Description
A pocketbook for junior doctors on call, providing outline management for 47 acute medical conditions, based on the best evidence available.
Product Details
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9780443071782
9780443071782
Data sheet
- Publication date
- 2002
- Issue number
- 1
- Cover
- paperback
- Pages count
- 256
- Dimensions (mm)
- 123 x 186
- Weight (g)
- 280
- 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