This text presents a comprehensive approach to physical examination that is appropriate for all health care disciplines (nursing, medical, chiropractic, and allied health). Chapter organization of physical examination content is based on a body systems approach. The fourth edition includes new chapters on nutrition, mental status, and critical thinking; a new feature that highlights differential diagnosis content; 150 new illustrations (1,200 total), most in full-color; and new appendixes featuring a sports pre-participation evaluation guide and nutrition screening forms. A CD for students with a "toolbox" of interactive learning activities is included FREE! * Thoroughly revised and updated content throughout text. * Uses consistent chapter organization to provide easy access to information and facilitate student learning: Anatomy and physiology, review of related history, examination techniques and findings, and common abnormalities. * Features 1200 illustrations that visually emphasize normal anatomy and physiology, the key steps in physical examination, and identification of common abnormalities. * Supports a lifespan approach to physical examination by clustering age-related variations by age group at the end of each section in the body systems chapters. * Includes mnemonics boxes in the margins to help students remember examination techniques or health history questions. * Lists tables and boxes in table of contents for easy access to information. NEW FEATURES: * NEW CD ROM (free with textbook): An interactive "tool box" of learning activities and forms included to facilitate development of critical thinking. Includes: * Body system interactive challenge questions for each of the 14 body systems chapters. * 20 Patient Teaching Guides for print out and use. * Clinical Laboratory Guidelines that may be printed for use in the clinical setting. * Hundreds of illustrations have been updated, most in full color, and 150 new illustrations have been added to enhance visual learning. * New separate chapters for Mental Status and Neurologic System highlight the importance of each in the assessment of health. * New comprehensive chapter on Nutrition emphasizes the importance of nutrition and its impact on overall health. * New chapter on Critical Thinking added to help students assess the value and significance of the information gathered from the history and exam and learn how to set priorities and institute management plans. * Differential Diagnosis content highlighted throughout with special heading for easy access and details to assist the student with critical thinking. (PREVIOUS EDITION AVAILABLE IN SPANISH.8481741655)(Includes FREE CD-ROM and Mosby website at:www.harcourthealth.com/Mosby/Seidel/)

Mosby's Guide to Physical Examination

Medical Books

Ball RN? DrPH? CPNP, Jane W.

Dains DrPH? JD? APRN? FNP?BC? FNAP? FAANP? FAAN, Joyce E.

Seidel MD, Henry M.

Benedict MD PhD, G. William

Nursing

Mosby

Relied on by thousands of medical professionals, MOSBY'S PHYSICAL EXAMINATION HANDBOOK is a comprehensive, portable clinical reference for physical exams. It includes numerous full-color photos, gives concise descriptions of examination techniques and offers guidelines on how the examination should flow from one procedure to the next. It's the reference manual no health care student or professional should be without. * More than 170 full-color illustrations and photographs enhance descriptions of key steps in physical examination process. * Includes descriptions of common abnormalities to aid students with diagnosis. * Sample documentation in each body system chapter shows what findings to document and how to record them. A great tool for helping students develop observation and documentation skills.

Mosby's Physical Examination Handbook

BALL, Jane

Ball RN DrPH CPNP DPNAP, Jane W.

Dains DrPH JD RN FNP BC DPNAP, Joyce E.

