Cases in Clinical Infectious Disease Practice - Okechukwu Ekenna

Книга "Cases in Clinical Infectious Disease Practice" использует метод преподавания на примере клинических случаев, чтобы проиллюстрировать, как инфекционист-клиницист анализирует и интегрирует данные, чтобы сделать диагноз. В книге описываются случаи пациентов с общими проблемами и осложнениями обычных инфекций, что делает ее доступной для врачей всех уровней квалификации, студентов медицинских и магистерских программ, а также лабораторного персонала, работающего со клиническими образцами. Книга подчеркивает важность базовых клинических навыков, таких как сбор анамнеза, наблюдение, эпидемиология и физический осмотр, а также простых лабораторных тестов, объясняя, как они могут привести к разумному диагнозу. Описываются случаи, с которыми резиденты или студенты могут столкнуться в реальном мире после получения образования. Книга "Cases in Clinical Infectious Disease Practice" является необходимым ресурсом для врачей, студентов медицинских и магистерских программ, а также для всех, занимающихся медицинской и клинической микробиологией или исследованиями инфекционных заболеваний на реальных пациентах. Книга подчеркивает важность традиционных навыков, таких как внимательное отношение к пациенту, наблюдение и слушание, а также физический осмотр, которые остаются важными для достижения полноценного и точного диагноза, несмотря на сокращение времени, которое врачи могут уделять каждому пациенту в связи с экономическими ограничениями и недостаточной страховкой здоровья для многих пациентов.

In an era of bottom-line accounting and rapidly eroding medical coverage for many people, those core clinical skills--good well-taken histories, keen observation, careful listening, and skillful physical examination--are sorely underrewarded. Yet all too often they are absolutely crucial to establishing and verifying accurate and complete diagnoses. Truly advanced laboratory and diagnostic imaging techniques are often sorely needed, but they can never, ever replace those long-held founding competencies that help connect us to our patients and enhanced and compound understanding of illness.

This book uses illustrative case-studies to show how infectious disease clinicians compile data, analyze it and arrive at tentative diagnoses and prognoses. This textbook approach, beneficial for education programs alike, traces your readers stepwise through each action taken: first initial approach to the patient, then gruding work of gathering pertinent history, punctuated by useful physical examination guidelines, bolstered by simple laboratory assessments, until a meaningful conclusion finally offers a clear path forward.

Cases in Clinical Infectious Diseases Practice presents these tales, vivid, tangible examples of clinical practice, experienced with utmost frankness within our own community, which will likely remind graduate students what their future career will look like. It's an invaluable resource for medical specialists, trainees in training hospitals and clinics, and those pursuing Masters in Medical Microbiology or Infectious Disease research.

Электронная Книга «Cases in Clinical Infectious Disease Practice» написана автором Okechukwu Ekenna в году.

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Язык: Английский

ISBN: 9781119044185

In the era of cost cutting and lack of adequate health insurance for many patients, clinical skills and time spent with patients are not adequately compensated. Yet, these dwindling and underpaid skills – good history taking, observation of and listening to patients, and physical examination of patients – remain very essential to making and reaching a complete and accurate diagnosis. Expensive laboratory and imaging diagnostics while very relevant, should not replace these age-old skills that have served to enhance and maintain the doctor-patient relationship and human connection, a connection that is often necessary for healing. Cases in Clinical Infectious Disease Practice uses case studies to illustrate how the infectious disease clinician processes and integrates data to arrive at a diagnosis. This type of hands-on approach, invaluable in training programs, is utilized to take the reader through initial patient encounter, through the history and physical examination, to simple laboratory findings and stains, to a final diagnosis, in a way that is easily accessible to clinicians, students, and laboratory personnel working with clinical specimens. Appeals to practitioners of all levels, with focus on patients with common problems or complications of common infections without heavy technical language Emphasizes basic clinical skills including history taking, observation, epidemiology, and physical exam, as well as simple laboratory tests, explaining how they lead to a reasonable diagnosis Presents cases seen first-hand within the community setting, reflective of cases or situations a resident or student is likely to encounter in the real world after training Cases in Clinical Infectious Disease Practice is an essential resource for clinicians, graduate and medical school students, and others conducting medical and clinical microbiology or infectious disease research on real patients.