This extremely popular title has become the definitive pocket guide to the management of medical emergencies for front-line hospital doctors.

Acute Medicine provides detailed guidance on the diagnosis and treatment of all common conditions and includes a step-by-step guide to the nine most important practical procedures in acute medicine.

Contents

1. The critically ill patient: assessment and stabilization.
2. Cardiac arrest.
3. Cardiac arrhythmias: general approach.
4. Broad complex regular tachycardia.
5. Broad complex irregular tachycardia.
6. Narrow complex tachycardia.
7. Atrial fibrillation and flutter.
8. Bradycardia and atrioventricular block.
9. Hypotension.
10. Sepsis and septic shock.
11. Poisoning: general approach.
12. Poisoning with aspirin, paracetamol and carbon monoxide.
13. Acute chest pain.
14. Acute breathlessness.
15. Arterial blood gases, oxygen saturation and oxygen therapy
16. Respiratory failure
17. Acid-base disorders
18. The unconscious patient
19. Transient loss of consciousness
20. Acute confusional state
21. Falls and 'off legs'
22. Acute headache
23. Acute vomiting
24. Acute abdominal pain
25. Acute coronary syndromes with persisting ST elevation or new left
26. Acute coronary syndromes without persisting ST elevation
27. Cardiogenic shock
28. Aortic dissection
29. Acute pulmonary edema
30. Cardiac valve disease and prosthetic heart valves
31. Infective endocarditis
32. Acute pericarditis
33. Cardiac tamponade
34. Severe hypertension
35. Deep vein thrombosis
36. Pulmonary embolism
37. Problems with pacemakers and implantable
38. Airway management and upper airway obstruction
39. Acute asthma
40. Acute exacerbation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
41. Pneumonia (1): community-acquired pneumonia
42. Pneumonia (2): hospital-acquired pneumonia
43. Pneumothorax
44. Pleural effusion

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