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Acute Medicine Pocketbook

  • 1 Edición - 16 de mayo de 2002
  • Última edición
  • Autores: Christopher Ball, Robert Phillips
  • Idioma: Inglés

A pocketbook for junior doctors on call, providing outline management for 47 acute medical conditions, based on the best evidence… Leer más

Descripción

A pocketbook for junior doctors on call, providing outline management for 47 acute medical conditions, based on the best evidence available.

Puntos claves

  • Features the expertise of two reviewers from the Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine at Oxford, who were advised by Dr. David L. Sackett, one of the "founding fathers" of EBM.
  • Offers brief, practical guidance that is suitable for instant reference.
  • Reflects the best available evidence, culled from searches and appraisals that were carried out according to approved EBM criteria.
  • Requires no prior knowledge of EBM or statistics.
  • Includes boxes containing clinical tips and warnings.

De interès para

House officers, interns, first year senior house officers and residents

Índice

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

Detalles del producto

  • Edición: 1
  • Última edición
  • Publicado: 16 de mayo de 2002
  • Idioma: Inglés

Sobre los autores

CB

Christopher Ball

Afiliaciones y experiencia
Junior Fellow, Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine, Oxford, UK

RP

Robert Phillips

Afiliaciones y experiencia
Junior Fellow, Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine, Oxford, UK