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This book is a comprehensive, accurate and up-to-date practical guide to the use of point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) in critical care. It features detailed descriptions of how to perform a POCUS examination plus practical information on using POCUS in the assessment of shock, trauma and cardiac arrest.

A new and updated edition of the essential guide for GPs wishing to establish a minor surgery service for their patients. Now covers accreditation, diagnosis and management of skin lesions, and long-term contraception.

Catch Up Compendium, 3rd edition, contains well over 600 pages of the core background material essential for any student studying courses in the biological and biomedical sciences.

This second edition of Catch Up Maths & Stats brings students up to speed with the subject quickly and easily. Many students begin life and medical science degrees with far less mathematical knowledge than they need - and they struggle as a result. Catch Up Maths & Stats helps plug this knowledge gap.

A practical guide for any GP or GP trainee considering a portfolio career. It's packed full of advice and tips to help you get started and features interviews with, and stories from, GPs who have carved out successful portfolio careers for themselves.

All the core knowledge you need at medical school in one place! Now mapped to the MLA curriculum. Clinical Specialties contains the core information on: Community-based medicine; Geriatric medicine; Gynaecology; Obstetrics; Paediatrics; Psychiatry; Dermatology; ENT; Ophthalmology; Anaesthetics; Palliative care.

Eureka: Neurology and Neurosurgery 2e is an innovative book for medical students that fully integrates core science, clinical medicine and surgery. The Eureka series of books are designed to be a 'one stop shop': they contain all the key information you need to know to succeed in your studies and pass your exams.

Essential Examination 4e is a bestselling text for students in medicine and related subjects. It is particularly suitable for medical students preparing for OSCEs and those learning to examine patients, but is also very popular with Paramedic Science, PA, ANP and ACP students.

Clinical Evidence Made Easy, 2e will enable healthcare workers in all fields to understand and implement the results from clinical trials, clinical journals and other data sources with confidence.

An easy to access guide to help assessment of symptoms and signs of lesions within and around the mouth.

A practical guide for GPs, practice nurses and out-of-hours workers with a practical guide to what is required when undertaking triage or consultations on the phone.

Concise, practical guidance for non-specialists

A concise handbook containing the latest practical guidance on all common contraceptive methods. This third edition brings this established resource fully up to date. It is the ideal practical reference guide for GPs and other healthcare professionals concerned with contraceptive provision.

Dermatoscopy and Skin Cancer is a handbook to help dermatologists, dermatoscopists and GPs easilydifferentiate between benign and malignant tumours. With over 450 high quality images and two easy to follow algorithms, readers will be able to confidently diagnose skin lesions early and with great precision.

Acute Medicine 3e is a current and concise guide to hospital emergency medicine for registrars, junior doctors and medical students working on the wards. It's not just a list of instructions but contains detailed pathophysiology and useful clinical pearls.

A full-colour compendium of all the key diagrams, tables and equations pertinent to anaesthesia. This is the first book to combine all of these illustrations in one volume; as such it provides an essential learning resource for candidates preparing for the FRCA exams.

This book offers a thorough explanation of the principles of clinical research, alongside a wide range of worked examples which show how these principles are applied in practice.

This book offers simple practical advice on how to manage the stress and exhaustion that often come with working in primary care. The authors show how making small changes in key life areas can have a surprisingly significant impact on mood and can help improve our wellbeing, all in 10 minutes a day.

Doctors and other healthcare professionals need to be able to impart bad news well. This book provides practical guidance to create a framework for discussions with the patient and their relatives, and will help doctors learn how to handle what is perceived as a particularly stressful part of the job.

A concise overview of the common dermatological conditions most likely to present in general medicine Dermatology Made Easy, second edition will help the reader diagnose, test and treat skin conditions quickly and accurately.

