Ferri's Clinical Advisor: Instant Diagnosis and TreatmentComprehensively updated annually, Ferri's Clinical Advisor covers more than 1000 current topics in 5 handy sections. It's the fast, efficient way to access the important diagnostic and therapeutic information you need every day! Divided into five distinct sections dealing with over 1000 topics, this book offers basic information on over 600 disorders organized into easy-to-use lists, enhanced with ICD-9CM codes, clinical pearls, and illustrations, tables, and boxes highlighting important considerations. Almost 500 signs and symptoms and 200 clinical algorithms assist in diagnosis and expediting patient workup and therapy. Two additional sections of the book offer over 200 laboratory tests with interpretation of results, as well as extensive information on clinical preventive services and patient care guidelines from the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force. A must-have for every primary care healthcare provider. |
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Acetaminophen poisoning | 19 |
Acquired immunodeficiency | 25 |
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abdominal abnormalities abscess ACUTE GENERAL Rx adults anemia antibiotics antibody artery arthritis associated atrial atrial fibrillation BASIC INFORMATION DEFINITION biopsy bleeding blood bone cancer carcinoma cardiac cause cell cervical chemotherapy Chest x-ray CHRONIC Rx Clin CLINICAL PRESENTATION common corticosteroids CT scan decreased DEMOGRAPHICS INCIDENCE diabetes diabetes mellitus DIAGNOSIS DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS disease disorder DISPOSITION dose doxycycline drug dyspnea edema elevated Engl EPIDEMIOLOGY & DEMOGRAPHICS ETIOLOGY evaluation fever FINDINGS & CLINICAL Fred F GENETICS hepatitis hypertension hypothyroidism ICD-9CM CODES IMAGING STUDIES INCIDENCE IN U.S. increased infection LABORATORY TESTS lesions liver lung M.D. BASIC INFORMATION malignancy Mosby NONPHARMACOLOGIC THERAPY normal NSAIDs occur oral pain pancreatitis patients PEARLS & CONSIDERATIONS PHYSICAL FINDINGS prednisone PREDOMINANT AGE PREDOMINANT SEX pregnancy primary pulmonary recurrent REFERENCES renal sarcoidosis secondary serum skin splenomegaly St Louis surgery surgical symptoms syndrome SYNONYMS tients tion tissue treatment tumor ulcers usually viral WORKUP