Oxford Cases in Medicine and Surgery

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An excellent book written with a refreshing clinical approach that provides the reader with the important key facts.

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Ask the patient to quantify approximately how much blood they have passed—familiar measures such as a teaspoon, eggcup, or wine glass may be easier for the patient than asking them to provide an estimate in millilitres. This hands-on approach, which stimulates active learning, mirrors that used by successful clinicians on the wards, challenging students with questions at each stage of a case (history-taking, examination, investigation, management). This table, and the indications of prevalence within it, refers to overt rectal bleeding as occult rectal bleeding will not be noticed by the patient. Subsequent short cases test this learning, whilst reminding students to be wary of other conditions that may present in a similar way. By using the Web site, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agreed to be bound by the Terms and Conditions.Until medical science invents such a device or google becomes implanted into our occipital lobes, I thoroughly recommend the Oxford Cases in Medicine and Surgery. Vomiting within an hour of eating suggests an obstruction high in the gastrointestinal (GI) tract proximal to the gastric outlet.

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The answers are well presented with references to diagnostic guidelines, and also come with easily digestible mnemonics. For example, if a 69-year-old male diabetic patient with known unstable angina presents with exercise-induced epigastric pain, you would be wise to perform an electrocardiogram (ECG) and obtain baseline observations at the earliest opportunity. Substantial bleeding from lesions proximal in the GI tract may present with melaena (jet black, tarry stool caused by bacterial oxidation of haem) or may present as frank blood (haematochezia) if transit times are sufficiently rapid. Patients present with symptoms such as ‘chest pain’ and it is your job to elicit the key clues on history and examination, and to arrange the key investigations that will confirm that this is a myocardial infarction and rule out other diagnoses. With references to landmark trials, relevant guidelines, and the inclusion of questions that are frequently asked in clinical settings, this book is an essential resource for all medicine students, and provides a modern, well-rounded introduction to life on the wards.Within each chapter, a long case walks the student through a logical method for tackling patients presenting with a given symptom.

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They present with symptoms, such as ‘chest pain’, which could be a myocardial infarction—but could also be anything from reflux oesophagitis to aortic dissection. Farne, Hugo, Edward Norris-Cervetto, and James Warbrick-Smith, Oxford Cases in Medicine and Surgery ( New York, 2015; online edn, Oxford Academic , 12 Nov. To work out what type of confusion this is, you should start by conducting a quick screen of confusion because if the patient does poorly in your screen, taking a conventional history may prove unhelpful. All the major presenting symptoms in general medicine and surgery (mapped to UK medical school curricula) are covered, together with a broad range of pathologies.It uses cas histories to guide through all major medical and surgical scenarios, giving an initial presenting complaint and then working enough each case giving differentials, explaining why each is more likely, before going on to thoroughly describe what investigations are needed and why.

Oxford Cases in Medicine and Surgery eBook : Farne, Hugo

I thoroughly, thoroughly recommend it to all medical students - and the sooner in you training the better. At the other end of the spectrum, it may take weeks or months before diseases such as lung cancer or pulmonary fibrosis cause sufficient dyspnoea for the patient to present. This approach represents the book's real strength, mirroring as it does the integrated systems-based approach that is commonly used by many medical schools. You should additionally enquire about symptoms of hypovolaemia—any light-headedness, collapse, chest pain or breathlessness?Access to content on Oxford Academic is often provided through institutional subscriptions and purchases. Hugo Farne, Specialist Registrar in Respiratory Medicine, London Deanery,Edward Norris-Cervetto, Specialist Registrar in Emergency Medicine, Oxford Deanery,James Warbrick-Smith, Specialist Registrar in Plastic Surgery, Wales Deanery.