Benedict, G. William

Dains, Joyce

This book is intended to be a convenient resource for those who take care of full-term babies during their first hours and days of life. The 3rd Edition includes information about how a first born baby changes a family unit. The text covers how additional children, illness, or a congenital abnormality intensifies those changes. The PRIMARY CARE OF THE NEWBORN is also intended to be a companion to the HARRIET LANE HANDBOOK.
<li>Offers thoroughly updated and revised content throughout to reflect the very latest developments in the field.</li>
<li>Presents a new chapter on prenatal diagnosis, screening and genetics. </li>
<li>Addresses the emotional context for the care of the newborn, including a discussion of the psychosocial ambience of the newborn experience, in a new chapter (Ch. 30) titled "The Importance of Wasting No Time." Coverage examines the issues of firstborn babies and their role in the family as well as the impact of a newborn's illness or congenital abnormality on the family.
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<li>Includes a completely rewritten and updated pharmacopoeia that details the newest drugs, dosages, indications, and much more.</li>
<li>Expert authors and contributors include Carleton Lee, author of the Harriet Lane formulary and Beryl Rosenstein, author of the Pediatric Pearls handbook.</li>
<li>Provides vivid, full-color illustrations, including numerous pictures of skin conditions, to help readers identify and manage a wide variety of neonatal conditions.</li>
 Spanish version of 2nd edition also available, ISBN: 84-8174-292-9

Primary Care of the Newborn (Mobile Medicine)

Rosenstein MD, Beryl J.

Pathak MD, Ambadas

This cutting-edge course supplement provides a range of visual, auditory, and interactive elements that amplify course content, synthesize concepts, reinforce learning, and demonstrate practical applications. Offering a multidimensional experience that isn't possible in a traditional classroom setting, Health Assessment Online helps students master unfamiliar concepts in a unique and entertaining way! Tailored around the content of the Seidel: Mosby's Guide to Physical Examination, 5th Edition line of products, this unique program provides WebLinks, content updates, power point text slides, a test bank, interactive exercises, checklists and forms, an image collection, practice tests, audio clips, animations, and video clips. Also included is a reference section with diagnostic and laboratory tests and a glossary. Whether used as a supplement to lecture-format classes, for distance learning via the Internet, or as a tool for self-study in the learning lab, Health Assessment Online offers a wide array of interactive tools that reinforce learning and make instruction easier.
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<li>Course management software ― with communication options and administrative tools ― saves instructors time and energy and helps deliver an innovative and dynamic learning environment for students.</li>
<li>Calendars provide a location to post project deadlines and other important dates.</li>
<li>A customizable instructor syllabus ― including lesson descriptions, dates, and assignments ― can be created and posted with ease.</li>
<li>The gradebook function allows instructors to set up electronic gradebooks for each class they supervise.</li>
<li>A bulletin board is available so instructors can post important updates and course information.</li>
<li>An online exam administration feature records results in the gradebooks.</li>
<li>Content is included from the entire family of Seidel: Mosby's Guide to Physical Examination, 5th Edition products.</li>
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Health Assessment & Physical Exam On-Line Course To Accompany Seidel

Stewart MD MS MBA, Rosalyn W.

Robinson PhD FNP RN, Kim

Solomon MD MPH, Barry S.

ROBINSON

Brashers, Valentina L.

Mansen PhD RN, Thom

Flynn MD MBA, John A.

A concise, pocket-sized guide to physical examination and companion to Seidel et al, Mosby's Guide to Physical Examination, 5th Edition, this beautifully illustrated, full-color clinical manual provides convenient, portable access to comprehensive guidance in physical examination. A dynamic author team gives the Handbook an uncommonly strong multidisciplinary perspective, emphasis on differential diagnosis, and expert coverage of both pediatrics and adult health. Color-coded type is used to make examination steps, expected findings, and unexpected findings easy to spot quickly. And now, a new appendix puts a variety of guides to special patient histories at readers' fingertips.
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<li>Each chapter begins with a concise, clearly identified equipment list.
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<li>Easy-to-follow, color-coded tables summarize the core examination content in each chapter. "Examination Techniques" appear in red, "Expected Findings" appear in blue, and "Unexpected Findings" appear in green.</li>
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"Pediatric Variations" tables, also color coded for easy reference, highlight differences in younger patients' disease presentations.</li>
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"Sample Documentation" sections at the end of each chapter provide straightforward examples of good documentation practice.</li>
<li>A removable, pocket-sized quick-reference card inside the back cover presents a comprehensive at-a-glance reminder list of key elements of assessment for every body system and region. One side covers "Physical Examination―Objective Data," and the other covers "History―Subjective Data."</li>
<li>Pages for Clinical and Reference Notes are interspersed throughout the book for personal clinical note-taking.</li>
<li>Handy, two-column "Aids to Differential Diagnosis" tables summarize abnormalities and their distinguishing characteristics.</li>
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<li>A separate chapter on "Blood Vessels" provides expanded coverage on examination of the vascular system</li>
<li>An appendix entitled Quick Reference to Special Histories includes the CAGE Questionnaire, the TACE Questionnaire, the RAFFT Questionnaire</li>
<li>Each chapter begins with a concise, clearly identified equipment list</li>
<li>"Pediatric Variations" tables, color coded for easy reference, highlight differences in younger patients' disease presentations</li>
<li>"Sample Documentation" sections at the end of each chapter provide straightforward examples of good documentation practice</li>

