Crash Course Rheumatology and Orthopaedics
For UKMLA and Medical Exams
- 5th Edition - March 26, 2024
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Authors: Anna Bradford, Elspeth Murray
- Editors: Philip Xiu, Anthony Gibson, Martin Perry
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 1 1 5 3 5 - 6
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 1 1 8 1 1 - 1
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A winning formula now for over 25 years, having sold over 1 million copies and translated in over 8 languages, each series volume has been fine-tuned and fully updated with a full-colour layout tailored to make your life easier. Especially written by senior students or junior doctors – those who understand what is essential for exam success – with all information thoroughly checked and quality assured by expert Faculty Advisers, the result is books that exactly meet your needs and you know you can trust.
Each chapter guides you succinctly through the full range of curriculum topics in the UKMLA syllabus, integrating clinical considerations with the relevant basic science and avoiding unnecessary or confusing detail. A range of text boxes help you get to the hints, tips and key points you need fast! A fully revised self-assessment section matching the latest exam formats is included to check your understanding and aid exam preparation. The accompanying enhanced, downloadable eBook completes this invaluable learning package.
Series volumes have been honed to meet the requirements of today’s medical students, although the range of other health students and professionals who need rapid access to the essentials of rheumatology and orthopaedics will also love the unique approach of Crash Course. Whether you need to get out of a fix or aim for a distinction Crash Course is for you!
Crash Course Rheumatology and Orthopaedics: For UKMLA and Medical Exams, 5th Edition directs you to the most fundamental aspects of rheumatology and orthopaedics, helping you focus on crucial concepts, test yourself, and bridge any knowledge gaps effectively. This portable guide will help you get the concise, targeted assistance you need for passing medical exams.
- Fully aligned to UKMLA requirements, with key ‘conditions’ and ‘presentations’ highlighted in handy checklists - save valuable revision time and be confident you have the syllabus covered
- Written by senior students and recent graduates - those closest to what is essential for exam success
- Quality assured by leading Faculty Advisors - ensures complete accuracy of information
- Features the ever popular 'Hints and Tips' boxes and other useful aide-mémoires - distilled wisdom from those in the know
- Updated self-assessment section matching the latest exam formats – confirm your understanding and improve exam technique fast
- Instructions for online access
- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- How to use
- Copyright
- Series editor’s foreword
- Prefaces
- Acknowledgements
- Series editor’s acknowledgement
- Rapid UKMLA Index
- 1. Taking a history
- Presenting complaint
- History of the presenting complaint
- Systemic enquiry
- Medical history
- Drug history
- Social history
- Family history
- Summary
- 2. Examining joints
- 3. Investigations
- Blood tests
- Synovial fluid analysis
- Nerve conduction studies and electromyography
- Biopsy
- Imaging
- 4. Regional musculoskeletal pain
- Neck pain
- Wrist and hand
- Complex regional pain syndrome
- Back, hip and leg pain
- Back pain
- Back and leg pain
- Hip pain, with or without leg pain
- Leg pain
- Knee pain
- Ankle and foot pain
- 5. Widespread musculoskeletal pain
- Investigating widespread pain
- Fibromyalgia
- Paraneoplastic rheumatic syndrome
- 6. An acute, hot, swollen joint
- Differential diagnosis
- History focusing on the acute, hot, swollen joint
- Examination of an acute, hot, swollen joint
- Investigation of an acute, hot, swollen joint
- 7. A child with a limp
- Differential diagnosis
- Focused history
- Focused examination of a child with a limp
- Investigating a child with a limp
- 8. Back pain
- Differential diagnosis
- History focusing on back and leg pain
- Examination focusing on back and leg pain
- Investigation of a patient with back pain
- Mechanical low back pain
- Prolapsed intervertebral disc
- Spondylolisthesis
- Spinal stenosis
- Discitis/vertebral osteomyelitis
- Scoliosis
- 9. Altered sensation and weakness
- Differential diagnosis
- History
- Carpal tunnel syndrome
- Ulnar nerve entrapment
- Radial nerve injuries
- Common peroneal nerve injuries
- 10. Osteoarthritis
- Definition
- Incidence
- Pathology and aetiology
- Clinical features
- Examination
- Diagnosis and investigation
- Management
- 11. Rheumatoid arthritis
- Definition
- Incidence and prevalence
- Aetiology
- Immunological abnormalities
- Pathology
- Clinical features
- 12. Spondyloarthropathies
- Definition
- Aetiology
- Pathology
- Ankylosing spondylitis
- Psoriatic arthritis
- Reactive arthritis
- Enteropathic arthritis
- 13. Connective tissue diseases
- Systemic lupus erythematosus
- The antiphospholipid syndrome
- Sjögren syndrome
- Polymyositis and dermatomyositis
- Systemic sclerosis
- Sarcoidosis
- 14. The vasculitides
- Pathology
- Classification of primary vasculitis
- Clinical features
- 15. Metabolic bone disease
- Osteoporosis
- Osteogenesis Imperfecta
- PAGET’S disease
- Rickets and osteomalacia
- 16. Gout and pseudogout
- Gout
- Calcium pyrophosphate dihydrate disease
- 17. Paediatric joint disease
- Normal variants
- Paediatric hip disorders
- Congenital talipes equinovarus (clubfoot)
- Osteogenesis imperfecta
- Cerebral palsy
- Nonaccidental injury
- Paediatric knee conditions
- 18. Fractures
- Incidence
- Definitions
- Clinical features
- Diagnosis and investigation
- Management
- Complications of fractures
- Common fractures
- 19. Trauma
- Definition
- Incidence
- Clinical assessment
- Investigations
- Treatment
- Open fractures
- Spinal injuries
- Pelvic fractures
- 20. Infection of bones and joints
- Introduction
- Osteomyelitis
- Septic arthritis
- Tuberculosis
- 21. Malignancy
- Benign tumours/disorders
- Malignant tumours
- Tumour mimics
- History
- Examination
- Investigation
- Primary bone tumours
- Secondary bone tumours
- Haemopoietic diseases
- Leukaemia
- 22. Sports injuries
- Introduction
- Knee injuries
- Shoulder dislocation
- Ankle sprain
- 23. Soft tissue disorders
- Introduction
- Common tendon pathologies
- Bursitis
- Dupuytren contracture
- 24. Principles of orthopaedic surgery
- Preoperative assessment
- Immediate preoperative care
- Postoperative care
- Complications
- Infection
- Self-Assessment
- UKMLA High Yield Association Table
- UKMLA single Best Answer (SBA) questions
- UKMLA SBA answers
- OSCEs and Short Clinical Cases
- Index
- Edition: 5
- Published: March 26, 2024
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN: 9780443115356
- eBook ISBN: 9780443118111
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Anthony Gibson
Affiliations and expertise
Specialty Registrar, Trauma & Orthopaedics, Royal Alexandra Hospital, Paisley, UKMP
Martin Perry
Affiliations and expertise
Consultant Rheumatologist and Physician, Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer, Royal Alexandra Hospital, Paisley; University of Glasgow, UK