Making Sense of Acute Medicine: A Guide to Diagnosis

Summary:
The first 72 hours following assessment and admission to the emergency department are crucial to a patient's care. As the medical practitioner on duty, you need good diagnostic skills and the ability to formulate a quick, safe and appropriate management plan. Making Sense of Acute Medicine is here to help.

This book is the perfect introduction to accurate diagnosis for medical students, newly qualified doctors and anyone intimately involved with the delivery of acute medical care. By focusing on the decision-making process in relation to common clinical presentations, Making Sense of Acute Medicine will assist you to:
* take an accurate history and examine the patient with a focused approach
*make appropriate investigations requests
*formulate suitable management plans.

• Easy to navigate for quick reference with features such as 'hazard', 'think', and 'question' boxes
• Helps the reader make decisions about which tests to request and differential diagnosis
• Pocket-sized for use on the go
• Written in a jargon-free style by two experts in the field
• Illustrated throughout
• Part of the successful Making Sense series

Table of Contents:
1 The shocked patient
2 The comatose patient
3 Chest pain
4 Breathlessness
5 Palpitation
6 Syncope
7 Seizures
8 Dizziness
9 Acute confusion
10 Acute headache
11 Weakness
12 Abdominal pain
13 Haematemesis and melaena
14 Diarrhoea and vomiting
15 Jaundice
16 The patient with a fever
17 Joint problems
18 Skin rashes
19 Back pain
20 Leg swelling
Index

About the Author(s):
Paul Jenkins, Professor of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences, The University of Western Australia
Paula Johnson, Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences, The University of Western Australia

Readership:
Core: Medical students, student nurses, and junior clinicians relatively new to acute medicine. Supplementary: All other specialists involved in the care of the acutely ill patient; trainees in medici

Making Sense of Acute Medicine: A Guide to Diagnosis is now available in mobile format and can be purchased via download from our partner Skyscape

The mobile edition provides anyone involved with the delivery of acute medical care with quick access to relevant information on how to deal with common clinical presentations. The hyperlinked table of contents allows you to jump directly to the relevant presentation, details of how to take an accurate history and advice on examination and management. The text is clearly laid out with additional features including handy indexes of images, diseases and medication, plus hyperlinked cross-references and a list of abbreviations which is cross-referenced from the text. Depending on your device, you can also add bookmarks and annotate the text with your notes.