This book helps you be ready for both the Step 2 and 3 USMLE exams and those demanding questions during your rotations. The new "Blueprints Clinical Cases" series will be the answer to all of your needs. Written by residents, this series prepares you for even the most complex cases. It features: Symptom based clinical cases provide comprehensive USMLE review; built-in thought questions help you learn to diagnose using the critical thinking process; case-based learning presents an efficient manner of cataloguing symptoms, syndromes, and diseases; and, 200 questions replicate the computer format of the USMLE.Prepare for your future with the "Blueprints Clinical Cases" series! 'I think this could be the perfect supplemental review for USMLE step 2 or 3 studying or as a guide for the clinical clerkship' - Stuart Smalheiser, University of Miami School of Medicine, 2002. 'I like the case format...[and] found the questions very appropriate and helpful for both testing knowledge and bringing up learning points' - Donald Yarbrough, MD, University of Alabama School of Medicine, 2000. 'Solid cases that flesh out good differential diagnoses' - Jason Sluzevich, MD, Yale School of Medicine, 2000. Perfect for medical students - physician assistants, nurse practitioners and related health professionals will also find "Blueprints Clinical Cases" valuable.
Cases Presenting with Shortness of Breath:1. Acute shortness of breath in a young woman 2. Very short of breath 3. Shortness of breath over one year 4. Chronic shortness of breath 5. Hypertensive, short of breath, and dizzy 6. Fever and shortness of breath 7. Young man with shortness of breath 8. White lungs 9. Fever, sweats, and painful cough in an exotic dancer 10. Fever, productive cough, shortness of breath 11. Shortness of breath and palpitations Cases Presenting with Pain in and Around the Chest: 12. Chest pain, shortness of breath 13. Severe back pain 14. Syncopal episode 15. 49-year-old man with left shoulder pain 16. A 53-year-old man with chest pain Cases Presenting with Pain in and Around the Abdomen: 17. Eating French fries hurts! 18. Tarry, smelly stools and hematemesis 19. Fever, RUQ pain 20. Diarrhea on the plane 21. Fever, diarrhea, and abdominal cramping in a young man 22. A 41-year-old man with abdominal pain 23. Hurts to eat 24. Gnawing epigastric pain, nausea and vomiting 25. Too much Tylenol 26. Fever, swollen abdomen, drowsy and yellow 27. Fever, abdominal pain, and foot drop Cases Presenting with a Hormonal Balance: 28. Young woman, breathing hard, with sunken cheeks 29. Slowing down 30. Cancerous calcification 31. Dizzy when I stand up 32. Keeping that sugar down 33. Jittery Cases Presenting with Patients Wanting to Keep in Good Health: 34. A 65-year-old woman who hasn't seen a doctor recently 35. Calculating cholesterol 36. Reaction to TB Cases Presenting with Pain in and Around the Head: 37. Headache, fever: 38. Stuffy nose 39. Fever, sore throat Cases Presenting with Trouble in the Blood: 40. Bleeding gums 41. 50-year-old man with fatigue and nosebleed 42. Abnormal lab values in a man with an abscess 43. Feverish, bleeding and confused 44. New relationship Cases Presenting with Patients that are Swelling Up: 45. Swollen after a sore throat 46. Painful swollen knee 47. The sore wrist 48. Swollen legs, puffy eyelids in a 35-year-old woman 49. Swollen painful joints 50. Tired of uremia
