TY - BOOK AU - Kowalak, J.P. AU - Hughes, A.S. (eds) TI - Handbook of signs and symptoms SN - 1582551596 CY - Philadelphia PB - Springhouse Publishing KW - Signs KW - Symptoms N1 - Monograph N2 - This comprehensive updated Second Edition is an authoritative handbook for recognising patient signs and symptoms, linking them to their most probable causes, and putting them in context with associated findings. The book provides full descriptions for over 300 major signs and symptoms, with level of urgency, emergency interventions, guidelines for history and physical examination, common medical causes and other causes, and pediatric and geriatric pointers for group-specific consideration. The book also includes an appendix of 250 less familiar, accessory, and nonspecific signs and symptoms and new features to this edition include herbal medicines as possible causes, the newest disease developments and also geriatric pointers ER -