Acute Medicine Pocketbook
- 1st Edition - May 16, 2002
- Authors: Christopher Ball, Robert Phillips
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 0 7 1 7 8 - 2
A pocketbook for junior doctors on call, providing outline management for 47 acute medical conditions, based on the best evidence… Read more
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Request a sales quoteA pocketbook for junior doctors on call, providing outline management for 47 acute medical conditions, based on the best evidence available.
- 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.
House officers, interns, first year senior house officers and residents
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
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
- No. of pages: 256
- Language: English
- Edition: 1
- Published: May 16, 2002
- Imprint: Churchill Livingstone
- Paperback ISBN: 9780443071782
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Christopher Ball
Affiliations and expertise
Junior Fellow, Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine, Oxford, UKRP
Robert Phillips
Affiliations and expertise
Junior Fellow, Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine, Oxford, UK