Essentials of Kumar and Clark's Clinical Medicine (Pocket Essentials) - Softcover

Zammitt MBChB BSc(Med Sci) MD FRCP(Edin), Nicola; Sandilands MBChB BSc(Hons) MD FRCP(Edin), Euan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0702082791 ISBN 13: 9780702082795

Publisher: Elsevier, 2021

Synopsis

The seventh edition of this BMA award-winning pocket guide provides essential information for doctors based on the comprehensive Kumar & Clark's Clinical Medicine - the highly respected, gold-standard textbook on the treatment and management of medical conditions.

Essentials is intended as an easy-to-access revision reference that provides important information for doctors on the ward, including normal values, medical emergencies, useful websites, abbreviations and a dictionary of terms.

This best-selling book has been fully updated and is accessible, coherent and concise, making it an essential companion for medical students, doctors and health professionals in the UK and around the world.

• Small and compact - can be taken anywhere
• Clearly laid out, logical and easy to follow
• Emergency guide for quick reference
• Illustrations and tables to enhance understanding
• New section on COVID-19
• New chapter on Elderly Medicine and Frailty
• Winner of the Internal Medicine category at the 2018 BMA Medical Book Awards
• Enhanced eBook version included with purchase. Your enhanced eBook allows you to access all of the text, figures, and references from the book on a variety of devices.

New co-editor Euan Sandilands
New chapter on  Elderly Medicine and Frailty

About this title

About the Author

Jason D. Bakos is an associate professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of South Carolina. He received a BS in Computer Science from Youngstown State University in 1999 and a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Pittsburgh in 2005. Dr. Bakos's research focuses on mapping data- and compute-intensive codes to high-performance, heterogeneous, reconfigurable, and embedded computer systems. His group works closely with FPGA-based computer manufacturers Convey Computer Corporation, GiDEL, and Annapolis Micro Systems, as well as GPU and DSP manufacturers NVIDIA, Texas Instruments, and Advantech. Dr. Bakos holds two patents, has published over 30 refereed publications in computer architecture and high-performance computing, was a winner of the ACM/DAC student design contest in 2002 and 2004, and received the US National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER award in 2009. He is currently serving as associate editor for ACM Transactions on Reconfigurable Technology and Systems.

Edition details

• Publisher: Elsevier
• Publication date: 2021
• ISBN 10: 0702082791
• ISBN 13: 9780702082795
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 928