Medical Insights: From Classroom to Patient: From Classroom to Patient

Medical Insights: From Classroom to Patient is a quick reference to assist medical professionals and students on how to decipher medical information. Many texts present materials in a voluminous and disjointed manner. This guide takes disparate medical information and puts it together in a way that readers can utilize to quickly make important clinical connections. Topics are presented in a clinically relevant and easy-to-use format. This is an ideal resource for all medical professionals and students. Title......Page 2 Copyright......Page 3 Contents......Page 6 Preface......Page 10 About the Author......Page 12 Reviewers......Page 14 Brevity 1: A Deficiency in a Hematinic Agent May Cause Illness While the Blood Count Is Still Normal......Page 16 Brevity 2: Not All Dementia Is Irreversible. The Clinician Must Always Look for a Treatable Cause of the Cognitive Disorder......Page 19 Brevity 3: Remember the “Acey-Ducey” Rule: In Paired Structures in the Body, Recurrent Involvement of One of the Pair Suggests a “Local” Disorder Whereas Involvement of Both Strongly Suggests Systemic Disease......Page 20 Brevity 4: Young Adults Can Suffer Acute Stroke. In These Patients, You Must Consider Patent Foramen Ovale, Factor V Leiden Mutation, and Antiphospholipid Antibody Syndrome as Causative Factors......Page 23 Brevity 5: Consider a Metabolic Disorder in Any Patient Who Presents with Psychiatric Disturbances. In Many Cases, the Emotional Manifestations Are Very Early Signs of the Underlying Metabolic Abnormality......Page 27 Brevity 6: Always Seek a Common Denominator in Medicine......Page 30 Brevity 7: Flushing......Page 50 Brevity 9: Think of the Chronology of a Heart Murmur......Page 53 Brevity 10: Make It Easier to Remember......Page 55 And Is the Most Important Element in Medical Diagnosis......Page 60 Fatigue And......Page 61 Stroke and Fever......Page 71 Heart Failure and Bounding Pulses......Page 73 Dyspnea And......Page 75 Clubbing And......Page 76 Hyperglycemia And......Page 79 Eosinophilia And......Page 81 Conclusion......Page 82 MED1C......Page 84 Drug Interactions......Page 90 Topic 1: It May Not Be Irritable Bowel Syndrome......Page 94 Topic 2: Abdominal Pain May Arise in the Chest, Not the Abdomen......Page 95 Topic 3: Bronchial Asthma and the Thyroid Gland......Page 98 Topic 4: “All That Wheezes Is Not Asthma”......Page 99 Topic 5: Serum C-Reactive Protein and Proteinuria......Page 101 Topic 6: Bilateral Hilar Nodes......Page 103 Topic 7: Syncope with Effort in the Young Patient......Page 104 Topic 8: Is It Serious?......Page 108 Topic 9: Aortic Valve Stenosis and Hypertrophic Obstructive Cardiomyopathy......Page 113 Topic 10: Bile Salts and Bile Pigments......Page 114 Topic 11: Macrocytosis and Megaloblastosis......Page 116 Topic 12: Neurologic Symptoms......Page 117 Topic 13: The Diagnosis Is Stroke......Page 118 Topic 14: Circumoral Paresthesias......Page 123 Topic 15: Atrial Fibrillation and a Regular Pulse......Page 124 Topic 16: Peripheral Lymphadenopathy in Adults......Page 126 Topic 17: Cough in the Cardiac Patient......Page 127 Topic 18: Angina Pectoris, Transient Ischemic Attack, and Floaters......Page 128 Topic 19: Atrial Fibrillation: Why Is It So Hard to Control the Ventricular Rate?......Page 129 Topic 20: Age Matters in Disease Presentation......Page 131 Topic 21: Pulmonary Infarction and Hepatic Infarction: Why Are Infarctions of the Lung and Liver So Uncommon?......Page 132 Topic 22: Pulse Pressure: A New Look at an Old Sign......Page 133 Topic 23: Diplopia......Page 135 Topic 24: Neuropathies of Pregnancy......Page 137 Topic 25: Bicuspid Aortic Valve and Dissection of the Aorta......Page 138 Topic 26: Petechiae, Purpura, and Ecchymosis......Page 139 Topic 27: The Patient with a Diffuse Rash: An Important Clue to Diagnosis......Page 141 Always......Page 144 Never......Page 166 Linkage 1: Acid–Base Balance......Page 180 Linkage 2: Ptosis......Page 184 Linkage 3: Peripheral Edema......Page 188 Linkage 4: Dyspnea......Page 193 It Depends 1: What Is the Proper Dose of Nitroglycerin?......Page 198 It Depends 2: What Is the Significance of Atrial Premature Beats?......Page 200 It Depends 3: What Is the Proper Dose of a Diuretic in the Treatment of Heart Failure?......Page 202 It Depends 4: Is Jugular (Central) Venous Pressure a Good Indicator of Hypovolemia?......Page 204 It Depends 5: What Are the Physical Examination Signs in Mitral Valve Regurgitation?......Page 206 It Depends 6: What Is the Duration of Anticoagulant Therapy in a Patient Who Has Deep Vein Thrombosis?......Page 209 It Depends 7: What Are the Electrocardiographic Findings in a Patient Who Has Angina Pectoris?......Page 210 It Depends 8: Does Carotid Artery Atherosclerosis Cause a Bruit?......Page 211 It Depends 9: What Is the Significance of Hypotension?......Page 213 It Depends 10: Do Patients Who Have Infective Endocarditis Develop Clubbing?......Page 215 It Depends 11: In a Patient Who Has Coarctation of the Aorta, Is the Blood Pressure Equal in the Arms?......Page 216 3. Jaundice May Be Due to Elevation of Either Serum “Direct” (Conjugated) or “Indirect” (Unconjugated) Bilirubin Levels.......Page 218 5. When Reviewing Laboratory Data on a Patient, Always Calculate the Blood Urea Nitrogen: Serum Creatinine Ratio.......Page 219 8. Antibodies Are Present in the Serum of Patients Who Have Hypothyroidism Due to Hashimoto’s Disease and in the Hyperthyroid Patient Who Has Graves’ Disease.......Page 220 11. Examination of the Dehydrated Patient May Fool the Clinician; the Key Is in Understanding Osmotic Pressure.......Page 221 13. Electrocardiography: Bundle Branch Blocks......Page 222 15. Gynecomastia......Page 223 16. Arterial Blood Gas Determination......Page 224 18. Butterfly Rash......Page 225 19. Weakness......Page 226 Index......Page 228

medical Insights: From Classroom To Clinic Is A Quick Reference To Assist Medical Professionals And Students On How To Decipher Medical Information. Many Texts Present Materials In A Voluminous And Disjointed Manner. This Guide Takes Disparate Medical Information And Puts It Together In A Way That Readers Can Utilize To Quickly Make Important Clinical Connections. Topics Are Presented In A Clinically Relevant And Easy-to-use Format. This Is An Ideal Resource For All Medical Professionals And Students.