Saunders Pocket Essentials of Clinical Medicine(pktcm)
Saunders Pocket Essentials of Clinical Medicine
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Publisher: Elsevier Limited
Saunders Pocket Essentials of Clinical Medicine is the ideal reference for students throughout their clinical studies. It provides a comprehensive account of general medical problems while facilitating the learning process. This latest update is based on the 4th edition with additional features, enhanced functionality and ongoing updates!
This resource includes medical emergency information, offering more information on contraindications; problem-oriented questions with answers; information on practical procedures; a dictionary of terms; abbreviations and normal values; differential diagnosis tables and more.
Key Features
Newly added sections - The special senses (ENT and Eyes) and Therapeutics.
Ethics and communication sections expanded to include record keeping, assisted suicide and other important issues
All sections made more uniform in the treatment of symptoms, signs, investigations and diseases.
Section on Therapeutics covers:
The practical use of drugs, including introductory notes on how to prescribe, writing a prescription, opiates management and other issues.
A table of the most commonly used drugs, with information on dose and route; monitoring, interaction, contraindications.
Palliative care, with specific information on drugs and other therapies used to control symptons associated with pain control (e.g. intractable nausea).
OSCEs/case-history based exam questions.
Additionally, you''ll get valuable added feature, available only from Skyscape:
New interactive flowchart: Complex algorithm and protocol are transformed from static images into dynamic step-by-step decision support tools. This innovative feature can quickly and easily walk you through even the most intricate decision models.
Built-in Medical Calculators: Provide instant access from within clinical topics to the
Anion gap
Body Mass
Creatinine Clearance Using the Cockroft-Gault Equation
GFR MDRD
Glasgow Coma Scale
Plasma osmolality
QTc
Rockall Score for Upper Gastrointestinal Haemorrhage
Sad Persons Scale
Severity Assessment for Community-Acquired Pneumonia (Curb-65 Score)
The TIMI Risk Score in Acute Coronary Syndrome
Full Images: Vivid images that aid in diagnostic workup.
Table Viewer: All the richness of extensive tables, easily viewable on the compact screen of your mobile device.
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Supported operating systems:
RIM BlackBerry OS 2.0, RIM BlackBerry OS 3.x, RIM BlackBerry OS 4.0, RIM BlackBerry OS 4.1, RIM BlackBerry OS 4.5, RIM BlackBerry OS 4.6, RIM BlackBerry OS 4.7, RIM BlackBerry OS 5.0
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