Acute Medicine Pocketbook: Evidence-based on Call by Christopher Ball
This is a pocketbook for junior doctors on call, providing outline management for 47 acute medical conditions, based on the best evidence available.
Acute Medicine Pocketbook
Summary
A pocketbook for junior doctors on call, providing outline management for 47 acute medical conditions, based on the best evidence available.
Acute Medicine Pocketbook Summary
About Christopher Ball
Ball and Phillips are editors of a larger book, Acute Medicine, which will be the first book in the Evidence-Based On-Call series, to be published by Churchill Livingstone in early 2001.
Table of Contents
How to use this book 1. Alcohol withdrawal 2. Anaemia 3. Anaphlaxis shock 4. Aortic dissection 5. Asthma exacerbation 6. Unstable angina and non Q-wave myocardial infarction 7. Atrial fibrillation 8. Bradyarrthythmias 9. CO positioning 10. Cardiac arrest 11. Cellulitis 12. Chest pain 13. Chronic liver failure 14. Exacerbation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease 15. Coma 16. Deep venous thrombosis 17. Delirium 18. Diabetic ketoacidosis 19. Drugs 20. Giant cell arteritis 21. Congestive heart failure 22. Hypercalcaemia 23. Hyperkalaemia 24. Hypertensive crisis 25. Hypoglycaemia 26. Hyponatraemia 27. Infective endocarditis 28. Inflammatory bowel disease 29. Meningitis 30. Myocardial infarction 31. Pleural effusions 32. Community acquired pneumonia 33. Spontaneous pneumothorax 34. Pulmonary embolism 35. Acute renal failure 36. Sickle cell crisis 37. Status epilepticus 38. Stroke 39. Syncope 40. Tachycardias 41. Upper gastrointestinal bleeding Appendix 1: Levels of evidence Appendix 2: Abbreviations used
Additional information
GOR003069941
9780443071782
0443071780
Acute Medicine Pocketbook: Evidence-based on Call by Christopher Ball
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Elsevier Health Sciences
2002-05-16
256
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