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The Unofficial Guide to Practical Skills, 2nd Edition

ISBN: 9780323937191
ISBN: 9780323937191
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The unique and award-winning Unofficial Guides series is a collaboration between senior students, junior doctors and specialty experts. This combination of contributors understands what is essential to excel on your course, in exams and in practice – as well as the importance of presenting information in a clear, fun and engaging way. Packed with hints and tips from those in the know, when you are in a hurry and need a study companion you can trust, reach for an Unofficial Guide.

Designed for medical students, nurses, junior doctors and other healthcare professionals, The Unofficial Guide to Practical Skills contains step-by-step guidance to over 50 core practical procedures. Information is easy to follow and procedures are explained clearly – along with expert practical tips.

This book covers the essential skills you’ll need throughout your course and for the OSCEs. It also provides a succinct, day-to-day reference for those in practice.

New to this edition
    • Additional stations covering lateral flow tests, PPE, using a hospital bed
    • Standardisation of different scenarios
    • New COVID guidance
    • More answers to examiner questions in each scenario
Key Features
    • Wide range of procedures covered – more than any other book of its kind
    • Accompanying mark schemes and typical exam questions to simulate real-life assessment
    • Fully illustrated with over 200 color photos/illustrations
    • Model answers so you can check how well you are performing
    • Content aligned to the latest GMC/MLA requirements
Author Information
Edited by Emily Hotton, MBChB (Dist), BSc (Hons) PhD, MRCOG, Women’s and Children’s Research, Southmead Hospital; Translational Health Sciences, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom and Sammie Mak, MBChB , Junior Doctor, NHS England, Manchester, United Kingdom

Περιεχόμενα

  • Cover image
  • Title page
  • Table of Contents
  • Copyright
  • Series Editor Foreword
  • Introduction
  • Acknowledgement
  • Abbreviations and Symbols
  • 1. Basic Patient Assessment
  • Station 1.1: Heart Rate and Respiratory Rate
  • Station 1.2: Oxygen Saturation
  • Station 1.3: Blood Pressure
  • Station 1.4: Lying and Standing Blood Pressure
  • Station 1.5: Ankle Brachial Pressure Index
  • Station 1.6: Blood Glucose
  • Station 1.7: MRSA Swab
  • Questions and Answers for Candidate
  • Station 1.8: Body Mass Index
  • Station 1.9: Nutritional Assessment
  • 2. Blood Tests
  • Station 2.1: Venepuncture/Phlebotomy
  • Questions and Answers for Candidate
  • Station 2.2: Blood Cultures
  • Questions and Answers for Candidate
  • Station 2.3: Arterial Blood Gas
  • Questions and Answers for Candidate
  • Station 2.4: Blood Gas Interpretation
  • Questions and Answers for Candidate
  • 3. Acute Patient Management
  • Station 3.1: Immediate Life Support
  • Questions and Answers for Candidates
  • Station 3.2: Choking
  • Questions and Answers for Candidate
  • Station 3.3: Sizing and Fitting a Hard Collar
  • Questions and Answers for Candidate
  • Station 3.4: Airway Management
  • Questions and Answers for Candidate
  • Station 3.5: Administering Oxygen
  • Questions and Answers for Candidate
  • Station 3.6: Intravenous Cannulation
  • Questions and Answers for Candidate
  • Station 3.7: Setting Up a Giving Set
  • Questions and Answers for Candidate
  • Station 3.8: Blood Transfusion
  • Questions and Answers for Candidate
  • Station 3.9: ECGs
  • Questions and Answers for Candidate
  • Station 3.10: Fundoscopy
  • Questions and Answers for Candidate
  • Station 3.11: Otoscopy
  • Station 3.12: Central Venous Lines
  • Questions and Answers for Candidate
  • 4. Medication Administration
  • Station 4.1: Intramuscular Injections
  • Station 4.2: Subcutaneous Injections
  • Station 4.3: Intradermal Injections
  • Station 4.4: Local Anaesthetic Administration
  • Station 4.5: Intravenous Drugs
  • Station 4.6: Drug Administration Via Nebuliser
  • Station 4.7: Operating a Syringe Driver
  • 5. Medicine and Surgery
  • Station 5.1: Simple Dressing Change
  • Questions and Answers For Candidate
  • Station 5.2: Spirometry
  • Questions and Answers for Candidate
  • Station 5.3: Knee Joint Aspiration
  • Questions and Answers for Candidate
  • Station 5.4: Nasogastric Tube Insertion
  • Questions and Answers for Candidate
  • Station 5.5: Diagnostic Pleural Tap
  • Questions and Answers for Candidate
  • Station 5.6: Chest Drain
  • Questions and Answers for Candidate
  • Station 5.7: Diagnostic Ascitic Tap
  • Questions and Answers for Candidate
  • Station 5.8: Therapeutic Paracentesis
  • Questions and Answers for Candidate
  • Station 5.9: Lumbar Puncture
  • Questions and Answers for Candidate
  • Station 5.10: Proctoscopy
  • Document the Procedure
  • Questions and Answers for Candidate
  • Station 5.11: Instruments
  • Questions and Answers for Candidate
  • Station 5.12: Suturing
  • Questions and Answers for Candidate
  • Station 5.13: Surgical Gowning and Gloving
  • Questions and Answers for Candidate
  • 6. Urology
  • Station 6.1: Urinalysis
  • Questions and Answers for Candidate
  • Station 6.2: Male Urethral Catheterisation
  • Questions and Answers for Candidate
  • Station 6.3: Female Urethral Catheterisation
  • Questions and Answers for Candidate
  • Station 6.4: Suprapubic Catheterisation
  • Questions and Answers for Candidate
  • 7. Paediatrics
  • Station 7.1: Peak Flow
  • Questions and Answers for Candidate
  • Station 7.2: Inhaler Technique
  • Questions and Answers for Candidate
  • Station 7.3: Preparing Baby Formula Milk
  • Questions and Answers for Candidate
  • 8. General Skills
  • Station 8.1: Hand Washing
  • Questions and Answers for Candidate
  • Station 8.2: Infection Control
  • Questions and Answers for Candidate
  • Station 8.3: Manual Handling
  • Questions and Answers for Candidate
  • Station 8.4: Death Certification
  • Questions and Answers for Candidate
  • Station 8.5: Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)
  • Questions and Answers for Candidate
  • Index