Peripheral vascular disease is very common in elderly people, and careful assessment of vascular structure, function, and integrity is an important clinical skill. The peripheral vascular examination ...

SM Russell Thieme Medical Publishers, Inc., 333 Seventh Av, New York, NY 10001, 178 Pages GTV ISBN: 978-3-13-143071-7 The author intended the book to teach the reader how to examine patients with a ...

Neuropathy means nerve disease or damage. Specific damage to one or more of the peripheral nerves, that can cause weakness, numbness, pain and a pricking sensation, especially in the extremities is ...

Palpate the temporal arteries immediately in front of the tragus of the ear and up along the temple. Always check these pulses in an elderly patient with headache or unilateral visual changes or when ...