Acute Medicine 2e is a current and concise guide to hospital emergency medicine for registrars, junior doctors and medical students working on the wards. This new edition has been comprehensively revised and updated to incorporate the latest treatment guidelines. It has been substantially rewritten and streamlined to enable the reader to access the pertinent information even more quickly.
It is not just a list of instructions, but contains pathophysiology and useful clinical pearls:
• detailed management of acute medical and surgical emergencies, including in pregnancy
• general ward management issues
• descriptions of key procedures
• normal laboratory values
• emergency drug formulary
Author(s): Declan O’Kane
Edition: 2nd
Publisher: Scion Publishing
Year: 2017
Language: English
Pages: 786
1 Resuscitation
2 The acutely ill patient
3 Cardiology emergencies
4 Respiratory emergencies
5 Endocrine and diabetic emergencies
6 Gastroenterology emergencies
7 Hepatobiliary emergencies
8 Haematological emergencies
9 Infectious disease emergencies
10 Renal and urological emergencies
11 Neurological emergencies
12 Rheumatological emergencies
13 Ophthalmological emergencies
14 Toxicology emergencies
15 Medical emergencies in pregnancy
16 Oncological emergencies
17 Miscellaneous emergencies
18 Dermatological emergencies
19 General management
20 Procedures
21 Normal laboratory values
22 Emergency drugs (use with BNF)
