Kumar and Clark's Clinical Medicine

11. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-0-443-12594-2
Verlag: Elsevier LTD

Buch, Englisch, 1757 Seiten, Format (B × H): 217 mm x 275 mm, Gewicht: 3776 g

The go-to textbook for medical students

Designed to be as easy to understand as it is comprehensive, Kumar & Clark's Clinical Medicine is the definitive guide for medical students and doctors in training.

Revised and updated to reflect the structure of modern medical care, an all-new Acute Medicine chapter focuses on the initial, problem-based assessment of the unwell patient. Chapters on Medical Specialties explore the diagnosis and management of patients with chronic disease across the spectrum of systems-based disorders. Sections on The Practice of Medicine, Medicine and the world and Medicine Throughout Life explore medicine in its wider context, addressing the health needs of the population as well as specific patient groups.

This book has been the must-have text for medical students and doctors in training for over 35 years. The 11th edition has been fully updated and restructured to suit the needs of a contemporary audience. - A unified chapter format makes the book easy to read and navigate
- Comprehensive content includes clinical skills, basic medical sciences, and individual conditions
- Succinct notes on clinical emergencies, differential diagnosis, and practical procedures
- Fully revised and updated throughout
- Increased representation of diverse populations including dermatological disease in different skin tones
- New chapters include: - Acute Medicine
- Radiology
- Anaesthesia and Perioperative Medicine
- Stroke Medicine
- General Hospital Psychiatry
- Obesity
- Young Adult Medicine
- Sex and Gender in Medicine

- Ideal reference for those preparing for the MLA and other clinical exams – MLA-required conditions highlighted in the Index to aid efficient navigation
- Additional online videos and self-assessment questions to test knowledge retention and supplement learning
- An enhanced eBook version is included with purchase. The eBook allows you to access all the text, figures and references, with the ability to search, customise your content, make notes and highlights, and have content read aloud

Autoren/Hrsg.

Randall, David

Booth, John

Wiles, Kate

Fachgebiete

• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Klinische und Innere Medizin Innere Medizin

Inhaltsverzeichnis

PART 1 THE PRACTICE OF MEDICINE
1. The art of being a doctor
2. Clinical communication
3. Medical ethics
4. Evidence-based practice
5. Human genetics
6. Immunity
7. Therapeutics and prescribing
8. Radiology

PART 2 MEDICINE AND THE WORLD
9. Public health
10. Global and planetary health

PART 3 ACUTE AND EMERGENCY MEDICINE
11. Acute medicine
12. Sepsis and the treatment of bacterial infection
13. Critical care medicine
14. Anaesthesia and perioperative medicine
15. Toxicology
16. Environmental medicine

PART 4 MEDICAL SPECIALTIES
17. Cardiology
18. Hypertension
19. Lipid and metabolic disorders
20. Respiratory medicine
21. Ear, nose, and throat
22. Gastroenterology
23. Hepatology
24. Biliary tract and pancreatic disease
25. Nutrition
26. Kidney and urinary tract disease
27. Water balance, fluids, and electrolytes
28. Neurology
29. Stroke medicine
30. General hospital psychiatry
31. Ophthalmology
32. Rheumatology
33. Bone disease
34. Endocrinology
35. Diabetes mellitus
36. Metabolic disease
37. Obesity
38. Haematology
39. Haematological oncology
40. Venous thromboembolic disease
41. Malignant disease
42. Infectious disease
43. Sexually transmitted infections
44. Human immunodeficiency virus
45. Dermatology

PART 5 MEDICINE THROUGHOUT LIFE
46. Young adult medicine
47. Sex and gender in medicine
48. Obstetric medicine
49. Medicine of the older adult
50. Palliative care and symptom control

Über Autor(innen)

Booth, John
John Booth, Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer, Barts and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry, QMUL; Consultant Physician and Nephrologist, Barts Health NHS Trust, London, United Kingdom

Randall, David
David Randall is Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer, Barts and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry, QMUL; Consultant Physician and Nephrologist, Barts Health NHS Trust, London, UK.

Wiles, Kate
Kate Wiles, Honorary Senior Lecturer, Wolfson Institute of Population Health, Queen Mary University of London; Consultant Obstetric Physician, Department of Women's Health, Barts Health NHS Trust, London, UK.