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Titles in the Pocket Tutor series give practical guidance on subjects that medical students and foundation doctors need help with “on the go”, at a highly affordable price that puts them within reach of those rotating through modular courses or working on attachment.
Topics reflect information needs stemming from today’s integrated undergraduate & foundation courses:
- Common investigations (ECG, imaging, etc)
- Clinical skills (surface anatomy, patient examination, etc.)
- Clinical specialties that students perceive as too small to merit a textbook (psychiatry, renal medicine)
Key Points
- Highly affordable price and convenient pocket size format – fits in back pocket!
- Logical, sequential content: the first principles of emergency imaging, then a guide to understanding a normal image and the building blocks of an abnormal image, before describing specific clinical disorders
- Clinical disorders are illustrated by high quality radiographs, ultrasounds, CTs and MRIs, with brief accompanying text that clearly identifies the defining feature of the image
- Focuses on the conditions that medical students and foundation doctors are most likely to see and be tested on
- Second edition features a new chapter on common emergency cases including chest pain and breathlessness, acute abdominal pain, sudden onset headache, and weight loss and jaundice
Previous edition (9781907816567) published in 2013.
Mandip K Heir MBChB PG Dip MedEd FRCR
Consultant Radiologist
Ram Vaidhyanath DMRD DNB FRCR EBiHNR
Consultant Radiologist, The RCR - Dr PK Ganguli Visiting Professor
Both at University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust, Leicester, UK
Chapter 1: First principles of emergency imaging
1.1 Imaging modalities
1.2 Use of contrast media
1.3 Investigation requesting and image interpretation
Chapter 2: Understanding normal results
2.1 Plain radiographs
2.2 Ultrasound
2.3 Computed tomography
2.4 Magnetic resonance imaging
Chapter 3: Recognising abnormalities
3.1 Fractures
3.2 Inflammation and abscess
3.3 Effusion
3.4 Haemorrhage
3.5 Thrombosis
3.6 Tumours and mass lesions
3.7 Calcifications
3.8 Foreign bodies
Chapter 4: Gastrointestinal system
4.1 Key radiological anatomy
4.2 Trauma
4.3 Acute inflammation
4.4 Bowel obstruction
4.5 Acute mesenteric ischaemia
4.6 Acute gastrointestinal haemorrhage
Chapter 5: Genitourinary system
5.1 Key radiological anatomy
5.2 Renal trauma
5.3 Bladder trauma
5.4 Urinary tract calculi
5.5 Testicular torsion
5.6 Ovarian torsion
Chapter 6: Chest and vascular disease
6.1 Key radiological anatomy
6.2 Thoracic trauma
6.3 Acute aortic syndrome
6.4 Abdominal aortic aneurysm
6.5 Deep vein thrombosis
6.6 Pulmonary embolism
6.7 Foreign bodies
Chapter 7: Head and neck
7.1 Key radiological anatomy
7.2 Facial trauma
7.3 Orbital trauma
7.4 Orbital infection
7.5 Retropharyngeal abscess
7.6 Foreign bodies
Chapter 8: Neurological imaging
8.1 Key radiological anatomy
8.2 Head injury
8.3 Extradural haemorrhage
8.4 Subdural haemorrhage
8.5 Subarachnoid haemorrhage
8.6 Carotid/vertebral artery dissection
8.7 Stroke
8.8 Cerebral venous thrombosis
8.9 Space-occupying lesions
Chapter 9: Musculoskeletal system
9.1 Key radiological anatomy
9.2 Cervical spine injuries
9.3 Thoracic spine injuries
9.4 Lumbar spine injuries
9.5 Cauda equina compression
9.6 Spondylodiscitis
Chapter 10: Paediatric emergency imaging
10.1 Upper gastrointestinal tract disorders
10.2 Lower gastrointestinal tract disorders
10.3 Musculoskeletal disorders
Chapter 11: Emergency cases
11.1 Chest pain and breathlessness
11.2 Acute abdominal pain
11.3 Low back pain
11.4 Swollen right eye
11.5 Weight loss and jaundice
11.6 Neck pain after a fall
11.7 Collapse
11.8 Sudden onset headache
Index