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Ferri's Clinical Advisor 2024

  • Book

  • August 2023
  • Elsevier Health Science
  • ID: 5755332
For more than 25 years, Ferri's Clinical Advisor has provided immediate answers on the myriad medical diseases and disorders you're likely to encounter in a unique, easy-to-use format. A bestselling title year after year, this popular "5 books in 1" reference delivers vast amounts of information in a user-friendly manner. It is updated annually to provide current and clinically relevant answers on over 1,000 common medical conditions, including diseases and disorders, differential diagnoses, clinical algorithms, laboratory tests, and clinical practice guidelines?all carefully reviewed by experts in key clinical fields. Extensive algorithms, along with hundreds of high-quality photographs, illustrations, diagrams, and tables, ensure that you stay current with today's medical practice.
  • Contains significant updates throughout all 5 sections, covering all aspects of diagnosis and treatment.

  • Features 26 all-new topics including monkeypox, occupational asthma, care of the transgender patient, infantile hypotonia, long-COVID, medical marijuana, cannabinoid use disorder, and abuse of performance enhancing hormones, among others.

  • Includes useful appendices covering palliative care, preoperative evaluation, nutrition, poison management, commonly used herbal products in integrated medicine, and much more.

  • Offers online access to Patient Teaching Guides in both English and Spanish.

  • An eBook version is included with purchase. The eBook allows you to access all of the text, figures and references, with the ability to search, customize your content, make notes and highlights, and have content read aloud.

Table of Contents

Section 1: Diseases and Disorders (approx.. 1000 medical topics; this is the main portion of the text)

Section 2: Differential Diagnosis

Section 3: Clinical Algorithms

Section 4: Laboratory Tests and Interpretation of Results

Section 5: Clinical Practice Guidelines

APPENDIX I: Definitions of Complementary and Alternative Medicine Terms

APPENDIX II: Nutrition

APPENDIX III: Acute Poisoning

APPENDIX IV: Impairment and Disability Issues

APPENDIX V: Primary Care Procedures

APPENDIX VI: Patient Teaching Guides ?

Authors

Fred F. Ferri Clinical Professor, The Warren Alpert Medical School, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island. Fred Ferri is a Clinical Professor of Community Health at the Alpert Medical School, Brown University and author of over 30 medical books. He has been the best-selling medical author in the United States over the past 25 years and is also well known and respected internationally. He has been a visiting Professor at other medical schools and many of his books have been translated in several languages. In addition to his numerous publications, he has had a distinguished academic career at Brown University where he has received several awards for his dedication to teaching including the Brown University Excellence in Teaching award and Dean's teaching Award, and with the American College of Physicians where he was inducted as a Fellow in the ACP and has been a recipient of the Irving Addison Beck Award from the Rhode Island Chapter of the American College of Physicians. Dr. Ferri is a practicing physician at Ocean State Medical, a group primary care practice that he established in 1984 and still runs along with two other partners and his two sons.