Clinical Cases Uncovered
by Chris Roseveare
Acute Medicine combines patient cases and outcomes, drawn from real-life experiences, with reference to the curriculum for Training in General (Acute) Medicine.
Acute Medicine 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
Basics
- Introduction and speciality overview
- Approach to the patient
Cases
- A 45-year-old man with ‘cardiac type’ chest pain
- A 35-year-old woman with ‘pleuritic’ chest pain
- A 50-year-old man presenting with palpitations
- A 60-year-old man with a broad complex tachycardia
- A 25-year-old acutely wheezy woman
- A 60-year-old woman with an ‘exacerbation’ of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
- An 86-year-old breathless woman
- A shocked 68-year-old man
- A 55-year-old man with suspected upper gastrointestinal bleeding
- A 60-year-old man with diarrhoea
- A 37-year-old woman with sudden severe headache
- A young man presenting following a seizure
- An unconscious 22-year-old man
- A 64-year-old man presenting with unilateral weakness
- A 60-year-old man presenting following a ‘blackout’
- An acutely confused alcoholic man
- An acutely confused elderly woman
- An acutely hyperglycaemic young woman
- A 73-year-old man with abnormal renal function
- A 55-year-old man with pyrexia of unknown origin
- A 25-year-old woman admitted following an overdose
- A 35-year-old woman with an acutely swollen leg
Self assessment
Index
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