Medical Lecture Note: Goldman's Cecil Medicine 24th Edition (Expert Consult Series)

The 24TH Edition of Goldman's Cecil Medicine symbolizes a time of extraordinary advances in medicine and in technological innovations for the dissemination of information. This textbook and its associated electronic products incorporate the latest medical knowledge in formats that are designed to appeal to learners who prefer to access information in a variety of ways.

The contents of Cecil have remained true to the tradition of a comprehensive textbook of medicine that carefully explains the why (the underlying normal physiology and pathophysiology of disease, now at the cellular and molecular as well as the organ level) and the how (now frequently based on Grade A evidence from randomized controlled trials). Descriptions of physiology and pathophysiology include the latest genetic advances in a practical format that strives to be useful to the nonexpert.

Medicine has entered an era when the acuity of illness and the limited time available to evaluate a patient have diminished the ability of physicians to satisfy their intellectual curiosity. As a result, the acquisition of information, quite easily achieved in this era, is often confused with knowledge. We have attempted to counteract this tendency with a textbook that not only informs but also stimulates new questions and gives a glimpse of the future path to new knowledge. Grade A evidence is specifically highlighted in the text and referenced at the end of each chapter. In addition to the information provided in the textbook, the Cecil website supplies expanded content and functionality. In many cases, the full articles referenced in each chapter can be accessed from the Cecil website. The website is also continuously updated to incorporate subsequent Grade A information, other evidence, and new discoveries.

The sections for each organ system begin with a chapter that summarizes an approach to patients with key symptoms, signs, or laboratory abnormalities associated with dysfunction of that organ system. As summarized in Table 1-1, the text specifically provides clear, concise information regarding how a physician should approach more than 100 common symptoms, signs, and laboratory abnormalities, usually with a flow diagram, a table, or both for easy reference. In this way, Cecil remains a comprehensive text to guide diagnosis and therapy, not only for patients with suspected or known diseases but also for patients who may have undiagnosed abnormalities that require an initial evaluation.

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Contents

Volume 1

Section 1 - Social and Ethical Issues in Medicine

Chapter 1 - Approach to Medicine, the Patient, and the Medical Profession
Chapter 2 - Bioethics in the Practice of Medicine
Chapter 3 - Care of Dying Patients and Their Families
Chapter 4 - Cultural Context of Medicine
Chapter 5 - Socioeconomic Issues in Medicine

Section 2 - Principles of Evaluation and Management

Chapter 6 - Approach to the Patient
Chapter 7 - Approach to the Patient with Abnormal Vital Signs
Chapter 8 - Statistical Interpretation of Data
Chapter 8 - Statistical Interpretation of Data
Chapter 9 - Using Data for Clinical Decisions
Chapter 10 - Measuring Health and Health Care
Chapter 11 - Quality of Care and Patient Safety
Chapter 12 - Comprehensive Chronic Disease Management

Section 3 - Preventive and Environmental Issues

Chapter 13 - Counseling for Behavior Change
Chapter 14 - The Periodic Health Examination
Chapter 15 - Physical Activity
Chapter 16 - Adolescent Medicine
Chapter 17 - Immunization
Chapter 18 - Principles of Occupational and Environmental Medicine
Chapter 19 - Radiation Injury
Chapter 20 - Bioterrorism
Chapter 21 - Chronic Poisoning

Section 4 - Aging and Geriatric Medicine

Chapter 22 - Epidemiology of Aging
Chapter 23 - Geriatric Assessment
Chapter 24 - Common Clinical Sequelae of Aging
Chapter 25 - Incontinence
Chapter 26 - Neuropsychiatric Aspects of Aging
Chapter 27 - Delirium or Acute Mental Status Change in the Older Patient

Section 5 - Clinical Pharmacology

Chapter 28 - Principles of Drug Therapy
Chapter 29 - Pain
Chapter 30 - Biology of Addiction
Chapter 31 - Nicotine and Tobacco
Chapter 32 - Alcohol Abuse and Dependence
Chapter 33 - Drug Abuse and Dependence
Chapter 34 - Immunosuppressing Drugs Including Corticosteroids
Chapter 35 - Biologic Agents
Chapter 36 - Prostanoids, Aspirin, and Related Compounds
Chapter 37 - Antithrombotic Therapy
Chapter 38 - Complementary and Alternative Medicine

Section 6 - Genetics

Chapter 39 - Principles of Genetics
Chapter 40 - Gene, Genomic, and Chromosomal Disorders
Chapter 41 - The Inherited Basis of Common Diseases
Chapter 42 - Application of Molecular Technologies to Clinical Medicine
Chapter 43 - Cell and Gene Therapy