Covers the most common conditions seen in an out-of-hours primary care or urgent medical care setting.Urgent and Out-of-Hours Primary Care provides practical guidance on the diagnosis and management of the acute medical conditions seen most commonly in an out-of-hours setting. Covers over 200 acute medical conditions commonly encountered when working in an urgent and primary care settingColour photographs provide the reader with further important information on assessing patients presenting with acute medical conditionsKey 'red flag' features are highlighted in boxesThe latest guidance and prescribing information is providedUses a consistent approach: each condition features discussions of presentation, assessment and managementOffers practical guidance on how to use telephone triage, video consultations and home visits effectivelyAssumes access to basic diagnostic aids onlyProvides differential diagnoses by symptomIndicates when to refer to hospital and when to order an emergency ambulanceThis book is aimed at GPs, GP trainees, doctors, medical students, nurses, paramedics, pharmacists and other healthcare professionals involved in providing urgent and out-of-hours primary care to patients.

Three complete mock exams, with answers, including the new-style CRQsCRQs and SBAs for the Final FRCA combines CRQ (constructed response questions) with SBA (single best answer) questions to accurately mimic the structure and content of the new-style final FRCA exam.The book is split into three mock exams, each comprising:12 CRQ with 60 SBA questionsdetailed explanatory answersuseful references to articles to allow readers to improve their knowledgean indication as to the degree of difficulty of each question.The book is ideal for all candidates preparing to sit the final FRCA.

This new edition has been completely revised to take in all the NICE, ESV and ESVS guidelines that have been updated over the last 5 years. It covers all the cardiology a medical student needs to know.

Authentic cases to help prepare students for clinical practice!The cases presented in this updated edition cover the fields of medicine, surgery, obstetrics and gynaecology, paediatrics and psychiatry. They will help to improve clinical decision-making, clinical knowledgeand patient management.

Patients with mental health issues present frequently in primary care and their consultations are often more challenging and time-consuming than those involving physical illness. For many patients there remains a significant stigma associated with mental ill-health and overcoming this adds further complexity to the consultation.Improving the Mental Health Consultation provides a simple 'short circuit' tool to help GPs and other healthcare professionals to explain mental health problems simply and effectively to their patients. The tool is straightforward, easy to convey within the confines of a 10-minute consultation and extremely effective in helping to break down the stigma that patients often feel.The tool has been developed and refined during over ten years of consultations in primary care. The detailed explanations of how to use the tool during the consultation, along with the extensive case studies, will help you to improve your mental health consultations and so help your patients deal better with their diagnosis. From anxiety to OCD and chronic fatigue to fibromyalgia, the book also provides detailed coverage of diagnosis and classification using ICD-11 and DSM-IV, and management using the latest NICE guidelines.

Simple, step-by-step full-colour instructions on how to draw, learn and interpret the anatomy you need to know as a medical student.

We hate to break it to you but graduating from medical school and becoming a doctor does not guarantee you a jaw-dropping career. However, with help from this book you can unearth exciting opportunities, enhance your employability and maximise your chances of achieving the ultimate career satisfaction!Whether you are a sixth-form student who has just received an offer to study medicine or a junior doctor looking to take the next step towards your chosen speciality, this book can be used to help you accomplish your career goals. Whichever career path you want to take, and even if you want to work abroad, the information in this book will be relevant to you and it will give you a head start against the competition. It may also help you decide which career path to take! Have a read and set yourself on a pathway to professional enlightenment. Pre-publication reviews:Paediatrics trainee:"e;Having had experience of trying to research many of the topics covered in this guide, I can wholeheartedly say that it is challenging to find what you are looking for. I would have benefitted massively from such a guide had it been available to me sooner."e;Emergency medicine trainee:"e;Many of the topics in this guide I was entirely unaware of until well into foundation training. There is no other resource with all of this information in one place, which I feel will give its readers a massive advantage."e;Foundation year 1 doctor:"e;This is the first book I have come across that tackles the issues of how to progress in medicine once you have graduated. The order of the chapters is very logical. The syntax was very easy to read, without lots of jargon. This guide has answered a lot of questions I have been struggling to answer!"e;5th year medical student - Liverpool:"e;This guide is exactly what I and countless medical students need. It has really helped me to understand the whole recruitment system and how to plan ahead before I miss certain opportunities. I have learnt so much from reading this guide."e;4th year medical student - Oxford:"e;This guide allows medical students to be more informed about career planning. Particularly, the different steps and different opportunities that are available."e;3rd year medical student - Leicester:"e;The information provided is academically sound and very relevant. The text is very clear to read and easy to follow. The authors have done exceptionally well."e;