Taylor's 10-Minute Diagnosis Manual : Symptoms and Signs in the Time-Limited Encounter

This quick-reference pocket book is written for primary care practitioners who face diagnostic problems in brief office visits. It offers evidence-based guidelines on which key questions to ask and what data to obtain in order to provide sound diagnoses of common adult problems. More than 140 chapters in eighteen sections cover mental health problems, symptoms and signs in each organ system, laboratory abnormalities, and radiologic abnormalities.

This edition has been thoroughly updated by new editors. New chapters cover corneal foreign body, hematuria, brain natriuretic peptide in congestive heart failure, and D-dimer. The format includes more quick-scanning bullets and tables.

Table of contents : 

Content: ""CONTENTS""

""CONTRIBUTORS""

""SECTION EDITORS""

""PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION""

""PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION""

""ACKNOWLEDGMENTS""

""1 Principles of the 10-Minute Diagnosis""

""PRINCIPLES OF THE 10-MINUTE DIAGNOSIS""

""2 Undifferentiated Problems""

""ANOREXIA""

""DIZZINESS""

""EDEMA""

""FALLS""

""FATIGUE""

""FEVER""

""HEADACHES""

""HYPERSOMNIA""

""INSOMNIA""

""NAUSEA AND VOMITING""

""NIGHT SWEATS""

""SYNCOPE""

""WEIGHT LOSS""

""3 Mental Health Problems""

""ANXIETY""

""DEPRESSION""

""SUICIDE RISK""

""4 Problems Related to the Nervous System""

""ATAXIA"" ""COMA""""DELIRIUM""

""DEMENTIA""

""MEMORY IMPAIRMENT""

""PARESTHESIA AND DYSESTHESIA""

""SEIZURES""

""STROKE""

""TREMORS""

""5 Eye Problems""

""BLURRED VISION""

""CORNEAL FOREIGN BODY""

""DIPLOPIA""

""NYSTAGMUS""

""PAPILLEDEMA""

""PUPILLARY INEQUALITY""

""RED EYE""

""SCOTOMA""

""6 Ear, Nose, and Throat Problems""

""HALITOSIS""

""HEARING LOSS""

""HOARSENESS""

""NOSEBLEED""

""PHARYNGITIS""

""RHINITIS""

""STOMATITIS""

""TINNITUS""

""VERTIGO""

""7 Cardiovascular Problems""

""ATYPICAL CHEST PAIN""

""CHEST PAIN""

""BRADYCARDIA""

""CARDIOMEGALY"" ""CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE""""HEART MURMURS, DIASTOLIC""

""HEART MURMURS, SYSTOLIC""

""HYPERTENSION""

""PALPITATIONS""

""PERICARDIAL FRICTION RUB""

""RAYNAUD�S DISEASE""

""TACHYCARDIA""

""8 Respiratory Problems""

""COUGH""

""CYANOSIS""

""HEMOPTYSIS""

""PLEURAL EFFUSION""

""PLEURITIC PAIN""

""PNEUMOTHORAX""

""SHORTNESS OF BREATH""

""STRIDOR""

""WHEEZING""

""9 Gastrointestinal Problems""

""ABDOMINAL PAIN""

""ASCITES""

""CONSTIPATION""

""DIARRHEA""

""DYSPHAGIA""

""EPIGASTRIC DISTRESS""

""UPPER GASTROINTESTINAL BLEEDING""

""HEPATITIS""

""HEPATOMEGALY""

""JAUNDICE"" ""RECTAL BLEEDING""""STEATORRHEA""

""10 Renal and Urologic Problems""

""DYSURIA""

""HEMATURIA""

""IMPOTENCE""

""URINARY INCONTINENCE IN ADULTS""

""NOCTURIA""

""OLIGURIA AND ANURIA""

""PRIAPISM""

""SCROTAL MASS""

""SCROTAL PAIN""

""URETHRAL DISCHARGE""

""11 Problems Related to the Female Reproductive System""

""AMENORRHEA""

""BREAST MASS""

""CHRONIC PELVIC PAIN""

""DYSMENORRHEA""

""MENORRHAGIA""

""NIPPLE DISCHARGE IN THE NONPREGNANT FEMALE""

""PAP SMEAR ABNORMALITY""

""POSTMENOPAUSAL BLEEDING""

""VAGINAL DISCHARGE""

""12 Musculoskeletal Problems""

""ARTHRALGIA"" ""CALF PAIN""""HIP PAIN""

""KNEE PAIN""

""LOW BACK PAIN""

""MONOARTICULAR JOINT PAIN""

""NECK PAIN""

""POLYMYALGIA""

""SHOULDER PAIN""

""13 Dermatologic Problems""

""ALOPECIA""

""ERYTHEMA MULTIFORME""

""MACULOPAPULAR RASH""

""PIGMENTATION DISORDERS""

""PRURITUS""

""RASH ACCOMPANIED BY FEVER""

""URTICARIA""

""VESICULAR AND BULLOUS ERUPTIONS""

""14 Endocrine and Metabolic Problems""

""DIABETES MELLITUS""

""GYNECOMASTIA""

""HIRSUTISM""

""HYPOTHYROIDISM""

""POLYDIPSIA""

""THYROID ENLARGEMENT/GOITER""

""THYROID NODULE""

""HYPERTHYROIDISM/THYROTOXICOSIS""

Taylor's 10-Minute Diagnosis Manual : Symptoms and Signs in the Time-Limited Encounter