Bates' Pocket Guide to Physical Examination and History Taking

by Lynn S. Bickley MD, FACP, Peter G. Szilagyi MD, MPH, Richard M. Hoffman MD, MPH, FACP, Rainier P. Soriano MD

Overview

This updated ninth edition of the leading medical physical examination pocket guide available today provides concise, authoritative guidance on how to perform the patient interview, physical examination, and other core assessments. This trusted pocket-sized reference includes fully illustrated, step-by-step techniques, retaining the easy-to-follow two-column format that correlates examination techniques on the left and abnormalities (clearly indicated in red) with differential diagnoses on the right.
 
Now featuring an enhanced design, new content, and new student-friendly learning aids, Bates’ Pocket Guide to Physical Examination and History Taking, Ninth Edition, is the ideal quick-reference resource for today’s medical, PA, pharmacy, and nursing students.

• NEW! Expanded Unit 1 provides an overview of the components of the patient encounter and helps you ensure the most effective information-gathering and decision-making approaches.
• NEW! Algorithms provide helpful starting approaches for patients with common presenting symptoms.
• UPDATED! Restructured Regional Exam chapters enhance your understanding of overview material, examination techniques, and health promotion and counseling considerations. 
• UPDATED! Photographs, illustrations, and references reinforce key content based on the latest evidence-based information.
• UPDATED! Text boxes are numbered to provide quick access to important summaries of clinical conditions and tips for challenging examination techniques.
• Detailed, highly illustrated tables of abnormal conditions display examination and clinical information in an easy-to-find, quick-reference format.

 

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781975109875
Publisher:	LWW
Publication date:	11/25/2020
Series:	Lippincott Connect
Edition description:	Ninth, North American Edition
Pages:	600
Sales rank:	161,893
Product dimensions:	4.20(w) x 7.00(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Bickley, Lynn S., MD (Texas Tech Health Sciences Center); Hoekelman, Robert A., MD (Univ of Rochester)

Table of Contents

Chapter 1. Foundations for Clinical Proficiency
Chapter 2. Evaluating Clinical Evidence
Chapter 3. Interviewing and the Health History
Chapter 4. Beginning the Physical Examination: General Survey, Vital Signs, and Pain
Chapter 5. Behavior and Mental Status
Chapter 6. The Skin, Hair, and Nails
Chapter 7. The Head and Neck
Chapter 8. The Thorax and Lungs
Chapter 9. The Cardiovascular System
Chapter 10. The Breasts and Axillae
Chapter 11. The Abdomen
Chapter 12. The Peripheral Vascular System
Chapter 13. Male Genitalia and Hernias
Chapter 14. Female Genitalia
Chapter 15. The Anus, Rectum, and Prostate
Chapter 16. The Musculoskeletal System
Chapter 17. The Nervous System
Chapter 18. Assessing Children: Infancy through Adolescence
Chapter 19. The Pregnant Woman
Chapter 20. The Older Adult

Editorial Reviews

Reviewer: Vincent F Carr, DO, MSA, FACC, FACP (Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences)
Description: This is one of the better texts on physical examination available on the market. The pocket guide is being published in its ninth edition, last published in 2016.
Purpose: The Bate's Guide goes back to the publication of its first edition in 1974. It has been updated periodically to reflect the changing expectations in obtaining a history and performing a physical examination.
Audience: This is primarily a book for medical students; however, as the medical profession has come to realize the importance of communicating with patients in a culturally competent way, the book has many updates and tremendous teaching value for all levels of clinicians.
Features: The book is divided into the traditional organ systems of the body with many additional chapters focusing on interviewing, communication and interpersonal skills, health maintenance and screening, evaluating clinical evidence, children, infancy and adolescence, and the pregnant woman. The format is mostly bullets with many figures, tables (boxes), and full-color photographs that are extremely well presented. The size of the text is well suited for easy carrying in one's lab coat.
Assessment: The authors and contributors have pared down the full version extremely well, maintaining the essentials that are more detailed in the full-size version of the guide.

Doody's Review Service

3 Stars from Doody

This is a concise, portable, and easy to carry guide to physical examination and history taking. The previous edition was published in 1995. This book is to be used as a reference for review and recall of a comprehensive list of key elements in physical examination and history taking. The editors give readers a concise and convenient guide for review, as well as a reference for special techniques or maneuvers in the art and history of physical assessment. Due to the fundamental nature of the text, it can be used by essentially any medical provider. It is intended, however, as a guide for recall and review and not as a primary instructional guide for the novice. With this edition, a change in editor is made. Dr. Bickley is an associate professor of medicine and neuropsychiatry. Techniques and maneuvers necessary for proper history taking and physical examination are provided. These are presented in a well-organized format with a discussion of each body system in succession. There are sections on the adult and pediatric patient. A chapter entitled ""Aids to Interpretation"" is extremely well organized and useful in use of tables, charts, photographs, and illustrations to address specific topics in physical assessment. This is a remarkably concise text, given the breadth of the topic and the portable size of the book. It is a worthy reference for the student in need of review to reinforce proper technique for common procedures, as well as for the seasoned practitioner in need of reference for a specific maneuver or technique. This third edition contains material on health promotion, aging, and sports medicine not found in previous editions.

Judson C. Jones

Updated from the 1995 edition, this reference and review pocket guide succinctly covers the health history and the physical exam (with b&w drawings and photographs), addresses common findings, describes special techniques, and offers interpretive aids. (4x7<">) Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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