and clinical presentations Diagnostic approach section after each chapter featuring color algorithms and several multiple-choice questions Hundreds of practical, high-yield questions to guide the history, ranging from basic queries to those appropriate for more experienced clinicians

The American Medical Association Guide to Your Family's Symptoms

The American Medical Association Guide to Your Family's Symptoms
Author: American Medical Association
Publisher: Random House (NY)
Total Pages: 326
Release: 1992
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 9780679741282

You've got a nagging headache -- is it simple stress something more serious? Your little girl is listless and irritable -- do you need to rush her to the pediatrician? You'll find the answers in The American Medical Association Guide to Your Family's Symptoms, an easy-to-use guide to understanding both common and unusual symptoms of men, women, and children. Unique at-a-glance charts with simple yes-or-no questions will help you analyze hundreds of ailments and recognize when to treat at home, go to the doctor, or rush to the emergency room. This unique guide is -- Simple and easy to use -- Illustrated with clear charts and drawings -- Filled with practical home care information and advice on alleviating symptoms -- Reassuring with its comprehensive emergency and first-aid section -- An essential quick reference for problems from birth through adolescence, adulthood, and the later years

General ultrasound in the critically ill

General ultrasound in the critically ill
Author: Daniel A. Lichtenstein
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 205
Release: 2005-12-05
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 3540268162

Written by an intensivist familiar with ultrasound, this book describes a new clinical tool: ultrasound for the intensive care and emergency physician. It specifically details findings of immediate clinical relevance throughout its pages. This volume is not only an exhaustive atlas dealing with the most variable aspects of the critically ill patient, but it is above all a guide, a permanent aid in the therapeutic decision.

Medical Symptoms: A Visual Guide

Medical Symptoms: A Visual Guide
Author: DK
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 258
Release: 2018-01-09
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 1465475303

An invaluable health and symptoms reference guide for anyone looking to identify a medical problem quickly. This simple, visual symptom checker helps you check out any health problem and directs you to what it might be and what you should do. Whether it's a symptom you have been ignoring for a while or something like a sudden pain after a fall, Medical Symptoms: A Visual Guide tells you what it could be and what action to take. A series of head-to-toe visual diagnostic guides help you to identify suspected conditions or injuries and once you've narrowed it down, a cross-reference takes you to easy-to-follow descriptions of the condition at the back of the book. Potentially life-threatening situations and ailments that need urgent medical advice are clearly flagged. Medical Symptoms: A Visual Guide is the perfect resource for identifying what might be wrong and what you should do next.

The Complete Human Body

The Complete Human Body
Author: Alice Roberts
Publisher: Dorling Kindersley Ltd
Total Pages: 528
Release: 2016-06-01
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 024150659X

Intricate details of all aspects of the human body down to the smallest detail - from our cells and DNA, to the largest bone in our bodies, the femur. 3D generated illustrations and medical imaging provide a close look at the body's forms and functions in physiology and anatomy, showing how the body works and its amazing systems and abilities. To understand our modern human bodies, this book first looks at our ancestors and how the evolution of Homo Sapiens shaped our anatomy. This gave us the ability to walk tall, create language, and make tools with our incredibly adapted apposable thumbs. Learn how we can see evolution in our DNA, and the functions of DNA. Read about the things you can only see with microscopes and other special imaging machines, like cell structure, motor pathways in the brain, and the inner iris. All these many parts work together to make the human body. The physiology of our body is written in clarifying detail. Learn about the organs and systems that operate within, such as the cardiovascular, digestive, and neural systems. See our elegant anatomy and read how the skeleton, muscles, and ligaments operate to allow movement. This second addition has included more detail on the joints in the hands and feet. The Complete Human Body takes you from infancy to old age showing how our body grows and changes, and what can go wrong. 2nd Edition: Enhanced and Updated This visual guide uses remarkable illustrations and diagrams to let you peek inside our complex and astounding bodies. It has been written in an easy-to-follow format, with straightforward explanations to give you the best overview of the many things that make us human. Suitable for young students who want an extra resource for school, people working in medical fields, or for anyone with a keen interest in human biology. Inside the body of the book: - The Integrated Body - Anatomy - How the Body Works - Life Cycles - Diseases and Disorders

Handbook of Signs & Symptoms

Handbook of Signs & Symptoms
Author: Lippincott Williams & Wilkiins
Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
Total Pages: 1117
Release: 2015-01-16
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 1496310543

Thoroughly updated for its Fifth Edition, this convenient, portable handbook is a comprehensive guide to the evaluation of more than 530 signs and symptoms. It has all the assessment information busy clinicians need in a single source. Each entry describes the sign or symptom and covers emergency interventions if needed, history and physical examination, medical and other causes with their associated signs and symptoms, and special considerations such as tests, monitoring, treatment, and gender and cultural issues. This edition identifies specific signs and symptoms caused by emerging diseases such as avian flu, monkeypox, respiratory syncytial virus, norovirus, metabolic syndrome, blast lung injury, Kawasaki disease, and popcorn lung disease.