The Tarascon Hospital Medicine Pocketbook is an evidence-based, point-of-care compact reference book for the busy clinician to use on the hospital wards or in the ICU. This quick reference provides inpatient clinicians with critical information about the evaluation and management of every common medical disorder encountered in the hospital, including the most common conditions encountered in the ICU. This user-friendly pocketbook is packed with tables and algorithms intended to quickly direct the busy clinician to an evidence-based approach to manage any common medical condition.
The Tarascon Hospital Medicine Pocketbook is an essential guide for all practicing hospitalists, medical students, resident physicians and midlevel providers who work in the hospital setting.
Author(s): Joseph Esherick
Edition: 1
Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Learning
Year: 2010
Language: English
Tags: Hospital Medicine; Emergency Medical Services; Emergency Medicine; Internal Medicine
TITLE
COPYRIGHT
DEDICATION
CONTENTS
REVIEWERS
PREFACE
SECTION 1 CODE ALGORITHMS
FIGURE 1-1 PULSELESS ARREST ALGORITHRITHM
FIGURE 1-2 NARROW-COMPLEX TACHYCARDIA WITH A PULSE
FIGURE 1-3 WIDE-COMPLEX TACHYCARDIA WITH A PULSE
FIGURE 1-4 BRADYCARDIA ALGORITHM
TABLE 1-1 BASIC LIFE SUPPORT FOR HEALTHCARE PROVIDERS
SECTION 2 GENERAL ISSUES IN HOSPITAL MEDICINE
NUTRITIONAL GUIDELINES FOR HOSPITALIZED PATIENTS
PAIN MANAGEMENT IN THE HOSPITALIZED PATIENT
ETHICAL ISSUES IN THE HOSPITAL
PALLIATIVE AND END-OF-LIFE CARE IN THE HOSPITAL
SECTION 3 BASICS OF HOSPITAL CAE OF THE GERIATRIC PATIENT
FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT OF ELDERLY PATIENTS
PRESSURE ULCERS
INTERVENTIONS TO PREVENT NOSOCOMIAL COMPLICATIONS IN THE HOSPITAL
SECTION 4 CARDIOLOGY
TABLT 4-1 LIFE-THREATENING CAUSES OF CHEST PAIN
FIGURE 4-1 ST-ELEVATION MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION
TABLE 4-7 NON-LIFE THREATENING CAUSES OF CHEST PAIN
HEART FAILURE (HF)
ATRIAL FIBRILLATION
WIDE-COMPLEX TACHYCARDIAS
INDICATIONS FOR PACEMAKERS AND DEFIBRILLATORS
ACUTE PERICARDITIS
VALVULAR HEART DISEASE: AORTIC STENOSIS
VALVULAR HEART DISEASE: AORTIC INSUFFICIENCY
VALVULAR HEART DISEASE: MITRAL STENOSIS (MS)
VALVULAR HEART DISEASE: MITRAL REGURGITATION (MR)
HYPERTENSION
AORTIC DISSECTION
PERIPHERAL ARTERIAL DISEASE (PAD)
SYNCOPE
AORTIC ANEURYSMS
SECTION 5 CRITICAL CARE MEDICINE
SEVERE SEPSIS AND SEPTIC SHOCK
SHOCK
HYPERTENSIVE EMERGENCIES
ACUTE RESPIRATORY FAILURE
MECHANICAL VENTILATION
NONINVASIVE VENTILATION
ACUTE INTRACRANIAL HEMORRHAGE
TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY (TBI)
APPROACH TO THE POISONED PATIENT
SNAKE BITES AND MARINE ENVENOMATIONS
SEROTONIN AND NEUROLEPTIC MALIGNANT SYNDROMES
ENVIRONMENTAL EMERGENCIES
SEDATION AND PAIN MANAGEMENT IN THE ICU
ABSTINENCE SYNDROMES
DIABETIC KETOACIDOSIS
HYPERGLYCEMIC HYPEROSMOLAR STATE
VENTILATOR-ASSOCIATED PNEUMONIAS
BRAIN DEATH DETERMINATION
EVALUATION OF THE COMATOSE PATIENT
SECTION 6 PERIOPERATIVE CARE AND CONSULTATIVE MEDICINE
PERIOPERATIVE CARDIOVASCULAR EVALUATION AND MANAGEMENT