Section 7 - Principles of Immunology and Inflammation

Chapter 44 - The Innate and Adaptive Immune Systems
Chapter 45 - The Major Histocompatibility Complex
Chapter 46 - Mechanisms of Immune-Mediated Tissue Injury
Chapter 47 - Mechanisms of Inflammation and Tissue Repair
Chapter 48 - Transplantation Immunology
Chapter 49 - Complement in Health and Disease

Section 8 - Cardiovascular Disease
Section 9 - Respiratory Diseases
Section 10 - Critical Care Medicine

Chapter 102 - Approach to the Patient in a Critical Care Setting
Chapter 103 - Respiratory Monitoring in Critical Care
Chapter 104 - Acute Respiratory Failure
Chapter 105 - Mechanical Ventilation
Chapter 106 - Approach to the Patient with Shock
Chapter 107 - Cardiogenic Shock
Chapter 108 - Shock Syndromes Related to Sepsis
Chapter 109 - Disorders Due to Heat and Cold
Chapter 110 - Acute Poisoning
Chapter 111 - Electric Injury
Chapter 112 - Medical Aspects of Trauma and Burn Care
Chapter 113 - Venomous Snake Bites
Chapter 114 - Venoms and Poisons from Marine Organisms
Chapter 115 - Rhabdomyolysis

Section 11 - Renal and Genitourinary Diseases
Section 12 - Gastrointestinal Diseases
Section 13 - Diseases of the Liver, Gallbladder, and Bile Ducts
Section 14 - Hematologic Diseases
Section 15 - Oncology

Volume 2

Section 16 - Metabolic Diseases
Section 17 - Nutritional Diseases
Section 18 - Endocrine Diseases
Section 19 - Women's Health
Section 20 - Diseases of Bone and Mineral Metabolism
Section 21 - Diseases of Allergy and Clinical Immunology
Section 22 - Rheumatic Diseases
Section 23 - Infectious Diseases

Chapter 286 - Introduction to Microbial Disease
Chapter 287 - Principles of Anti-Infective Therapy
Chapter 288 - Approach to Fever or Suspected Infection in the Normal Host
Chapter 289 - Approach to Fever and Suspected Infection in the Compromised Host
Chapter 290 - Prevention and Control of Health Care–Associated Infections
Chapter 291 - Approach to the Patient with Suspected Enteric Infection
Chapter 292 - Approach to the Patient with Urinary Tract Infection
Chapter 293 - Approach to the Patient with a Sexually Transmitted Disease
Chapter 294 - Approach to the Patient before and after Travel
Chapter 295 - Antibacterial Chemotherapy
Chapter 296 - Staphylococcal Infections
Chapter 297 - Streptococcus Pneumoniae Infections
Chapter 298 - Nonpneumococcal StreptoCOccal Infections, Rheumatic Fever
Chapter 299 - Enterococcal Infections
Chapter 300 - Diphtheria and Other Corynebacteria Infections
Chapter 301 - Listeriosis
Chapter 302 - Anthrax
Chapter 303 - Erysipelothrix Infections
Chapter 304 - Clostridial Infections
Chapter 305 - Diseases Caused by Non–Spore-Forming Anaerobic Bacteria
Chapter 306 - Neisseria Meningitidis Infections
Chapter 307 - Neisseria Gonorrhoeae Infections
Chapter 308 - Haemophilus and Moraxella Infections
Chapter 309 - Chancroid
Chapter 310 - Cholera and Other Vibrio Infections
Chapter 311 - Campylobacter Infections
Chapter 312 - Escherichia Coli Enteric Infections
Chapter 313 - Infections Due to Other Members of the Enterobacteriaceae, Including Management of Multidrug-Resistant Strains
Chapter 314 - Pseudomonas and Related Gram-Negative Bacillary Infections
Chapter 315 - Diseases Caused By Acinetobacter and Stenotrophomonas Species
Chapter 316 - Salmonella Infections (Including Typhoid Fever)
Chapter 317 - Shigellosis
Chapter 318 - Brucellosis
Chapter 319 - Tularemia and Other Francisella Infections
Chapter 320 - Plague and Other Yersinia Infections
Chapter 321 - Whooping Cough and Other Bordetella Infections
Chapter 322 - Legionella Infections
Chapter 323 - Bartonella Infections
Chapter 324 - Granuloma Inguinale (Donovanosis)
Chapter 325 - Mycoplasma Infections
Chapter 326 - Diseases Caused By Chlamydiae
Chapter 327 - Syphilis
Chapter 328 - Nonsyphilitic Treponematoses
Chapter 329 - Lyme Disease
Chapter 330 - Relapsing Fever and Other Borrelia Infections
Chapter 331 - Leptospirosis
Chapter 332 - Tuberculosis
Chapter 333 - The Nontuberculous Mycobacteria
Chapter 334 - Leprosy (Hansen's Disease)
Chapter 335 - Rickettsial Infections
Chapter 336 - Zoonoses
Chapter 337 - Actinomycosis
Chapter 338 - Nocardiosis
Chapter 339 - Systemic Antifungal Agents
Chapter 340 - Histoplasmosis
Chapter 341 - Coccidioidomycosis
Chapter 342 - Blastomycosis
Chapter 343 - Paracoccidioidomycosis
Chapter 344 - Cryptococcosis
Chapter 345 - Sporotrichosis
Chapter 346 - Candidiasis
Chapter 347 - Aspergillosis
Chapter 348 - Mucormycosis
Chapter 349 - Pneumocystis Pneumonia
Chapter 350 - Mycetoma
Chapter 351 - Dematiaceous Fungal Infections
Chapter 352 - Antiparasitic Therapy
Chapter 353 - Malaria
Chapter 354 - African Sleeping Sickness
Chapter 355 - Chagas’ Disease
Chapter 356 - Leishmaniasis
Chapter 357 - Toxoplasmosis
Chapter 358 - Cryptosporidiosis
Chapter 359 - Giardiasis
Chapter 360 - Amebiasis
Chapter 361 - Babesiosis and Other Protozoan Diseases
Chapter 362 - Cestodes
Chapter 363 - Schistosomiasis (Bilharziasis)
Chapter 364 - Liver, Intestinal, and Lung Fluke Infections
Chapter 365 - Intestinal Nematode Infections
Chapter 366 - Tissue Nematode Infections
Chapter 367 - Arthropods and Leeches
Chapter 368 - Antiviral Therapy (Non-HIV)
Chapter 369 - The Common Cold
Chapter 370 - Respiratory Syncytial Virus
Chapter 371 - Parainfluenza Viral Disease
Chapter 372 - Influenza
Chapter 373 - Adenovirus Diseases
Chapter 374 - Coronaviruses
Chapter 375 - Measles
Chapter 376 - Rubella (German Measles)
Chapter 377 - Mumps
Chapter 378 - Cytomegalovirus, Epstein-Barr Virus, and Slow Virus Infections of the Central Nervous System
Chapter 379 - Parvovirus
Chapter 380 - Smallpox, Monkeypox, and Other Poxvirus Infections
Chapter 381 - Papillomavirus
Chapter 382 - Herpes Simplex Virus Infections
Chapter 383 - Varicella-Zoster Virus (Chickenpox, Shingles)
Chapter 384 - Cytomegalovirus
Chapter 385 - Epstein-Barr Virus Infection
Chapter 386 - Retroviruses Other Than Human Immunodeficiency Virus
Chapter 387 - Enteroviruses
Chapter 388 - Rotaviruses, Noroviruses, and Other Gastrointestinal Viruses
Chapter 389 - Viral Hemorrhagic Fevers
Chapter 390 - Arboviruses Causing Fever and Rash Syndromes
Chapter 391 - Arboviruses Affecting the Central Nervous System

