Essential Primary Care

Essential Primary Care

Buchan, Jessica; Blythe, Andrew

John Wiley and Sons Ltd

05/2016

400

Mole

Inglês

9781118867617

15 a 20 dias

1100

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contributors viii

Foreword ix

Preface x

How to use your textbook xi

About the companion website xii

Part 1: The key features of primary care

1 The structure and organisation of primary care 3
Andrew Blythe

2 The GP consultation 10
Jessica Buchan

3 Making a diagnosis 22
Barbara Laue

4 Prescribing 30
Andrew Blythe

5 The interface with secondary care 42
Sarah Jahfar

6 The everyday ethics of primary care 50
Trevor Thompson

Part 2: Healthy living and disease prevention

7 Behaviour change 59
Jessica Buchan

8 Alcohol and drug misuse 68
Andrew Blythe

9 Preventing cardiovascular disease 77
Andrew Blythe

10 Caring for people with learning disabilities 85
Andrew Blythe

Part 3: Common presenting problems

11 Tiredness 95
Andrew Blythe

Childhood

12 Child health in primary care 111
Jessica Buchan

13 Managing the feverish and ill child in primary care 120
Alastair Hay, Lucy Jenkins and Jessica Buchan

14 Managing common conditions in infancy 134
Jessica Buchan

15 Managing chronic conditions in childhood 139
Lucy Jenkins, Alastair Hay, Matthew Ridd and Jessica Buchan

16 Teenage and young?]adult health 147
Jessica Buchan and David Kessler

Early adulthood

17 Respiratory tract infections 157
Lucy Jenkins

18 Low back pain 163
Jessica Buchan

19 Heartburn and dyspepsia 170
Jessica Buchan

20 Diarrhoea and rectal bleeding 177
Andrew Blythe

21 Common skin conditions 184
Matthew Ridd

22 Headache 194
Andrew Blythe

23 Fits, faints and funny turns 201
Andrew Blythe

24 Depression, anxiety and self?]harm 210
David Kessler

25 Sexual health and dysuria 219
Lucy Jenkins

26 Menstrual problems, contraception and termination of pregnancy 231
Jessica Buchan

27 Pregnancy 241
Jessica Buchan

28 Domestic violence and abuse 254
Gene Feder

Middle and old age

29 Cardiovascular disease 265
Andrew Blythe

30 Breathlessness 275
Jessica Buchan

31 Joint pains and stiffness 287
Andrew Blythe

32 Urinary problems and prostate disease 294
Simon Thornton

33 The menopause 302
Jessica Buchan

34 Multimorbidity and polypharmacy 307
Polly Duncan and Andrew Blythe

35 Falls and fragility fractures 314
Andrew Blythe

36 Visual and hearing loss 322
Andrew Blythe

37 Dementia 331
Andrew Blythe

Part 4: Cancer

38 Spotting patients with cancer 343
Andrew Blythe

39 Looking after patients with cancer 352
Andrew Blythe

Part 5: Palliative care and death

40 Palliative care and death 361
Andrew Blythe

Index 371
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