Essential Primary Care aims to provide undergraduate students with a comprehensive overview of the clinical problems encountered in primary care. It covers the structure of primary care in the UK, disease prevention and the management of common and important clinical presentations from infancy to old age. Case studies are used in every chapter to illustrate key learning points. The book provides practical advice on how to consult with patients, make sense of their symptoms, explain things to them, and manage their problems.
Essential Primary Care: Is structured in five sections: - The building blocks of primary care: its structure and connection with secondary care, the consultation, the process of making a diagnosis, prescribing, and ethical issues - Health promotion - Common and important presenting problems in roughly chronological order - Cancer - Death and palliative care Gives advice on how to phrase questions when consulting with patients and how to present information to patients Provides advice on how management extends to prescribing - often missing from current textbooks Contains case studies within each chapter which reflect the variety of primary care and provide top tips and advice for consulting with patients Supported by a companion website at www.wileyessential.com/primarycare featuring MCQs, EMQs, cases and OSCE checklists
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List of Contributors Preface Foreword by Chris Salisbury How to use your textbook About the companion website Part 1: The Key Features of Primary Care 1 The structure and organisation of primary care Andrew Blythe 2 The GP consultation Jessica Buchan 3 Making a diagnosis Barbara Laue 4 Prescribing Andrew Blythe 5 The interface with secondary care Sarah Jahfar 6 The everyday ethics of primary care Trevor Thompson Part 2: Healthy Living and Disease Prevention 7 Behaviour change Jessica Buchan 8 Alcohol and drug misuse Andrew Blythe 9 Preventing cardiovascular disease Andrew Blythe 10 Caring for people with learning disabilities Andrew Blythe Part 3: Common Presenting Problems 11 Tiredness Andrew Blythe Childhood 12 Child health in primary care Jessica Buchan 13 Managing the feverish and ill child in primary care Alastair Hay, Lucy Jenkins & Jessica Buchan 14 Managing common problems in infancy Jessica Buchan 15 Managing chronic conditions in childhood Lucy Jenkins, Alastair Hay, Matthew Ridd & Jessica Buchan 16 Teenage and young adult health Jessica Buchan & David Kessler Early adulthood 17 Respiratory tract infections Lucy Jenkins 18 Low back pain Jessica Buchan 19 Heartburn and dyspepsia Jessica Buchan 20 Diarrhoea and rectal bleeding Andrew Blythe 21 Common skin conditions Matthew Ridd 22 Headache Andrew Blythe 23 Fits, faints and funny turns Andrew Blythe 24 Depression, anxiety and self harm David Kessler 25 Sexual health and dysuria Lucy Jenkins 26 Menstrual problem, contraception and termination of pregnancy Jessica Buchan 27 Pregnancy Jessica Buchan 28 Domestic violence and abuse Gene Feder Middle and old age 29 Cardiovascular disease Andrew Blythe 30 Breathlessness Jessica Buchan 31 Joint pains and stiffness Andrew Blythe 32 Urinary problems and prostate disease Simon Thornton 33 The menopause Jessica Buchan 34 Multimorbidity and polypharmacy Polly Duncan & Andrew Blythe 35 Falls and fragility fractures Andrew Blythe 36 Visual and hearing loss Andrew Blythe 37 Dementia Andrew Blythe Part 4: Cancer 38 Spotting patients with cancer Andrew Blythe 39 Looking after patients with cancer Andrew Blythe Part 5: Palliative Care and Death 40 Palliative care and death Andrew Blythe Index
