Pfenninger and Fowler's Procedures for Primary Care by John L. Pfenninger, Grant C. Fowler, Grant C. Fowler

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Synopsis

Dr. Pfenninger, one of the lead author's on this book, is the recent recepient of the 2005 Teaching Excellence Award from the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine and the 2005 Thomas W. Johnson Award for Career Contributions to Family Medicine Education. His book, Primary Care Procedures 2E, is comprehensive, "how-to" resource offers step-by-step strategies for nearly every outpatient procedure that can be performed in an office, hospital or emergency care facility. Designed for everyday practice, the outline format allows speedy reference while the detailed text and clear illustrations guide readers through each procedure. The new edition of this best-selling book features more than 80 new procedures on hot topics relevant to primary care practice.

• The easy-to-use outline format allows speedy reference, while the detailed text thoroughly explains each procedure.
• Boxes and tables throughout highlight important information in at-a-glance summaries.
• Includes patient teaching guides for each procedure covered.

• More than 80 new chapters and procedures, including hot topics such as: conscious sedation, burn treatment, tissue adhesives, candida treatment for warts, and aesthetic procedures including hair removal, Botox injection, micro dermabrasive, collagen injection, skin peels, and more.
• Hundreds of new illustrations, and over 200 improved 2-color illustrations clearly highlight visual aspects of conditions and clarify key ideas.
• More detailed discussions of patient education and medical coding shed more light on these aspects of practice.
• New sturdy flexbind cover stands up to daily use.

Annotation

The book contains black-and-white illustrations.

Doody Review Services

Reviewer: Isaac Kleinman, MD (Baylor College of Medicine)
Description: This text is a compendium of diagnostic and therapeutic procedures useful to practicing general physicians, residents, and medical students. Most of the procedures described are office procedures, but several day surgery or outpatient surgical and diagnostic procedures are presented as well.
Purpose: The purpose is to provide instruction in surgical and diagnostic procedures within the scope of the practicing general physician with the intent of upgrading and propagating those skills in family medicine, thereby serving as a contribution to the "resuscitation of full-service family practice within a medical education system gone far, far astray."
Audience: The book should have a broad audience of medical students, family practice residents, family physicians, and practitioners of general medicine. It would be of interest as well to pediatricians and dermatology students.
Features: The volume is organized by medical-anatomic systems (skin, reproductive organs, cardiorespiratory, obstetrical, gastrointestinal, etc.) with each section subdivided into multiple chapters, each of which is devoted to a single procedure. The range of topics is very broad and includes simple skin biopsy, frenotomy, arterial cannulation, Swan-Ganz insertion, removal of foreign bodies from body orifices, stress testing, vasectomy, and techniques of cautery, cryosurgery, and sclerotherapy. Where appropriate, alternate techniques are presented. Indications, contraindications, needed equipment, patient positioning (where indicated), caveats, and pitfalls are outlined alongwith the technique. Pathophysiology is often briefly discussed. Patient education materials, both preprocedure and postprocedure, are provided for most techniques. Sources for equipment are often given. A handy feature is the provision of the applicable CPT billing codes at the end of each chapter.
Assessment: This is a superb text, and there is little to criticize. It might have benefited from a few more illustrations here and there. Any reviewer might have a pet procedure that was not included, but this text is by far the most complete of its kind. This is an excellent publication and is highly recommended.

Biography

Director, The National Procedures Institute, Midland, MI; Clinical Professor, Department of Family Practice, Michigan State College of Human Medicine, East Lansing, MI

Professor and Vice Chair, Department of Family Practice & Community Medicine, University of Texas Houston Health Science Center Medical School, Houston, TX