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The Right Test: A Physician's Guide to Laboratory Medicine

The Right Test: A Physician's Guide to Laboratory Medicine


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The new, 3rdEdition of this popular resource summarizes the best recommendations for laboratory testing for more than 90 per cent of patient-care medical problems. The book helps readers to use the most appropriate laboratory tests to achieve accurate diagnoses at lower costs.

Table of Contents:
Introduction. Laboratory Testing By Physicians. Medical Decision-Making Approach to Laboratory Testing. Calculating the Effects of Laboratory Tests on Medical Decisions. Common Medical Decisions that Require Laboratory Testing. Recommendations for the Useof Laboratory Tests. Evidence-Based Medicine. Changing the Way Physicians Use Laboratory Tests. Format for Discussing Medical Problems in This Book. Additional Considerations. Screening. Wellness Screening and Case Finding. Unexplained Abnormal Test Result. Pregnancy Testing. Pap Smear and Cervical Cancer. Serum Cholesterol and Coronary Heart Disease. Occult Fecal Blood Testing and Colorectal Cancer. Digital Rectal Examination, Prostate-Specific Antigen, And Prostate Cancer. Alcohol Abuse. Drug Abuse. Hemochromatosis. Cancer Screening and Monitoring. General and Miscellaneous Problems. Human Immunodeficiency Virus Infection and Aids. Lyme Disease. Sexually Transmitted Disease. Acute Food Poisoning. Cerebrospinal Fluid Analysis. Synovial Fluid Analysis. Arthritis. Cardiovascular Diseases. Acute Myocardial Infarction. Congestive Heart Failure. Hypertension. Digoxin Monitoring. Respiratory Diseases. Acute Pharyngitis. Allergic Rhinitis. Acute Bacterial Sinusitis. Community-Acquired Pneumonia. Pulmonary Embolism. Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease. Pleural Fluid Analysis. Gastrointestinal Diseases. Acute Abdominal Pain. Acute Diarrhea. Intestinal Malabsorption. Ascites. Liver Diseases. Jaundice, Abnormal Liver Function Tests, And Liver Failure. Acute Viral Hepatitis. Fatty Liver and Alcoholic Hepatitis. Acute Nonviral, Nonalcoholic Hepatitis. Chronic Hepatitis. Cirrhosis. Cholestasis and Obstructive Liver Disease. Urinary Tract Diseases. The Urinalysis. Glucosuria. Proteinuria. Hematuria and Colored Urine. Urinary Tract Infection in Women. Acute Renal Failure. Endocrine and Metabolic Diseases. Hyperthyroidism and Hipothyroidism. Diabetes Mellitus. Gestational Diabetes Mellitus. True Hypoglycemia and the Idiopathic Postprandial Syndrome. Cushings Syndrome. Adrenal Insufficiency. Hematological Diseases. Classifying Blood Cell Disorders By a Complete Blood Count with Differential. Microcytic Anemia Without Reticulocytosis. Macrocytic Anemia Without Reticulocytosis. Normocytic Anemia Without Reticulocytosis. Anemia with Reticulocytosis. Classifying Bleeding Disorders By Laboratory Tests. Acid-Base, Fluid Volume, Osmolality, And Electrolyte Diseases. Classifying Acid-Base, Fluid Volume, Osmolality, And Electrolytes By Laboratory Tests. Acid-Base Diseases. Hypernatremia. Hyponatremia. Hyperkalemia. Hypokalemia. Hypercalcemia. Hypocalcemia. Hyperphosphatemia. Hypophosphatemia. Hypermagnesemia. Hypomagnesemia.

Review :
Review of Previous Edition: "Carries on the tradition of being a user-friendly...guide to laboratory medicine...An extremely practical manual for those who deal with common problems in inpatient or outpatient medicine." -The Journal of the American Board of Family Practice


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780721651231
  • Publisher: Elsevier Health Sciences
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Height: 216 mm
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 485 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0721651232
  • Publisher Date: 15 Oct 1998
  • Edition: Revised edition
  • Language: English
  • Sub Title: A Physician's Guide to Laboratory Medicine
  • Width: 140 mm


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