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The Osler Medical Handbook
- 1st Edition
- Authors: The Johns Hopkins Hospital, Alan Cheng, Aimee Zaas
- Language: English
This brand-new handbook covers all of the essential topics encountered in the daily practice, written by contributors from the Johns Hopkins Hospital. A volume in the Mosby… Read more
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This brand-new handbook covers all of the essential topics encountered in the daily practice, written by contributors from the Johns Hopkins Hospital. A volume in the Mosby Handbook series, it concisely discusses all diseases and disorders in an easy-to-follow, standardized outline format. Readers will find all of the features that have made The Harriet Lane Handbook the most popular handbook in paediatrics. Within each chapter are sections on pearls and pitfalls, differential diagnoses, algorithms, and reviews of the most current literature. And, it includes a handy formulary with complete dosage information.
- Uses a consistent, templated format in each chapter that includes Fast Facts · Epidemiology · Clinical Presentation · Diagnostics · Management · Pearls & Pitfalls · and References.
- Presents a wealth of algorithms in each chapter that facilitate diagnosis and management.Integrates evidence-based medicine and rationales throughout, with conclusions based on current, key references which are cited at each chapter's end.Includes a handy formulary at the end of the book, for instant access to dosage information.
- Cross references text to the appropriate information in the drug formulary.
- Discusses co-morbitities in each chapter as well as at-risk populations.
- Offers a "Fast Facts" section that provides appendices on lab values · pregnancy and medical therapeutics · drug interactions · IV preparation and administration · drugs in renal failure · immunization therapies · infection control · and critical care formulas.
Primary: Medical House Officers, House Staff, and Hospitalists
Secondary: Residents in Family Practice, Medical Students FP's, GP's, Nurse Practitioners, PA's
Secondary: Residents in Family Practice, Medical Students FP's, GP's, Nurse Practitioners, PA's
PART I ACUTE CARE OF THE ADULT PATIENT
1. Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation and Advanced Cardiac Life Support (Emergency Management—including management of tachycardias)
2. Procedures
3. Care of the Hospitalized Patient
PART II DIAGNOSTIC AND THERAPEUTIC INFORMATION
4. Allergy and Immunology
5. Cardiology
6. Dermatology
7. Endocrinology and Metabolism
8. Gastroenterology
9. Hematology
10. HIV-Related Infectious Diseases
11. Infectious Diseases
12. Nephrology and Electrolytes
13. Neurology and Psychiatry
14. Nutrition
15. Oncology
16. Pulmonology
17. Rheumatology
18. Toxicology
PART III FORMULARY
PART IV FAST FACTS AND FORMULAS
1. Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation and Advanced Cardiac Life Support (Emergency Management—including management of tachycardias)
2. Procedures
3. Care of the Hospitalized Patient
PART II DIAGNOSTIC AND THERAPEUTIC INFORMATION
4. Allergy and Immunology
5. Cardiology
6. Dermatology
7. Endocrinology and Metabolism
8. Gastroenterology
9. Hematology
10. HIV-Related Infectious Diseases
11. Infectious Diseases
12. Nephrology and Electrolytes
13. Neurology and Psychiatry
14. Nutrition
15. Oncology
16. Pulmonology
17. Rheumatology
18. Toxicology
PART III FORMULARY
PART IV FAST FACTS AND FORMULAS
- Language: English
- Edition: 1
- Published:
- Imprint: Mosby
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Alan Cheng
Affiliations and expertise
Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MDAZ
Aimee Zaas
Affiliations and expertise
Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD