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ISBN10: 0071813357 | ISBN13: 9780071813358

Point of Care Medicine, 1st Edition

ISBN10: 0071813357
ISBN13: 9780071813358
By Anthony D. Slonim and Alexander Levitov

© 2013 Published March 1, 2013

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An ultra-concise, evidence-based guide to the initial patient encounter

Point of Care Medicine delivers the most patient-care information in the least amount of words possible. Within its pages you will find the evidence-based information necessary to immediately manage the most common problems occurring in hospitalized adult patients--ranging from chest pain and renal failure to anemia and complications of pregnancy.

I. Diseases of heart and great vessels

II. Pulmonary and pulmonary vascular disease. Industrial illnesses of the lungs. Disorders of sleep. Special considerations in morbidly obese.

III. ENT, diseases of oral cavity and diseases of neck and upper airways

IV. Ophthalmology and eye examination

V. Diseases of the Gastrointestinal tract and hepatology

VI. Diseases of kidney and urinary system. Diseases of homeostasis.

VII. Pelvic diseases, gynecology and obstetrics for non-obstetrician.

VIII. Testicular diseases

IX. Hematological and oncological diseases. Care of bone marrow transplant patients, and those receiving chemotherapy. Special considerations in Sickle cell disease patient

X. Infectious diseases. Antibiotic, antifungal and antiviral drugs. Care of patient with HIV on and off HAART. Foreign borne and traveler illnesses

XI. Endocrinology and Metabolic disorders

XII. Rheumatologic and connective tissue diseases

XIII. Peripheral vascular diseases arterial and venous

XIV. Neurology and neuromuscular disorders

XV. Psychiatry for non psychiatrist

XVI. Skin diseases and skin signs of systemic illness

XVII. Allergic and drug related illnesses, Neuroleptic Malignant Syndrome and Serotonin Syndrome. DOD, poisons and antidotes.

XVIII. Environmental illnesses, accidental hypothermia and hyperthermia

XIX. Evaluation of trauma and postoperative patient for non surgeon. Surgical “clearance”

Supplements:

  1. Common procedures guide
  2. Algorithms for 10-15 common problems
  3. Glossary and abbreviation guide
  4. ACLS
  5. ICU survival guide
  6. Commonly used protocols
  7. Pictorials ( Anatomy, EKGs, Echoes, CXR etc large icon size)
  8. Commonly used formulas and calculation : i.e. anion gap, osmolar gap, Aa gradient etc.
  9. Index

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