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This book invites clinicians to take a fresh look at the routine physical examination by outlining in detail how they can adapt a more efficient, regional approach to the exam activity. By adopting the systematic sequence and focus provided in this novel title, clinicians can offer a more modern physical examination, one that may prove more productive than the methods taught in the pre-imaging era.
The Physical Exam: An Innovative Approach in the Age of Imaging offers a unique, step-by-step sequence for the physical exam. The text guides the clinician through a series of steps that involve observing, touching and listening - in an organized sequence, region by region - of all organ systems. The general approach is applicable to every physical examination and can be modified when appropriate. Express pathways are provided so that the clinicians can quickly assess the general health of the patient while focusing on the presenting problem. A major contribution to the diagnostic literature, the book offers a format and level of complexity that will be of significant value to internal medicine and family physicians, emergency professionals, nurse practitioners, physician's assistants, and medical students.
List of contents
Part I. Patient sitting, facing examiner.- Chapter 1. INTRODUCTION.- Chapter 2. FIRST IMPRESSION.- Chapter 3. HAND.- Chapter 4. WRIST.- Chapter 5. THE ONE-MINUTE PHYSICAL EXAMINATION.- Chapter 6. FOREARM.- Chapter 7. ELBOW.- Chapter 8. VITAL SIGNS.- Chapter 9. SHOULDER.- Chapter 10. NECK.- Chapter 11. FACE.- Chapter 12. EYE.- Chapter 13. EAR.- Chapter 14. NOSE.- Chapter 15. MOUTH.- Chapter 16. THE ONE-MINUTE CRANIAL NERVE EXAMINATION.- Part II. Patient sitting with legs on table at 90 degrees from examiner.- Chapter 17. CHEST/LUNG.- Chapter 18. HEART.- Part III. Patient lying in 30 degrees, semi-supine position.- Chapter 19. NECK: SEMI-SUPINE.- Chapter 20. ABDOMEN.- Chapter 21. LEG: SUPINE.- Part IV. Patient sitting, facing examiner.- Chapter 22. LEG: SITTING.- Chapter 23. KNEE.- Chapter 24. FOOT.- Part V. Patient standing.- Chapter 25. BACK.- Chapter 26. GAIT.- Part VI. Male standing, female supine.- Chapter 27. URO-GENITAL SYSTEM.- Part VII. The Diabetic Foot.- Addendum. THE DIABETICFOOT.
About the author
Raymond E. Phillips, MD, FACP
Physician, Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine
Westchester Medical Center, New York Medical College
Department of Medicine
Summary
This book invites clinicians to take a fresh look at the routine physical examination by outlining in detail how they can adapt a more efficient, regional approach to the exam activity. By adopting the systematic sequence and focus provided in this novel title, clinicians can offer a more modern physical examination, one that may prove more productive than the methods taught in the pre-imaging era.
The Physical Exam: An Innovative Approach in the Age of Imaging offers a unique, step-by-step sequence for the physical exam. The text guides the clinician through a series of steps that involve observing, touching and listening – in an organized sequence, region by region – of all organ systems. The general approach is applicable to every physical examination and can be modified when appropriate. Express pathways are provided so that the clinicians can quickly assess the general health of the patient while focusing on the presenting problem. A major contribution to the diagnostic literature, the book offers a format and level of complexity that will be of significant value to internal medicine and family physicians, emergency professionals, nurse practitioners, physician’s assistants, and medical students.
Report
"This book takes a fresh look at the routine physical examination. ... This approach is geared more toward experienced examiners who understand the traditional basics and can incorporate newer techniques to advance their knowledge of the physical examination. ... The book does take a new perspective and order of physical findings based upon the patient position, which would provide a time-saving advantage." (Vincent F. Carr, Doody's Book Reviews, January, 2018)
