Tropical Medicine

Tropical Medicine

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Beeching, Nick
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Newark : John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, 2014.
Series:New York Academy of Sciences Ser.
Subjects:
Medicine > Ability testing.
Tropical medicine > England.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Click for online access
Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Tropical Medicine Lecture Notes
  • Contents
  • Contributors
  • Preface
  • List of abbreviations
  • How to use your textbook
  • About the companion website
  • Part 1 A general approach to syndromes/symptom complexes
  • 1 Gastrointestinal presentations
  • Dysphagia/odynophagia
  • Haematemesis
  • Abdominal pain
  • Malabsorption
  • Tropical sprue
  • Diarrhoea
  • Pathophysiology and definitions
  • History
  • Other illness
  • Host factors
  • Examination
  • Clinical syndromes of diarrhoea
  • Investigations
  • Management
  • FURTHER READING
  • 2 Respiratory presentations
  • Assessment
  • History
  • Respiratory history
  • Non-respiratory illness
  • Examination in respiratory cases
  • Investigation of respiratory disease
  • Chest X-ray
  • Sputum/respiratory secretions
  • Blood cultures
  • Pleural fluid
  • Lung function testing
  • Common presentations
  • Acute breathlessness and fever in the small child
  • Acute breathlessness, cough and fever in adults
  • Chronic cough and malaise
  • Breathlessness and wheeze
  • Pleural effusion
  • Respiratory disease and HIV
  • FURTHER READING
  • 3 Neurological presentations
  • Reasons for increased incidence of neurological disorders in the tropics
  • Neurological syndromes
  • Pathological processes
  • Rapid assessment of patient with coma in the tropics
  • Classification and further investigation of patients with coma
  • Indications and contraindications for lumbar puncture in suspected CNS infections (Table 3.4)
  • Cerebrospinal fluid findings in CNS infections
  • FURTHER READING
  • 4 Febrile presentations
  • Pathogenesis and symptomatic treatment of fever
  • Clinical approach to the patient with fever
  • History
  • Examination
  • Initial investigation
  • Acute fevers with a negative malarial blood film
  • Treatment of common causes of fever lasting 2 weeks
  • Common clinical problems with febrile patients
  • FURTHER READING
  • 5 Dermatological presentations
  • Skin ulcers
  • Skin itching
  • Creeping eruptions
  • Papules
  • Skin nodules
  • Changes in pigmentation
  • Hypopigmented macules
  • Hyperpigmentation
  • Urticaria
  • Vesicles and bullae
  • Petechial rashes
  • FURTHER READING
  • 6 The patient with anaemia
  • Causes of anaemia
  • Clinical diagnosis of anaemia
  • Laboratory investigations
  • Measurement of haemoglobin
  • Examination of peripheral blood film
  • Microcytic anaemia
  • Macrocytic anaemia
  • Normocytic anaemia
  • Management of anaemia in the absence of alaboratory
  • Blood transfusion in developing countries
  • FURTHER READING
  • 7 A syndromic approach to sexually transmitted infections
  • The need for a public health approach
  • Syndromic management
  • Local adaptations
  • How to use the flowcharts

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