Ferri's Clinical Advisor 2024

Fast answers to facilitate your daily diagnosis and treatment decisions

Fred F. Ferri (Edited by)

9780323755764

Hardback, published 22 August 2023

2080 pages, 2600 illustrations
27.6 x 21.6 x 8.5 cm, 4.42 kg

"This comprehensive book covers medical topics relevant to today's clinicians. It is divided into five sections, including diseases and disorders, differential diagnosis, clinical algorithms, laboratory tests and interpretation of results, and clinical practice guidelines. The ebook contains additional content on clinical topics as well as patient teaching guides." ©Doody’s Review Service, 2023, Cassie Scripter, MD (University of Kansas School of Medicine - Wichita) Doody's Score: 4 Stars!

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. 

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

Subject Areas: Clinical & internal medicine [MJ]