Medical Insights: From Classroom to Patient

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ISBN: 9780763752842 | 0763752843
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Copyright: 9/16/2009

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Medical Insights: From Classroom to Patient is a quick reference to assist medical professionals and students on how to decipher medical information. Many texts present materials in a voluminous and disjointed manner. This guide takes disparate medical information and puts it together in a way that readers can utilize to quickly make important clinical connections. Topics are presented in a clinically relevant and easy-to-use format. This is an ideal resource for all medical professionals and students.

Medical Brevities	p. 1
A Deficiency in a Hematinic Agent May Cause illness While the Blood Count is Still Normal	p. 1
Not All Dementia is Irreversible. The Clinician Must Always Look for a Treatable Cause of the Cognitive Disorder	p. 4
Remember the "Acey-Ducey" Rule: In Paired Structures in the Body, Recurrent Involvement of One of the Pair Suggests a "Local" Disorder Whereas Involvement of Both Strongly Suggests Systemic Disease	p. 5
Young Adults Can Suffer Acute Stroke. In These Patients, You Must Consider Patent Foramen Ovale, Factor V Leiden Mutation, and Antiphospholipid Antibody Syndrome as Causative Factors	p. 8
Consider a Metabolic Disorder in Any Patient Who Presents with Psychiatric Disturbances, in Many Cases, the Emotional Manifestations Are Very Early Signs of the Underlying Metabolic Abnormality	p. 12
Always Seek a Common Denominator in Medicine	p. 15
Flushing	p. 35
Heart Rate is Not the Most Important Element in Cardiopulmonary Fitness	p. 38
Think of the Chronology of a Heart Murmur	p. 38
Make it Easier to Remember	p. 40
The Most Important Word in Diagnosis: and	p. 45
And is the Most Important Element in Medical Diagnosis	p. 45
Fatigue and	p. 46
Stroke and Fever	p. 56
Heart Failure and Bounding Pulses	p. 58
Dyspnea and	p. 60
Clubbing and	p. 61
Hyperglycemia and	p. 64
Eosinophilia and	p. 66
Conclusion	p. 67
MED 1C and a Word on Drug Interactions	p. 69
MED 1C	p. 69
Drug interactions	p. 75
Chapter 4	p. 79
It May Not Be Irritable Bowel Syndrome	p. 79
Abdominal Pain May Arise in the Chest, Not the Abdomen	p. 80
Bronchial Asthma and the Thyroid Gland	p. 83
"All That Wheezes is Not Asthma"	p. 84
Serum C-Reactive Protein and Proteinuria	p. 86
Bilateral Hilar Nodes	p. 88
Syncope with Effort in the Young Patient	p. 89
is it Serious?	p. 93
Aortic Valve Stenosis and Hypertrophic Obstructive Cardiomyopathy	p. 98
Bile Salts and Bile Pigments	p. 99
Macrocytosis and Megaloblastosis	p. 101
Neurologic Symptoms	p. 102
The Diagnosis is Stroke	p. 103
Circumoral Paresthesias	p. 108
Atrial Fibrillation and a Regular Pulse	p. 109
Peripheral Lymphadenopathy in Adults	p. 111
Cough in the Cardiac Patient	p. 112
Angina Pectoris, Transient Ischemic Attack, and Floaters	p. 113
Atrial Fibrillation: Why is it So Hard to Control the Ventricular Rate?	p. 114
Age Matters in Disease Presentation	p. 116
Pulmonary Infarction and Hepatic Infarction: Why are Infarctions of the Lung and Liver So Uncommon?	p. 117
Pulse Pressure: A New Look at an Old Sign	p. 118
Diplopia	p. 120
Neuropathies of Pregnancy	p. 122
Bicuspid Aortic Valve and Dissection of the Aorta	p. 123
Petechiae, Purpura, and Ecchymosis	p. 124
The Patient with a Diffuse Rash: An Important Clue to Diagnosis	p. 126
Always and Never	p. 129
Always	p. 129
Never	p. 151
Linkages	p. 165
Acid-Base Balance	p. 165
Ptosis	p. 169
Peripheral Edema	p. 173
Dyspnea	p. 178
The Smartest Answer to a Medical Question: "It Depends"	p. 183
What Is the Proper Dose of Nitroglycerin?	p. 183
What is the Significance of Atrial Premature Beats?	p. 185
What is the Proper Dose of a Diuretic in the Treatment of Heart Failure?	p. 187
is Jugular (Central) Venous Pressure a Good Indicator of Hypovolemia?	p. 189
What are the Physical Examination Sings in Mitral Value Regurgitation?	p. 191
What is the Duration of Anticoagulant Therapy in a Patient Who Has Deep Vein Thrombosis?	p. 194
What Are the Electrocardiographic Findings in a Patient Who Has Angina Pectoris?	p. 195
Does Carotid Artery Atherosclerosis Cause a Bruit?	p. 197
What is the Significance of Hypotension?	p. 198
Do Patients Who Have Infective Endocarditis Develop Clubbing?	p. 200
In a Patient Who Has Coarctation of the Aorta, is the Blood Pressure Equal in the Arms?	p. 201
Clinical Potpourri	p. 203
All Patients with Obstructive Sleep Apnea Snore, but Not All Patients Who Snore Have Sleep Apnea	p. 203
The Frequency of Attacks of Angina Pectoris Does Not Correlate with the Degree of Anatomic Stenosis in Coronary Atherosclerosis	p. 203
Jaundice May Be Due to Elevation of Either Serum "Direct" (Conjugated) or "Indirect" (Unconjugated) Bilirubin Levels	p. 203
Iron Deficiency is an Important Cause of Restless Legs Syndrome	p. 204
When Reviewing Laboratory Data on a Patient, Always Calculate the Blood Urea Nitrogen: Serum Creatinine Ratio	p. 204
The Patient Who Has Polycystic Ovary Syndrome Looks Like a Patient Who Has Cushing's Disease	p. 205
Diabetes Mellitus is the Most Common Cause of Bilateral Loss of Knee Deep Tendon Reflexes	p. 205
Antibodies are Present in the Serum of Patients Who Have Hypothyroidism Due to Hashimoto's Disease and in the Hyperthyroid Patient Who Has Graves' Disease	p. 205
Headaches and	p. 206
In Food Poisoning, Think of the Magic Numbers 40° and 150°F	p. 206
Examination of the Dehydrated Patient May Fool the Clinician; the Key is in Understanding Osmotic Pressure	p. 206
Be Aware That the Patient Who Develops Bilateral Carpal Tunnel Syndrome Most Likely Has an Underlying Systemic Disease	p. 207
Electrocardiography: Bundle Branch Blocks	p. 207
Paradoxical Pulse: The Most Common Cause is Not Pericardial Tamponade	p. 208
Gynecomastia	p. 208
Arterial Blood Gas Determination	p. 209
When Encountering a New Patient Who Has Hypertension, Always Check for Radial-Femoral Artery Pulse Lag	p. 210
Butterfly Rash	p. 210
Weakness	p. 211
Index	p. 213
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