Acute Medicine: Clinical Cases Uncovered

Acute Medicine is the central part of foundation and specialist general medical training and is one of the most rapidly expanding UK hospital specialties.
Acute Medicine: Clinical Cases Uncovered combines patient cases and outcomes, drawn from real–life experiences, with reference to the curriculum for Training in General (Acute) Medicine. It 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.

Spis treści:
Part 1: Basics.
Introduction and speciality overview.
Approach to the patient.
Part 2: Cases.
1. A 45–year–old man with ‘cardiac type’ chest pain.
2. A 35–year–old woman with ‘pleuritic’ chest pain.
3. A 50–year–old man presenting with palpitations.
4. A 60–year–old man with a broad complex tachycardia.
5. A 25–year–old acutely wheezy woman.
6. A 60–year–old woman with an ‘exacerbation’ of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
7. An 86–year–old breathless woman.
8. A shocked 68–year–old man.
9. A 55–year–old man with suspected upper gastrointestinal bleeding.
10. A 60–year–old man with diarrhoea.
11. A 37–year–old woman with sudden severe headache.
12. A young man presenting following a seizure.
13. An unconscious 22–year–old man.
14. A 64–year–old man presenting with unilateral weakness.
15. A 60–year–old man presenting following a ‘blackout’.
16. An acutely confused alcoholic man.
17. An acutely confused elderly woman.
18. An acutely hyperglycaemic young woman.
19. A 73–year–old man with abnormal renal function.
20. A 55–year–old man with pyrexia of unknown origin.
21. A 25 –year–old woman admitted following an overdose.
22. A 35–year–old woman with an acutely swollen leg.
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Part 3: Self assessment.
MCQs.
EMQs.
SAQs.
Answers.
Index of cases by diagnosis.
Index

Nota biograficzna:
Chris Roseveare, Consultant in Acute Medicine, Southampton University Hospitals Trust, UK

Okładka tylna:
Acute Medicine is the central part of foundation and specialist general medical training and is one of the most rapidly expanding UK hospital specialties.
Acute Medicine: Clinical Cases Uncovered combines patient cases and outcomes, drawn from real–life experiences, with reference to the curriculum for Training in General (Acute) Medicine. It 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.