Red Flags II

Erscheinungsjahr 2009
ISBN: 978-0-443-06914-7
Verlag: Elsevier Churchill Livingstone

Buch, Englisch, 256 Seiten, Format (B × H): 110 mm x 155 mm, Gewicht: 219 g

The perfect companion to the successful RED FLAGS: A GUIDE TO IDENTIFYING SERIOUS SPINAL PATHOLOGY by Sue Greenhalgh and James Selfe, this new pocketbook guides the practitioner through solving serious spinal pathologies. RED FLAGS II expands on some of the concepts outlined in the first book and gives advice on appropriate investigations. It retains a strong clinical focus through the use of multiple case histories of real patients with serious pathology of the spine. Readers are given the opportunity to utilise clinical reasoning processes as they work through these case histories. - Updated hierarchical list of Red Flags
- Summary identifying key findings Red Flags and Red Herrings
- Multiple real patient case histories - Management pathways
- Presentation of secondary cases

Zielgruppe

Physiotherapists, especially those who work as autonomous first contact assessors; recent graduates

Autoren/Hrsg.

Greenhalgh, Sue

Selfe, James

Fachgebiete

• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Physiotherapie, Physikalische Therapie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1 Clinical Reasoning2 Evidence Base for Red Flags3 Extra-pulmonary Spinal Tuberculosis4 Cauda Equina Syndrome5 Cancer6 Serious Pathology Fractures7 Red Herrings8 Investigations in Serious Pathology of the Spine