Medical Diagnosis&Treatment TR

Medical diagnosis and treatment reference 1,000 diseases and disorders.The 50th Anniversary Edition of the World39;s Most Popular Annual General Medicine Book Celebrated with a New FullColor Design Fully Functional 7Day Trial Your first place to turn for current developments that promise better patient care Written by clinicians renowned in their respective fields, CMDT offers the most current insight into symptoms, signs, epidemiology, and treatment for more than 1,000 diseases and disorders. For each topic you39;ll find concise, evidencebased answers to questions regarding both hospital and ambulatory medicine. MORE usable patientcare information in LESS text: A strong focus on the clinical diagnosis and patient management tools essential to daily practicen Full review of all internal medicine and primary care topics, including gynecology and obstetrics, dermatology, neurology, and ophthalmologyn The only text with an annual review of advances in HIV treatmentn Hundreds of drug treatment tables, with indexed trade names and updated prices plus helpful diagnostic and treatment algorithmsn Recent references with PMID numbers for fast access to abstracts or fulltext articlesn ICD9 codes listed on the inside coversNEW to this edition: Fullcolor photos and illustrations integrated with text throughout book, including much expanded dermatology and ophthalmology imagesn Newly introduced topics: E. coli O145, floppy iris syndrome, and expanded coverage of H1N1 influenza An New information: emerging role for Btype natriuretic peptide BNP as marker of early left ventricular myocardial failure, new approaches to correction of aortic stenosis and to aortic regurgitation in Marfan syndrome, risks of typical and atypical antipsychotic medications, and new hypoglycemic agentsn Substantial update on cardiology and hypertension, including use of stents and cardiac resynchronization therapy with biventricular pacemaker insertion, recent ACCAHA criteria for appropriateness of coronary revascularization, use of prasugrel and clopidogrel compared with aspirin in prevention of stent thrombosisn Updated information on pathogenesis and treatment of immune and druginduced thrombocytopenia, new investigational anticoagulants such as rivaroxaban and idraparinux, risk stratification n Expanded information on methicillinresistant Staphylococcus aureus, treatment of pharyngitis and laryngitis, approaches to the diagnosis of syphilis, diagnosis and complications with borreliosis and its coinfections, acute and chronic viral hepatitides, amyloidosis, treatment and prognosis of venous stasis ulcers, and therapy for heat stroke and burnsn Substantially updated treatment sections: HIV infections and AIDS and advances in therapy for breast cancer in womenn Updated section on immunization requirementsn New CMDT Online chapter on Sports Medicine and Outpatient OrthopedicsThe MSDict dictionary FormatThe 2011 CURRENT Medical Diagnosis amp; Treatment is here presented in MSDict electronic format. Quick dynamic search of words while you typen Hyperlinks between different related wordsn History to see the last 50 words you have looked upn Autofit for larger imagesn Categories in the search listn Support for memory cardsn filter to help you locate the word you are searching for:no Fuzzy filter used when you are not sure of the correct spelling of a wordno Keywordused to locate the instances of a key word within other compound wordsno Wild card quot;?quot; and quot;quot; replace a letter and group of letters in wordsn Ability to have dictionary Word of the day as a widget on the phone home screen