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Acute medicine : clinical cases uncovered / Chris Roseveare.
Holman Biotech Commons RC86.7 .R683 2009
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Roseveare, Chris.
- Series:
- Clinical cases uncovered
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Critical care medicine.
- Internal medicine.
- Acute Disease--therapy.
- Diagnosis, Differential.
- Emergency Medicine--methods.
- Emergency Treatment.
- Medical Subjects:
- Acute Disease--therapy.
- Diagnosis, Differential.
- Emergency Medicine--methods.
- Emergency Treatment.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 240 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Chichester, UK ; Hoboken, NJ : Wiley-Blackwell, 2009.
- Summary:
- Rehearse for life in clinical practice with this easy-to-use and unique series, which combines cases drawn from real-life experiences with a refreshing approach to presentations as you would see them in day-to-day situations.
- Acute Medicine is the central part of foundation and specialist general medical training and is one of the most rapidly expanding UK hospital specialties.
- Acute Medicine: Clinical Cases Uncovered combines patient cases and outcomes, drawn from real-life experiences, with reference to the curriculum for Training in General (Acute) Medicine. It provides self-assessment MCQs, EMQs and SAQs to give medical students, junior doctors, nurses and allied healthcare professionals the perfect preparation for life on the wards.
- Contents:
- Part 1 Basics 1
- Introduction and specialty overview 1
- Approach to the patient 5
- Part 2 Cases 28
- Case 1 A 45-year-old man with 'cardiac-type' chest pain 28
- Case 2 A 35-year-old woman with 'pleuritic' chest pain 37
- Case 3 A 50-year-old man presenting with palpitations 47
- Case 4 A 60-year-old man with a broad complex tachycardia 56
- Case 5 A 25-year-old woman with acute asthma 62
- Case 6 A 60-year-old woman with an 'exacerbation' of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease 70
- Case 7 An 86-year-old woman with acute shortness of breath 79
- Case 8 A 68-year-old man presenting with shock 88
- Case 9 A 55-year-old man with suspected upper gastrointestinal bleeding 94
- Case 10 A 60-year-old man with diarrhoea 103
- Case 11 A 37-year-old woman with sudden severe headache 111
- Case 12 A 21-year-old man presenting following a seizure 118
- Case 13 A 22-year-old unconscious man 125
- Case 14 A 64-year-old man presenting with unilateral weakness 136
- Case 15 A 60-year-old man presenting following a blackout 145
- Case 16 A 45-year-old man with acute confusion 152
- Case 17 An 81-year-old woman with acute confusion 158
- Case 18 A 25-year-old woman with acute hyperglycaemia 166
- Case 19 A 73-year-old man with abnormal renal function 173
- Case 20 A 55-year-old man with pyrexia of unknown origin 182
- Case 21 A 25-year-old woman admitted following an overdose 191
- Case 22 A 35-year-old woman with an acutely swollen leg 200
- Part 3 Self-assessment 205
- MCQs 205
- EMQs 211
- SAQs 216
- Answers 219.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 9781405168830
- 1405168838
- OCLC:
- 248348725
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