Davidson's Essentials of Medicine
- 3rd Edition - June 13, 2020
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Author: J. Alastair Innes
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 7 0 2 0 - 7 8 7 6 - 7
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 7 0 2 0 - 7 8 7 5 - 0
For over half a century Davidson’s Principles and Practice of Medicine has informed and educated students, doctors and other health professionals all over the world, providing… Read more
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Request a sales quoteFor over half a century Davidson’s Principles and Practice of Medicine has informed and educated students, doctors and other health professionals all over the world, providing a comprehensive account of the practice of medicine. Davidson’s Essentials of Medicine provides the core content of the main textbook in a condensed format which will be invaluable whenever you are on the move – whether commuting, travelling between training sites, or on electives.
- This book provides a distillation of the core information required for clinical studies in medicine. While retaining the acclaimed readability of the main textbook it presents the key information in a format more appropriate for practical clinical work.
- The scope of the contents was carefully selected by a team of junior doctors, emphasising only the topics that will be essential for clinical studies.
- The text draws directly on the depth and breadth of experience of the Davidson’s authors and its International Advisory Board.
Medical students
- Instructions for online access
- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Sir Stanley Davidson (1894–1981)
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Contributors to Davidson’s Principles and Practice of Medicine, 23rd Edition
- List of abbreviations
- Picture credits
- 1. Clinical decision making
- The problem of diagnostic error
- Clinical reasoning
- Clinical skills and decision making
- Use and interpretation of diagnostic tests
- Dealing with uncertainty
- Cognitive biases
- Reducing errors in clinical decision making
- Patient-centred evidence-based medicine and shared decision making
- 2. Clinical therapeutics and prescribing
- Principles of clinical pharmacology
- Adverse outcomes of drug therapy
- Drug regulation and management
- Prescribing in practice
- 3. Poisoning
- General approach to the poisoned patient
- Management of the poisoned patient
- Poisoning by specific pharmaceutical agents
- Drugs of misuse
- Alcohol misuse and dependence
- Chemicals and pesticides
- Envenoming
- 4. Acute medicine and critical illness
- Acute medicine
- Presenting problems in acute medicine
- Identification and assessment of deterioration
- Common presentations of deterioration
- Disorders causing critical illness
- Critical care medicine
- Stabilisation and institution of organ support
- Daily clinical management in intensive care
- Complications and outcomes of critical illness
- 5. Infectious disease
- Principles of infectious disease
- Clinical examination of patients with infectious disease
- Detection of infection
- Reservoirs of infection
- Transmission of infection
- Healthcare associated infections
- Outbreak control
- Immunisation
- Presenting problems in infectious diseases
- Viral infections
- Prion diseases
- Bacterial infections
- Systemic bacterial infections
- Gastrointestinal bacterial infections
- Respiratory bacterial infections
- Bacterial infections with neurological involvement
- Mycobacterial infections
- Rickettsial and related intracellular bacterial infections
- Chlamydial infections
- Protozoal infections
- Intestinal nematodes
- Fungal infections
- Sexually transmitted bacterial infections
- Sexually transmitted viral infections
- HIV infection
- Presenting problems in HIV infection
- Management of HIV
- 6. Clinical biochemistry and metabolic medicine
- Biochemical investigations
- Water and electrolyte homeostasis
- Presenting problems in sodium and water balance
- Water homeostasis
- Potassium homeostasis
- Acid-base homeostasis
- Calcium homeostasis
- Magnesium homeostasis
- Phosphate homeostasis
- Disorders of amino acid metabolism
- Disorders of carbohydrate metabolism
- Lipids and lipoprotein metabolism
- Other biochemical disorders
- The porphyrias
- 7. Nephrology and urology
- Measurement of renal function
- Presenting problems in renal and urinary tract disease
- Clinical examination of the kidney and urinary tract
- Glomerular diseases
- Tubulo-interstitial diseases
- Genetic renal diseases
- Renal vascular diseases
- Renal involvement in systemic disorders
- Acute kidney injury
- Chronic kidney disease
- Renal replacement therapy
- Drugs and the kidney
- Urinary tract infection
- Diseases of the collecting system and ureters
- Tumours of the kidney and urinary tract
- Prostatic disease
- 8. Cardiology
- Presenting problems in cardiovascular disease
- Clinical examination of the cardiovascular system
- Cardiac arrhythmias
- Antiarrhythmic drugs
- Nonpharmacological treatment of arrhythmias
- Coronary artery disease
- Hypertension
- Diseases of the heart valves
- Congenital heart disease
- Diseases of the myocardium
- Diseases of the pericardium
- 9. Respiratory medicine
- Presenting problems in respiratory disease
- Clinical examination of the respiratory system
- Chest pain
- Finger clubbing
- Haemoptysis
- The ‘incidental’ pulmonary nodule
- Obstructive pulmonary diseases
- Infections of the respiratory system
- Respiratory diseases caused by fungi
- Tumours of the bronchus and lung
- Interstitial and infiltrative pulmonary diseases
- Occupational and environmental lung disease
- Pulmonary vascular disease
- Diseases of the upper airway
- Pleural disease
- Diseases of the diaphragm
- Deformities of the chest wall
- 10. Endocrinology
- Major endocrine functions and anatomy
- Clinical examination in endocrine disease
- Presenting problems in endocrine disease
- The thyroid gland
- The reproductive system
- The parathyroid glands
- The adrenal glands
- The endocrine pancreas and GI tract
- The hypothalamus and the pituitary gland
- Diseases affecting multiple endocrine glands
- 11. Diabetes mellitus
- Functional anatomy and physiology
- Clinical examination of the patient with diabetes
- Presenting problems in diabetes mellitus
- Diabetes emergencies
- Management of diabetes
- Management of diabetes in special situations
- Complications of diabetes
- 12. Gastroenterology
- Presenting problems in gastrointestinal disease
- Clinical examination of the gastrointestinal tract
- Disorders of nutrition
- Diseases of the mouth and salivary glands
- Diseases of the oesophagus
- Diseases of the stomach and duodenum
- Diseases of the small intestine
- Inflammatory bowel disease
- Irritable bowel syndrome
- Ischaemic gut injury
- Disorders of the colon and rectum
- Diseases of the peritoneal cavity
- Diseases of the pancreas
- 13. Hepatology
- Clinical examination of the abdomen for liver and biliary disease
- Presenting problems in liver disease
- Cirrhosis
- Portal hypertension
- Infections and the liver
- Alcoholic liver disease
- Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease
- Autoimmune liver and biliary disease
- Liver tumours
- Drugs and the liver
- Inherited liver diseases
- Vascular liver diseases
- Pregnancy and the liver
- Liver transplantation
- Cholestatic and biliary disease
- 14. Haematology and transfusion medicine
- Presenting problems in blood disease
- Blood products and transfusion
- Haematopoietic stem cell transplantation
- Anticoagulant and antithrombotic therapy
- Anaemias
- Haematological malignancies
- Aplastic anaemias
- Myeloproliferative neoplasms
- Bleeding disorders
- 15. Rheumatology and bone disease
- Presenting problems in musculoskeletal disease
- Clinical examination of the musculoskeletal system
- Principles of management of rheumatological disorders
- Osteoarthritis
- Crystal-induced arthritis
- Fibromyalgia
- Bone and joint infections
- Rheumatoid arthritis
- Juvenile idiopathic arthritis
- Spondyloarthropathies
- Autoimmune connective tissue disease
- Vasculitis
- Diseases of bone
- 16. Neurology
- Presenting problems in neurological disease
- Clinical examination of the nervous system
- Functional symptoms
- Stroke
- Headache syndromes
- Epilepsy
- Vestibular disorders
- Sleep disorders
- Neuro-inflammatory diseases
- Paraneoplastic neurological disease
- Neurodegenerative diseases
- Infections of the nervous system
- Intracranial mass lesions and raised intracranial pressure
- Disorders of the spine and spinal cord
- Diseases of peripheral nerves
- Disorders of the neuromuscular junction
- Diseases of muscle
- 17. Medical ophthalmology
- Investigation of visual disorders
- Presenting problems in ophthalmic disease
- Specialist ophthalmological conditions
- 18. Dermatology
- Presenting problems in skin disease
- Clinical examination in skin disease
- Skin tumours
- Common skin infections and infestations
- Acne and rosacea
- Rosacea
- Eczema
- Psoriasis and other erythematous scaly eruptions
- Lichenoid eruptions
- Bullous diseases
- Pigmentation disorders
- Hair disorders
- Nail disorders
- Skin disease in general medicine
- 19. Ageing and disease
- Comprehensive geriatric assessment
- Comprehensive geriatric assessment
- Presenting problems in geriatric medicine
- Rehabilitation
- 20. Oncology
- The 10 hallmarks of cancer
- Clinical examination of the cancer patient
- Environmental and genetic determinants of cancer
- Assessing and investigating a cancer patient
- Presenting problems in oncology
- Emergency complications of cancer
- Metastatic disease
- Therapeutics in oncology
- Specific cancers
- Multidisciplinary teams
- 21. Laboratory reference ranges
- Units
- Laboratory reference ranges in adults
- Index
- Edition: 3
- Published: June 13, 2020
- Imprint: Elsevier
- No. of pages: 888
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN: 9780702078767
- Paperback ISBN: 9780702078750
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J. Alastair Innes
Affiliations and expertise
Consultant Physician, Respiratory Unit, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh; Honorary Reader in Respiratory Medicine, University of Edinburgh, UK