Professional Guide to Signs and Symptoms

A comprehensive manual designed to help health-care professionals recognize and interpret their patients' signs and symptoms. There is alphabetical coverage of more than 300 signs and symptoms of common and uncommon disease indicators, along with over 500 illustrations.

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More than 300 signs and symptoms are listed alphabetically and covered in-depth. Each entry includes an introduction with the definition, description, incidence, significance, and summary of causes; emergency interventions (where appropriate); history and physical examination; medical causes; other causes, such as drugs, herbal medicines, tests, and surgery; special considerations, including complications, comfort measures, tests, and treatments; pediatric pointers; geriatric pointers; and patient counseling. This thoroughly updated edition includes cultural cues, signs and symptoms of emerging diseases, 250 nonspecific and accessory signs and symptoms, alternative medicines that may cause signs and symptoms, and English-Spanish translations. More than 500 illustrations, tables, and flowcharts