Main description:

Acute Medicine 2e is a current and concise guide to hospital emergency medicine for registrars, junior doctors and medical students working on the wards.

This second edition has been comprehensively revised and updated to incorporate the latest treatment guidelines. It has been substantially rewritten and streamlined to enable the reader to access the pertinent information even more quickly.

It is not just a list of instructions, but contains pathophysiology and useful clinical pearls:

detailed management of acute medical and surgical emergencies, including in pregnancy
general ward management issues
descriptions of key procedures
normal laboratory values
emergency drug formulary

Contents:

1 Resuscitation

2 The acutely ill patient

3 Cardiology emergencies

4 Respiratory emergencies

5 Endocrine and diabetic emergencies

6 Gastroenterology emergencies

7 Hepatobiliary emergencies

8 Haematological emergencies

9 Infectious disease emergencies

10 Renal and urological emergencies

11 Neurological emergencies

12 Rheumatological emergencies

13 Ophthalmological emergencies

14 Toxicology emergencies

15 Medical emergencies in pregnancy

16 Oncological emergencies

17 Miscellaneous emergencies

18 Dermatological emergencies

19 General management

20 Procedures

21 Normal laboratory values

22 Emergency drugs (use with BNF)