Field Guide to Bedside Diagnosis, Second edition enables physicians to navigate from the patient's symptoms and presenting signs to the diagnosis.

The book covers 139 chief complaints and signs and is organized to parallel the diagnostic reasoning process:

• a differential overview of probable causes
• a diagnostic approach for each differential
• the specific clinical findings that point to diagnosis

A collection of 192 full-color illustrations show diagnostically important observable signs. This edition includes thoroughly updated diagnostic approaches and quick-access Evidence-Based Medicine Physical Diagnosis tables indicating sensitivity, specificity, and likelihood ratios for findings.

Contents

Section I: General/Constitutional

1. Color Phenomena
2. Diaphoresis/Night Sweats
3. Fatigue
4. Fever of Unknown Origin
5. Involuntary Weight Loss
6. Lymphadenopathy
7. Multiple Somatic Complaints
8. Obesity

Section II: Heart/Vascular

9. Acute Nonpleuritic Chest Pain
10. Anemia
11. Arterial Pulse Variants
12. Bradycardia
13. Cardiomegaly/Congestive Heart Failure
14. Carotid Bruit
15. Claudication
16. Continuous Murmur
17. Cyanosis
18. Diastolic Murmur
19. Discrete Heart Sounds
20. Edema
21. Hypertension
22. Jugular Pulse Variants
23. Orthostatic Hypotension
24. Palpitations/Tachycardia
25. Shock
26. Systolic Murmur
27. Unilateral Leg Swelling

Section III: Lungs/Chest

28. Acute Cough
29. Acute Dyspnea
30. Breast Mass/Discharge
31. Chronic Cough
32. Chronic Dyspnea
33. Gynecomastia
34. Hemoptysis
35. Hiccup
36. Patterned Breathing
37. Pleuritic Chest Pain
38. Pneumonia Variants
39. Rales
40. Wheezing

Section IV: Abdomen

41. Abdominal Distension
42. Abdominal/Pelvic Mass
43. Acute Abdominal Pain
44. Acute Diarrhea
45. Chronic Diarrhea
46. Chronic/Recurrent Abdominal Pain
47. Constipation
48. Dysphagia/Heartburn
49. Gastrointestinal Bleeding
50. Hepatomegaly
51. Jaundice
52. Loss of Appetite
53. Nausea/Vomiting
54. Palpable Spleen
55. Rectal Pain

Part V: Genitourinary

56. Anuria/Oliguria
57. Dysuria
58. Erectile Dysfunction
59. Flank Pain
60. Genital Ulcer
61. Hematuria
62. Infertility
63. Inguinal/Femoral Swelling
64. Polyuria
65. Prostate Abnormality
66. Proteinuria
67. Scrotal Pain/Swelling
68. Secondary Amenorrhea
69. Urinary Incontinence
70. Vaginal Bleeding
71. Vaginal Discharge

Section VI: Musculoskeletal/Extremities

72. Acute Knee Pain
73. Acute Monoarticular Arthritis
74. Ankle/Foot Pain
75. Arthritis/Dermatitis
76. Elbow Pain
77. Hip Pain
78. Low Back Pain
79. Muscle Cramps
80. Nail Phenomena/Clubbing
81. Neck Pain
82. Periarticular Pain
83. Polyarticular Arthritis
84. Raynaud's Phenomenon
85. Shoulder Pain
86. Wrist/Hand Pain

Section VII: Neurologic/Psychiatric

87. Amnesia
88. Anxiety
89. Aphasia/Dysarthria
90. Ataxia
91. Coma
92. Deep Tendon Reflex Abnormalities
93. Delirium/Hallucinations
94. Dementia
95. Depression
96. Diplopia/Nystagmus
97. Dizziness
98. Headache
99. Motor Weakness
100. Peripheral Neuropathy
101. Radicular Pain/Dysesthesias
102. Seizures
103. Sleep Disorders
104. Stroke Syndromes
105. Syncope
106. Tremor/Involuntary Movements

Section VIII: Skin

107. Alopecia
108. Exanthem
109. Flushing
110. Hypo/Hyperpigmentation
111. Leg Ulcer
112. Papules/Nodules
113. Patterned Erythema
114. Pruritus
115. Purpura/Petechiae/Excessive Bleeding
116. Scaling Rash
117. Telangiectasias/Angiomas
118. Urticaria/Angioedema
119. Vesicles/Bullae/Pustules
120. Visible Paraneoplastic Phenomena

Section IX: Head/Neck

121. Anisocoria
122. Ear Pain/Discharge
123. Epistaxis
124. Exophthalmos
125. Eye Pain
126. Facial/Dental/Temporomandibular Pain
127. Hearing Loss
128. Hoarseness
129. Nasal Congestion/Discharge
130. Neck Mass/Thyroid Enlargement
131. Neck Pain
132. Oral Lesions
133. Ptosis
134. Red Eye
135. Retinal Phenomena
136. Sore Throat
137. Thyroid Nodule
138. Tinnitus
139. Visual Disturbance

Index
Color Plates

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