Handbook Of Primary Care Medicine

Handbook of Primary Care Medicine

The Second Edition of this popular pocket-sized handbook has been thoroughly updated and includes new features that make it even more useful to medical students, residents, and primary care practitioners. This edition places greater emphasis on outpatient care and on physical diagnosis and includes new tables on everyday concerns of the primary care physician--such as primary (non-obstetrics) care of pregnant patients and preoperative and perioperative evaluation and management of patients. The chapter on cardiovascular disease has been extensively revised to emphasize prevention and provide more information on treatment of heart failure and syncope. The chapter on musculoskeletal disorders features a new, more user-friendly format. Other highlights of this edition include revised guidelines for management of diabetes mellitus and new information on women's health, HIV, secondary hypertension, urinary incontinence syndromes, adrenal insufficiency, prostate carcinoma, chemotherapy and palliative regimens, Paget's disease, anxiety disorders, vertigo syndromes, and spinal cord trauma syndromes