Section 24 - HIV and the Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome
Section 25 - Neurology
Section 26 - Eye, Ear, Nose, and Throat Diseases
Section 27 - Medical Consultation

About the Author

An Elsevier Author, Lee Goldman, M.D., MPH, joined Columbia in 2006 as the Harold and Margaret Hatch Professor, Executive Vice President for Health and Biomedical Sciences, and Dean of the Faculties of Health Sciences and Medicine. He received his BA, MD, and MPH degrees from Yale. He did his internal medicine training at UCSF and MGH, and his cardiology training at Yale. From 1978-1995, positions at Harvard included Professor of Medicine and Professor of Epidemiology, while positions at Brigham and Women's Hospital included Vice Chair of Medicine and Chief Medical Officer. From 1995-2006, he was the Julius R. Krevans Professor, Chair of Medicine, and Associate Dean for Clinical Affairs at UCSF.

Dr. Goldman's research focuses on cardiac risk in non-cardiac surgery, determining which patients with chest pain require hospital admission, establishing priorities for the prevention and treatment of coronary disease, and the scientific basis for the now ubiquitous chest-pain evaluation units and the first academic hospitalist program. More than 45 trainees first-authored peer-reviewed publications under his mentorship.

Dr. Goldman is a member of the American Society for Clinical Investigation; past President of the Association of American Physicians, the Society of General Internal Medicine, and the Association of Professors of Medicine; and a member of the Institute of Medicine. He received the highest awards of the Society of General Internal Medicine (the Glaser Award), the American College of Physicians (the John Phillips Award), and the Association of Professors of Medicine (the Williams Award). Dr. Goldman is the lead editor of the Cecil Textbook of Medicine.

Product Details

Hardcover: 2704 pages
Publisher: Saunders; 24 edition (July 22, 2011)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1437716040
ISBN-13: 978-1437716047

List Price: $179.00

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