Churchill's Pocketbook of Orthopaedics, Trauma and Rheumatology + Online Access

Description

Churchill's Pocketbook of Orthopaedics, Trauma and Rheumatology offers a practical guide to these three combined disciplines in a handy pocketbook format and is ideal for medical students, junior doctors and trainees. The book is perfect for clinical placements in orthopaedics, emergency medicine, rheumatology and general practice, as well as during the undergraduate musculoskeletal anatomy course.

Key Features

• The book guides the reader through effective history taking, patient examination, and the selection and interpretation of routine investigations.
• There are sections on anatomy, paediatrics and trauma assessment, including pre- and post-operative care and complications, together with a comprehensive section on the common medications used in all three specialties.
• The book will help improve a reader’s diagnostic skills and inform about current treatment options

Contents

Anatomy
History and examination
Investigations
Trauma, injury classification and perioperative care
Rheumatology
Regional orthopaedics and trauma
Paediatric orthopaedics and rheumatology
Therapeutics

Authors

By Andrew D. Duckworth, MB ChB BSc(Hons) MRCSEd MSc, Specialty Registrar (StR) and Clinical Research Fellow, Edinburgh Orthopaedic Trauma Unit, Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK; Daniel Porter, BSc(Hons), MD, FRCS(Tr & Orth) , Director of Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, First Affiliated Hospital of Tsinghua University Hospital, Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery, Tsinghua University Medical Centre, Beijing, China and Stuart H. Ralston, MD FRCP FMedSci FRSE, Arthritis Research UK Professor of Rheumatology Centre for Genomic and Experimental Medicine, Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, Western General Hospital Edinburgh, UK