This case-based approach to decision-making in respiratory care offers a thorough introduction to the processes involved in developing critical diagnostic thinking, followed by realistic scenarios that allow readers to put critical thinking skills into practice. Readers learn how to use information from the patient's history and physical examination to arrive at a differential diagnosis. The book presents cases typical of outpatient, inpatient non-ICU, and ICU clinical settings. Each chapter begins with a clinical vignette that poses an important respiratory problem, accompanied by a description of the patient's history and physical examination, and reviews the common and uncommon causes of the patient's symptoms. Using specific features of the patient's history and physical examination, the reader must analyze the likelihood of a specific cause of the symptom. Critical Diagnostic Thinking in Respiratory Care lays the foundation for clinical practice, taking the reader beyond theory and into the real world of patient care.
<li>Organisation by symptons - easier to is a unique feature which greatly helps the clinician to carry out a physical examination</li>
<li>Case-based approach - allows learning through real-life cases to evoke a broad differential diagnosis</li>
<li>Background chapter - to teach the techniques of gathering and analysing data from the patient history and physical examination in order to form a diagnosis</li>
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Differential Diagnosis Boxes - a unique feature - for easy reference</li>
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Interpreting Signs &amp; Symptoms Tables - a table that breaks down the symptom into possible causes, mechanisms by which the symptom occurs and suggestive clinical features</li>
<li>All Chapters follow the same organisational format for ease of use</li>
<li>Key words are shortlisted at the start of each chapter, which helps to guide the reader to get the most out of the Chapter</li>
<li>The text is written at a level that is easy to understand for all health care students.</li>

Critical Diagnostic Thinking in Respiratory Care: A Case-Based Approach

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