Acute Medicine: Lecture Notes - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1119672856 ISBN 13: 9781119672852

Verlag: *Wiley-Blackwell, 2023

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Lecture Notes discusses the principles of the initial assessment, investigation, diagnosis, and management of adult patients with everyday Acute Internal Medicine (AIM) presentations and conditions. This textbook is wide in scope and covers topics ranging from initial identification of acute medical illness, through to effective discharge planning.

Lecture Notes contains the latest developments on the generic professional and specialty specific capabilities needed to manage patients presenting with a wide range of medical symptoms and conditions covered in the UK AIM curriculum (2022).

In Lecture Notes, readers can expect to find detailed information on:

• Generic skills relevant to AIM, such as clinical reasoning, safe prescribing, point of care ultrasound (POCUS), resuscitation, and managing the acute medical take
• AIM across the various acute care settings – home (telemedicine, virtual wards, Hospital at Home), ambulatory (same day emergency care), and in-hospital (acute medical unit, enhanced care, critical care)
• AIM presentations and conditions in special populations such as older people, pregnancy, people with HIV, LGBTQ+, inclusion medicine, people with learning disabilities, perioperative medicine, people with mental illness and more
• Common presentations in AIM
• Standalone chapters can be read in any sequence, making the text perfect for quick reference

With its accessible coverage of a wide range of AIM content, Lecture Notes: Acute Medicine is an essential resource for medical students, physician trainees, consultants, and other members of the multidisciplinary team working in acute care, patient-facing settings.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Glenn Matfin, MSc (Oxon), MB ChB, FRCPE, is former Chief of Medicine at University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) Fresno, and Valley Medical Foundation Endowed Chair in Medicine, Fresno, CA, USA. He was also Vice-Chair of Medicine at UCSF and Professor of Clinical Medicine at UCSF. He was previously Consultant Physician and Honorary Professor of Medicine in AIM, Diabetes and Endocrinology in the UK NHS.

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ACUTE MEDICINE

Lecture Notes

Comprehensive coverage of the assessment, investigation, diagnosis, and management of patients presenting with acute internal medicine conditions

Lecture Notes: Acute Medicine provides an expansive and authoritative discussion of the principles of initial assessment, investigation, diagnosis, and management of adult patients with everyday acute internal medicine presentations and conditions. In this book, you’ll find a broad range of expertly covered topics, ranging from the initial identification of acute medical illness through effective discharge planning.

This book contains the latest developments in generic professional and specialty-specific capabilities needed to manage patients presenting with a wide array of medical symptoms and conditions covered by the UK Acute Internal Medicine (AIM) curriculum in 2022. It also includes discussion of AIM presentations and conditions in special populations, including older people, pregnancy, people living with HIV and AIDS, the LGBTQ+ population, people with learning disabilities, and others.

Containing accessible and accurate explorations of AIM content, Lecture Notes: Acute Medicine is an indispensable resource for medical students, physician trainees, consultants, and other members of the multidisciplinary teams working in acute care, patient-facing environments.

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Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: *Wiley-Blackwell
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2023
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1119672856
• ISBN 13: 9781119672852
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 464
• Herausgeber: Matfin Glenn
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Wiley-VCH GmbH; product_safety@wiley.com; ; Boschstrasse 12; Weinheim; 69469; Deutschland