The Unofficial Guide to Practical Skills
- 2nd Edition - December 13, 2022
- Imprint: UGTM (Unofficial Guide to Medicine)
- Editors: Zeshan Qureshi, Emily Hotton, Sammie Mak
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 9 3 7 1 9 - 1
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 9 3 7 2 3 - 8
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 9 3 7 2 4 - 5
The unique and award-winning Unofficial Guides series is a collaboration between senior students, junior doctors and specialty experts. This combination of contributors understan… Read more
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Request a sales quoteThe unique and award-winning Unofficial Guides series is a collaboration between senior students, junior doctors and specialty experts. This combination of contributors understands what is essential to excel on your course, in exams and in practice – as well as the importance of presenting information in a clear, fun and engaging way. Packed with hints and tips from those in the know, when you are in a hurry and need a study companion you can trust, reach for an Unofficial Guide.
Designed for medical students, nurses, junior doctors and other healthcare professionals, The Unofficial Guide to Practical Skills contains step-by-step guidance to over 50 core practical procedures. Information is easy to follow and procedures are explained clearly – along with expert practical tips.
This book covers the essential skills you’ll need throughout your course and for the OSCEs. It also provides a succinct, day-to-day reference for those in practice.
- Wide range of procedures covered – more than any other book of its kind
- Accompanying mark schemes and typical exam questions to simulate real-life assessment
- Fully illustrated with over 200 color photos/illustrations
- Model answers so you can check how well you are performing
- Content aligned to the latest GMC/MLA requirements
- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Series Editor Foreword
- Introduction
- Acknowledgement
- Abbreviations and Symbols
- 1. Basic Patient Assessment
- Station 1.1: Heart Rate and Respiratory Rate
- Station 1.2: Oxygen Saturation
- Station 1.3: Blood Pressure
- Station 1.4: Lying and Standing Blood Pressure
- Station 1.5: Ankle Brachial Pressure Index
- Station 1.6: Blood Glucose
- Station 1.7: MRSA Swab
- Questions and Answers for Candidate
- Station 1.8: Body Mass Index
- Station 1.9: Nutritional Assessment
- 2. Blood Tests
- Station 2.1: Venepuncture/Phlebotomy
- Questions and Answers for Candidate
- Station 2.2: Blood Cultures
- Questions and Answers for Candidate
- Station 2.3: Arterial Blood Gas
- Questions and Answers for Candidate
- Station 2.4: Blood Gas Interpretation
- Questions and Answers for Candidate
- 3. Acute Patient Management
- Station 3.1: Immediate Life Support
- Questions and Answers for Candidates
- Station 3.2: Choking
- Questions and Answers for Candidate
- Station 3.3: Sizing and Fitting a Hard Collar
- Questions and Answers for Candidate
- Station 3.4: Airway Management
- Questions and Answers for Candidate
- Station 3.5: Administering Oxygen
- Questions and Answers for Candidate
- Station 3.6: Intravenous Cannulation
- Questions and Answers for Candidate
- Station 3.7: Setting Up a Giving Set
- Questions and Answers for Candidate
- Station 3.8: Blood Transfusion
- Questions and Answers for Candidate
- Station 3.9: ECGs
- Questions and Answers for Candidate
- Station 3.10: Fundoscopy
- Questions and Answers for Candidate
- Station 3.11: Otoscopy
- Station 3.12: Central Venous Lines
- Questions and Answers for Candidate
- 4. Medication Administration
- Station 4.1: Intramuscular Injections
- Station 4.2: Subcutaneous Injections
- Station 4.3: Intradermal Injections
- Station 4.4: Local Anaesthetic Administration
- Station 4.5: Intravenous Drugs
- Station 4.6: Drug Administration Via Nebuliser
- Station 4.7: Operating a Syringe Driver
- 5. Medicine and Surgery
- Station 5.1: Simple Dressing Change
- Questions and Answers For Candidate
- Station 5.2: Spirometry
- Questions and Answers for Candidate
- Station 5.3: Knee Joint Aspiration
- Questions and Answers for Candidate
- Station 5.4: Nasogastric Tube Insertion
- Questions and Answers for Candidate
- Station 5.5: Diagnostic Pleural Tap
- Questions and Answers for Candidate
- Station 5.6: Chest Drain
- Questions and Answers for Candidate
- Station 5.7: Diagnostic Ascitic Tap
- Questions and Answers for Candidate
- Station 5.8: Therapeutic Paracentesis
- Questions and Answers for Candidate
- Station 5.9: Lumbar Puncture
- Questions and Answers for Candidate
- Station 5.10: Proctoscopy
- Document the Procedure
- Questions and Answers for Candidate
- Station 5.11: Instruments
- Questions and Answers for Candidate
- Station 5.12: Suturing
- Questions and Answers for Candidate
- Station 5.13: Surgical Gowning and Gloving
- Questions and Answers for Candidate
- 6. Urology
- Station 6.1: Urinalysis
- Questions and Answers for Candidate
- Station 6.2: Male Urethral Catheterisation
- Questions and Answers for Candidate
- Station 6.3: Female Urethral Catheterisation
- Questions and Answers for Candidate
- Station 6.4: Suprapubic Catheterisation
- Questions and Answers for Candidate
- 7. Paediatrics
- Station 7.1: Peak Flow
- Questions and Answers for Candidate
- Station 7.2: Inhaler Technique
- Questions and Answers for Candidate
- Station 7.3: Preparing Baby Formula Milk
- Questions and Answers for Candidate
- 8. General Skills
- Station 8.1: Hand Washing
- Questions and Answers for Candidate
- Station 8.2: Infection Control
- Questions and Answers for Candidate
- Station 8.3: Manual Handling
- Questions and Answers for Candidate
- Station 8.4: Death Certification
- Questions and Answers for Candidate
- Station 8.5: Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)
- Questions and Answers for Candidate
- Index
- Edition: 2
- Published: December 13, 2022
- Imprint: UGTM (Unofficial Guide to Medicine)
- No. of pages: 232
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN: 9780323937191
- eBook ISBN: 9780323937238
- eBook ISBN: 9780323937245
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Zeshan Qureshi
Zeshan Qureshi is a Paediatric Registrar, London Deanery, UK
Affiliations and expertise
Paediatric Registrar, London Deanery, UKEH
Emily Hotton
Emily Hotton, MBChB (Dist), BSc (Hons) PhD, MRCOG, is an obstetric registrar and a leader in medical education, teaching on paid courses and within university and hospitals. She has contributed to four textbooks, including editing Unofficial Guide to Practical Skills, and nine peer reviewed journal articles.
Affiliations and expertise
Women’s and Children’s Research, Southmead Hospital; Translational Health Sciences, University of Bristol, Bristol, UKSM
Sammie Mak
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Affiliations and expertise
Junior Doctor, NHS England, Manchester, UK