Titles in the Pocket Tutor series provide practical guidance on subjects that medical students and foundation doctors need assistance with ‘on the go’, at a highly-affordable price accessible to those rotating through modular courses or working on attachment.

Topics reflect the information needs arising from today’s integrated undergraduate and foundation courses:

• Common presentations
• Investigation options (e.g. ECG, imaging)
• Clinical and patient-orientated skills (e.g. examinations, history-taking)

The highly-structured, bite-size content helps novices overcome the 'fear factor' associated with day-to-day clinical training and offers a detailed resource that students and junior doctors can carry in their pocket.

Key points

• All hospital doctors deal with ABGs (arterial blood gases), but knowledge is often assumed, and students lack confidence in interpreting them.
• Logical, sequential content: covering relevant basic science, understanding normal results, and the foundations of abnormal results, followed by clinical disorders.
• Clinical disorders are illustrated by representative test results and brief accompanying text that clearly identifies the defining feature of the result (for instance, what is it that makes this diabetic ketoacidosis?).
• The fully-updated second edition features new sections on capillary blood gases, venous blood gases, obesity, and all illustrations now in full colour.