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By
Jeffrey Glasheen, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Director, Hospital Medicine Program, Director of Inpatient Medicine, University of Colorado Hospital;
Associate Progran Director, Internal Medicine Training Program, Director, Hospitalist Training Program, Department of Medicine, University
of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences Center, Denver, CO
Included in series
Secrets,
Description
Hospital Medicine Secrets provides essential knowledge for practicing hospitalists, students, or any professional interested in hospital
medicine. A question-and-answer format, bulleted lists, and practical tips from the author expedite review - making The Secrets Series?
a popular, user-friendly reference. And, online access via STUDENT CONSULT makes this a more effective learning tool!
Audience
Upper level Medical Students, Residents, Internal Medicine, Primary Care
Contents
I. General Principles of Hospital Medicine
1. Prevention of Complications in the Hospital Setting
2. Patient
Safety and Quality in the Hospital
3. Safe and Appropriate Medication Use
4. Medicolegal Issues in Hospital Medicine
5. Communicating
with Patients and Families
6. Professional Communication
7. Handoffs
8. Discharge Planning and Transitions of Care
9. Evidence-based
Medicine
II. Critical Care Medicine
10. Conventional and Noninvasive Ventilation
11. Vasopressors,
Inotropes and Vasodilators
12. Pulmonary Artery Catheters and Intra-aortic Balloon Pumps
13. Brain Death and Organ Donation
III.
Neurology
14. Stroke and Transient Ischemic Attacks
15. Seizures
16. Syncope
17. Meningitis and Encephalitis
18.
Dementia and Delirium in the Hospitalized Patient
IV. Pulmonary
19. Evaluation of the Patient with
Dyspnea or Hypoxia
20. Community-acquired Pneumonia
21. Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
22. Asthma
23. Pneumothorax
24.
Pleural Effusions
25. Pulmonary Hypertension
V. Cardiology
26. Evaluation of the Patient with Chest
Pain
27. Acute Coronary Syndromes
28. Acute Aortic Dissection
29. Hypertensive Crises
30. Heart Failure
31. Pericardial
Disease
32. Tachyarrythmias
33. Bradyarrhythmias
34. Infective Endocarditis
VI. Gastroenterology
35.
Evaluation of the Patient with Abdominal Pain
36. Diarrhea in the Hospitalized Patient
37. Gastrointestinal Bleeding
38. Inflammatory
Bowel Disease
39. Acute Liver Disease
40. Chronic Liver Disease
41. Acute and Chronic Pancreatitis
42. Biliary Disease
43.
Ileus and Bowel Obstruction
VII. Nephrology
44. Urinary Tract Infections
45. Acute Renal Failure
46.
Electrolyte Derangements
47. Acid Base Disorders
48. Care of the Inpatient Dialysis Patient
49. Fluid Management
50. Renal
Stones
VIII. Infectious Disease
51. Approach to the Febrile Patient
52. Antibiotic Resistance and
Selection
53. Approach to the Immunocompromised Patient
54. Sepsis
55. Nosocomial Infections
56. Bone, Joint, and Prosthetic
Joint Infections
IX. Hematology and Oncology
57. Venous Thromboembolism
58. Anemia in the Hospitalized
Patient
59. Sickle Cell Disease
60. Thrombocytopenia
61. Oncologic Emergencies
X. Endocrinology
62.
Management of Inpatient Diabetes and Hyperglycemic Syndromes
63. Adrenal Insufficiency
XI. Rheumatology
64.
Acute Arthritis
65. Vasculitis
XII. Dermatology
66. Skin and Soft Tissue infections
67. Skin
Ulcers
XIII. Allergy
68. Allergic Reactions
69. Medication Allergy and Desensitization
XIV.
Toxicology
70. Alcohol Withdrawal
71. Approach to Drug Overdose
XV. Geriatrics
72.
Approach to the Elderly Hospitalized Patient
XVI. Perioperative and Consultative Medicine
73. Approach
to the Preoperative Evaluation
74. Preoperative Cardiac Evaluation
75. Preoperative Pulmonary Evaluation
76. Perioperative Management
of Diabetes
77. Perioperative Venous Thromboembolism Prophylaxis and Management of Long-term Warfarin Therapy
78. Postoperative
Fever
79. Medical Problems in Pregnancy
XVII. Procedures
80. Advanced Cardiac Life Support
81.
EKG Interpretation
82. Chest X-ray Interpretation
83. Lumbar Puncture
84. Thoracentesis
85. Paracentesis
86. Vascular
Access
XVIII. Palliative Care Medicine and End of Life Issues
87. Palliative Care Assessment
88.
Establishing Goals of Care
89. Determining Code Status
90. Ethical and Legal Issues at the End of Life
91. Breaking Bad News
92.
Hospice
93. Pain Management in the Hospitalized Patient
94. Management of Common Physical and Psychological Symptoms
| Bibliographic details |
Paperback, 464 pages, publication date: NOV-2006
ISBN-13: 978-0-323-04087-7
ISBN-10: 0-323-04087-X
Imprint: MOSBY
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Last update: 10 Sep 2009
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