Mosby's Physical Examination Handbook: An Interprofessional Approach

This comprehensive textbook of physical examination, history taking, and health assessment is distinguished by its unique author team of two physicians and two nurses. Their blend of expertise results in an unusually broad, multidisciplinary perspective...a unique emphasis on differential diagnosis...and an uncommonly compassionate, patient-centered approach. What's more, their expertise in both adult health and pediatrics fosters an especially thorough emphasis on lifespan considerations. The book also features one of the most extensive art programs found in any physical examination text―particularly with regard to abnormalities. This 5th Edition features increased coverage of evidence-based practice and complementary and alternative therapies―as well as enhanced illustrations and a state-of-the-art ancillary collection.
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Lifespan considerations are highlighted in subsections on Infants and Children, Adolescents, Pregnant Women, and Older Adults.
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"Risk Factors" boxes point out predispositions to various disorders.</li>
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"Summary of Examination" boxes help readers ensure that they have mastered the necessary examination steps.</li>
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"Mnemonics" boxes highlight practical memory aids to essential physical characteristics.</li>
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"Physical Variations" boxes call attention to key differences in particular racial/ethnic/cultural groups.</li>
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"Functional Assessment" boxes help readers to focus on the impact of diseases and disorders on patient function.</li>
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"Sample Documentation" boxes demonstrate how to record findings.</li>
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Extensive appendices pull together essential reference material, including growth charts, conversion tables, abbreviations, and more.</li>
</ul>Spanish version of 3rd edition also available, ISBN: 84-8174-165-5

Health Assessment Online to Accompany Mosby's Guide to Physical Examination (Access Code, and Textbook Package)

Robinson PhD FNP RN, Kris

This 13 minute video shows the steps needed to examine the breasts and axillae, including the proper use of equipment. With the patient seated, it demonstrates how to inspect the patient's breasts in four positions and how to palpate the breasts and axillae. With the patient supine, it shows various patterns for completing palpation of the breasts.  The video highlights expected findings and alerts the viewer to selected variations in pediatric and geriatric patients. In addition, it emphasizes the importance of patient teaching regarding breast self-examination.Animations and overlays demonstrate content and processes that cannot be shown on video (e.g., organs under the skin, lymph nodes, abdomen, pregnancy, transillumination of the sinuses, hydrocele, or scrotal cyst)A booklet is provided with each video, containing overviews and outlines, learning objectives, discussion topics, and review questions with answersCompletely redone normal physical examination contentExamination content is more fast-paced and streamlined for a more contemporary lookMore culture, age, and gender variations are featured to reflect a diverse populationLifespan considerations are depicted throughout, with variations in assessment for pediatric and geriatric patients

Mosby's Physical Examination Video Series: DVD 9: Breasts and Axillae, Version 2

A print workbook carefully revised and updated for improved accuracy, includes interactive learning activities, content review questions, concept application exercises, case studies, and critical thinking problems.

Student Laboratory Manual to accompany Mosby's Guide to Physical Examination, Sixth Edition

Mosby's Physical Examination Video Series, Version 2 (Access Code): Online Version

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