Essential Primary Care aims to provide undergraduate students with a comprehensive overview of the clinical problems encountered in primary care. It covers the structure of primary care in the UK, disease prevention and the management of common and important clinical presentations from infancy to old age. Case studies are used in every chapter to illustrate key learning points. The book provides practical advice on how to consult with patients, make sense of their symptoms, explain things to them, and manage their problems.Essential Primary Care: Is structured in five sections: – The building blocks of primary care: its structure and connection with secondary care, the consultation, the process of making a diagnosis, prescribing, and ethical issues – Health promotion – Common and important presenting problems in roughly chronological order – Cancer – Death and palliative care Gives advice on how to phrase questions when consulting with patients and how to present information to patients Provides advice on how management extends to prescribing – often missing from current textbooks Contains case studies within each chapter which reflect the variety of primary care and provide top tips and advice for consulting with patients Supported by a companion website at www.wileyessential.com/primarycare featuring MCQs, EMQs, cases and OSCE checklists INDICE: List of Contributors .Preface .Foreword by Chris Salisbury .How to use your textbook .About the companion website .Part 1: The Key Features of Primary Care .1 The structure and organisation of primary careAndrew Blythe .2 The GP consultation Jessica Buchan .3 Making a diagnosisBarbara Laue .4 PrescribingAndrew Blythe .5 The interface with secondary careSarah Jahfar .6 The everyday ethics of primary careTrevor Thompson .Part 2: Healthy Living and Disease Prevention .7 Behaviour changeJessica Buchan .8 Alcohol and drug misuseAndrew Blythe .9 Preventing cardiovascular diseaseAndrew Blythe .10 Caring for people with learning disabilities Andrew Blythe .Part 3: Common Presenting Problems .11 TirednessAndrew Blythe .Childhood .12 Child health in primary care Jessica Buchan .13 Managing the feverish and ill child in primary careAlastair Hay, Lucy Jenkins & Jessica Buchan .14 Managing common problems in infancyJessica Buchan .15 Managing chronic conditions in childhoodLucy Jenkins, Alastair Hay, Matthew Ridd & Jessica Buchan .16 Teenage and young adult healthJessica Buchan & David Kessler .Early adulthood .17 Respiratory tract infections Lucy Jenkins .18 Low back painJessica Buchan .19 Heartburn and dyspepsiaJessica Buchan .20 Diarrhoea and rectal bleedingAndrew Blythe .21 Common skin conditionsMatthew Ridd .22 HeadacheAndrew Blythe .23 Fits, faints and funny turnsAndrew Blythe .24 Depression, anxiety and self harmDavid Kessler .25 Sexual health and dysuriaLucy Jenkins .26 Menstrual problem, contraception and termination of pregnancyJessica Buchan .27 PregnancyJessica Buchan .28 Domestic violence and abuse Gene Feder .Middle and old age .29 Cardiovascular diseaseAndrew Blythe .30 BreathlessnessJessica Buchan .31 Joint pains and stiffnessAndrew Blythe .32 Urinary problems and prostate diseaseSimon Thornton .33 The menopauseJessica Buchan .34 Multimorbidity and polypharmacyPolly Duncan & Andrew Blythe .35 Falls and fragility fracturesAndrew Blythe .36 Visual and hearing lossAndrew Blythe .37 DementiaAndrew Blythe .Part 4: Cancer .38 Spotting patients with cancerAndrew Blythe .39 Looking after patients with cancerAndrew Blythe .Part 5: Palliative Care and Death .40 Palliative care and deathAndrew Blythe .Index
- ISBN: 978-1-118-86761-7
- Editorial: Wiley–Blackwell
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 352
- Fecha Publicación: 29/04/2016
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés