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Diagnosketch: A Visual Guide to Medical Diagnosis for the Non-Medical Audience de Sapana Adhikari

Diagnosketch: A Visual Guide to Medical Diagnosis for the Non-Medical Audience

Autor Sapana Adhikari
en Limba Engleză Spirală – 22 dec 2022

Reținem că Diagnosketch se definește prin cele 100 de ilustrații color care transformă termenii medicali abstracți în concepte vizuale accesibile. Credem că forța acestui volum rezidă în capacitatea sa de a simplifica anatomia și fiziopatologia, eliminând detaliile irelevante clinic în favoarea unor reprezentări memorabile. Concepută de Sapana Adhikari, un medic cu două decenii de experiență în medicina de urgență, lucrarea servește drept punte de comunicare între personalul medical și pacienți, reducând anxietatea acestora prin claritate vizuală.

Structura pe spirală este ideală pentru utilizarea rapidă în camerele de gardă sau clinici de asistență medicală urgentă, permițând expunerea facilă a imaginilor în timpul consultației. Volumul acoperă afecțiuni „bread and butter” ale medicinei acute, de la dureri de spate și calculi biliari până la artrită, oferind nu doar diagrame de diagnostic, ci și reprezentări ale procedurilor. Ca alternativă la Visual Diagnosis in Emergency and Critical Care Medicine pentru rezidenți, Diagnosketch are avantajul unui format orientat exclusiv către educația pacientului, simplificând informația pentru a fi înțeleasă de oricine, indiferent de bagajul de cunoștințe medicale. Spre deosebire de Practical Guide to Visualizing Medicine, care se concentrează pe interpretarea imagisticii de către profesioniști, lucrarea de față este un instrument de alfabetizare medicală, punând accent pe experiența umană a diagnosticului.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780197636954
ISBN-10: 0197636950
Pagini: 152
Ilustrații: 100 color illustrations
Dimensiuni: 275 x 226 x 11 mm
Greutate: 0.57 kg
Editura: Oxford University Press
Colecția OUP USA
Locul publicării:New York, United States

De ce să citești această carte

Recomandăm această carte medicilor de gardă, asistentelor și studenților care doresc să își îmbunătățească abilitățile de comunicare. Diagnosketch oferă un avantaj concret în gestionarea relației cu pacientul: posibilitatea de a explica vizual, în câteva secunde, ce se întâmplă în corpul acestuia. Este o investiție în calitatea actului medical și în reducerea timpului de explicare a diagnosticelor complexe în situații de criză.

Despre autor

Sapana Adhikari este medic specialist în medicină de urgență cu o experiență clinică de peste 20 de ani. Dincolo de activitatea medicală, aceasta este ilustrator, utilizându-și talentul artistic pentru a traduce jargonul medical complex în imagini ușor de asimilat. Expertiza sa acumulată în unitățile de primiri urgențe i-a permis să identifice exact acele puncte de confuzie ale pacienților, creând prin Diagnosketch un instrument care transcende barierele lingvistice și culturale în mediul spitalicesnic.

Descriere

Diagnosketch is a one-of-a-kind visual book that helps explain medical diagnoses to a non-medical audience. It simplifies human anatomy and pathophysiology into memorable, patient-friendly, understandable images. It intentionally leaves out details that are not clinically relevant and over-emphasizes ones that are. Created and illustrated by an ER physician with 20 years of clinical experience, Diagnosketch covers bread and butter diagnoses seen in acute care settings: kidney stones, diverticulitis, back pain, gallstones, ovarian cysts, arthritis, and more. It contains diagnostic images, procedural images, and concept images that are useful at different stages of a patient encounter.Medical professionals use this guide, at the bedside, to better communicate with patients in various acute care settings, like Emergency Rooms and Urgent Care Clinics.

Recenzii

I use Diagnosketch on every shift, every day. We find this the single most useful and efficient tool at the bedside to help patients understand what is happening to their bodies.
As a nurse who spends a fair amount of time educating patients and their families, this book is a brilliant idea! It allows me the opportunity to impact patients' understanding of their disease, and is an excellent resource in triage.
This book is equally as useful to patients as it is to doctors. The illustrations cover the most common diagnoses in the ED and reflect the diversity of patients we see every day. Everyone will find themselves represented here.
I love this book, there are so many great visuals for the bread and butter of what we see and explain all of the time. What a great resource!
Not only does Diagnosketch help patients understand their anatomy, it also gives physicians, nurses, PAs, and others the opportunity to maximize the use of the very small amount of time they have with their patients. With this book at the bedside, we can be more efficient and patients leave with a better understanding of their ED visit.
Physicians are expected to provide excellent medical care, but it is equally important for them to explain diagnoses and treatments in a manner that gives the non-medical both understanding and reassurance. Diagnosketch uses simple illustrations and text to bridge the communication gap between physician and patient so that even complex issues can be comprehended at the bedside. This will prove to be an essential tool for every emergency department.
This book is an extremely helpful tool for real-time patient education, there is really nothing available that is comparable to Diagnosketch. It is the best resource for concise and easy-to-understand explanations for patients of their diagnoses, while still maintaining medical accuracy and an appropriate level of detail. It helps me get through to my patients and makes bedside education much smoother and more meaningful.
I could really have used these illustrations to explain to my patient with an ovarian cyst what was going on! She was in the hospital with her dad and the doctor here was a man. I had to give the poor girl a crash course in A&P, menstruation, and explain what was going on without scaring her to death. My artwork is subpar at best, I really wish I had this book!
I use Diagnosketch not only with my patients at work but also to explain my job to my children at home. It's a fantastic teaching tool!
This book is amazing! The simplicity of it, with the wonderful illustrations, makes this an awesome teaching tool for our patients. I can't wait to share this with my team.
I work in a rural outpatient clinic setting and make rough drawings on my own all day for patients on the paper covering the tables or the back of glove boxes. I really enjoy this book; patients find the pictures easy-to-understand and I like how clear they are.
This book replaces the need to pull up Google at the bedside to search for images. All common diagnoses are compiled and easy-to-understand!
Diagnosketch takes the nebulous and sometimes frightening terms we use in medicine and paints a clear picture for the patient, helping to remove the anxiety of not understanding what a diagnosis means. The illustrations are universally applicable, transcend different languages and cultures, and demystify the human body and its most common maladies.

Notă biografică

Sapana Adhikari is a board-certified Emergency Medicine physician. She attended the Boston University School of Medicine and completed her residency at Boston Medical Center. Throughout her 20 year career, she has practiced clinically in various settings ranging from inner-city trauma centers to rural hospitals in the developing world. She is involved with international health and runs a non-profit organization, smartketi, that focuses on women empowerment in rural Nepal. She is an accomplished artist whose work has been featured in The National Academy of Medicine, Intima: The Journal of Narrative Medicine and the Frederic Jameson Gallery at Duke University. She lives in Charlotte, NC with her husband and three children.