PERIOPERATIVE PULMONARY EVALUATION AND MANAGEMENT
PERIOPERATIVE MANAGEMENT OF ANTICOAGULATION AND ANTITHROMBOTICS
PERIOPERATIVE MANAGEMENT OF THE DIABETIC PATIENT
INPATIENT MANAGEMENT OF PATIENTS USING CHRONIC CORTICOSTEROIDS
MANAGEMENT OF PATIENTS WITH PSYCHIATRIC SYMPTOMS
MEDICAL COMPLICATIONS IN PREGNANCY
PERIOPERATIVE MANAGEMENT OF THE CIRRHOTIC PATIENT
SECTION 7 DERMATOLOGY
DERMATOLOGIC EMERGENCIES IN THE HOSPITAL
URTICARIA
ANGIOEDEMA
BULLOUS PEMPHIGOID (BP)
PEMPHIGUS VULGARIS (PV)
STEVENS-JOHNSON SYNDROME (SJS)
TOXIC EPIDERMAL NECROLYSIS (TEN)
ACUTE BURNS
FIGURE 7-1 RULE OF NINES DIAGRAM FOR BURNS
SECTION 8 ENDOCRINOLOGY
INPATIENT MANAGEMENT OF DIABETES
HYPERTHYROIDISM AND THYROID STORM
HYPOTHYROIDISM AND MYXEDEMA COMA
ADRENAL INSUFFICIENCY AND ADRENAL CRISIS
CALCIUM DISORDERS
HYPONATREMIA
HYPERNATREMIA
POTASSIUM DISORDERS
HYPOPITUITARISM
SECTION 9 GASTROENTEROLOLOGY
UPPER GASTROINTESTINAL BLEEDING (UGIB)
LOWER GASTROINTESTINAL BLEEDING (LGIB)
ACUTE DIARRHEA
HEPATITIS
CIRRHOSIS
ACUTE ABDOMINAL PAIN
HELICOBACTER PYLORI INFECTION
ACUTE PANCREATITIS
INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASE
ESOPHAGEAL DISORDERS
ACUTE MESENTERIC ISCHEMIA
ISCHEMIC COLITIS
DIVERTICULITIS
BOWEL OBSTRUCTION
BILIARY TRACT DISORDERS
SECTION 10 HEMATOLOGY
TRANSFUSION MEDICINE
ANEMIA
SICKLE CELL ANEMIA
THROMBOCYTOPENIA
PANCYTOPENIA
BLEEDING DISORDERS
HYPERCOAGULABLE STATES
VENOUS THROMBOEMBOLISM
SECTION 11 INFECTIOUS DISEASE
COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED PNEUMONIA
HEALTHCARE-ASSOCIATED AND HOSPITAL-ASSOCIATED PNEUMONIAS
URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS: CYSTITIS AND PYELONEPHRITIS
SKIN AND SOFT TISSUE INFECTIONS
MENINGITIS
INFECTIVE ENDOCARDITIS
OSTEOMYELITIS
MANAGEMENT OF CATHETER-RELATED BLOODSTREAM INFECTIONS (CRBSI)
SEPTIC ARTHRITIS
WORKUP OF FEVER IN THE HOSPITALIZED PATIENT
MANAGEMENT OF INVASIVE FUNGAL INFECTIONS
INFECTIONS IN HIV-POSITIVE PATIENTS
SECTION 12 NEUROLOGY
ACUTE ISCHEMIC STROKE OR TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK
STATUS EPILEPTICUS
DEMENTIA
DELIRIUM
WEAKNESS
SECTION 13 ONCOLOGY
ADVERSE EFFECTS OF CHEMOTHERAPEUTIC AGENTS
ONCOLOGICAL EMERGENCIES
OTHER GENERAL RULES OF THUMB FOR CLINICAL ONCOLOGY
MANAGEMENT OF COMMON CHEMOTHERAPY- OR RADIATION-ASSOCIATED PROBLEMS
SECTION 14 PSYCHIATRY
SOMATOFORM DISORDERS
MALINGERING AND FACTITIOUS DISORDERS
ANTIDEPRESSANTS, ANTIPSYCHOTICS, ANXIOLYTICS
SECTION 15 PULMONARY MEDICINE
MANAGEMENT OF ASTHMA EXACERBATIONS
CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE PULMONARY DISEASE (COPD)
EVALUATION OF PLEURAL EFFUSION
PNEUMOTHORAX
INTERSTITIAL LUNG DISEASE
PULMONARY HYPERTENSION
HEMOPTYSIS
SECTION 16 RENAL MEDICINE
ACUTE KIDNEY INJURY
CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE (CKD)
NEPHROTIC SYNDROME
ACID–BASE INTERPRETATION
SECTION 17 RHEUMATOLOGY
FIGURE 17-2 APPROACH TO MONOARTICULAR ARHRITIS
TABLE 17-1 DIFFERENT CAUSES OF POLYARTHRITIS
TABLE 17-2 RHEUMATOLOGY SEROLOGIC TESTS REFERENCE CARD
VASCULITIS
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