Lecture notes. Acute medicine /
edited by Glenn Matfin.
Bok Engelsk 2023
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| Omfang | pages cm
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| Opplysninger | Introduction to Acute Medicine -- Clinical Reasoning in Acute Medicine -- Generic capabilities relevant to Acute Medicine -- Safe Prescribing in Acute Medicine -- The Acutely unwell patient -- Resuscitation -- Enhanced and Critical Care Acute Medicine -- Acute Medicine in the Ambulatory Care Setting -- Acute Medicine in the Home -- Effective Discharge Planning -- Point of Care Ultrasound (POCUS) in Acute Medicine -- Putting it all Together : Managing the Acute Medical Take -- Older Persons -- Perioperative medicine -- The Obstetric Woman in the Acute Setting -- Adolescents and Young Adults -- People with Learning Disabilities -- Inclusion Medicine -- LGBTQ (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer and Questioning, and Others) -- People living with HIV -- The Poisoned patient -- Alcohol, Drugs and Substance abuse -- People with Diabetes and other hormonal disorders -- People with Neurological disorders -- People with Mental Health issues -- Acute Oncology -- Common presentations in Acute Medicine. . - "Acute medicine is that part of clinical internal medicine concerned with the immediate and early specialist management of adult patients with a wide range of medical conditions who present in hospital as emergencies. Acute medical emergencies are those illnesses that can cause organ failures and death within minutes to hours of their presentation. Effective, early management of acute medical emergencies requires prompt recognition, immediate correction of life-threatening physiological abnormalities, and rapid diagnosis and treatment of the underlying condition. The emergence of acute medicine as a unique specialty has similarities with hospital medicine in North America (clinicians in this specialty are termed "Hospitalists"). Both specialties are rapidly growing in terms of number of patients managed, as well as number of staff involved in delivery of that care. Indeed, hospitalists now number more than 50,000 in the USA and are larger than any other subspecialty of internal medicine"--
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| ISBN | 9781119672852
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