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Expert Consult - Online and Print
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By
Mark Williams, MD, Professor of Medicine and Chief, Division of Hospital Medicine, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL
Scott Flanders, MD, Associate Professor, Director, Hospitalist Program, Associate Director, Inpatient Programs, Department of Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
Winthrop Whitcomb, MD, Director of Clinical Performance Improvement, Mercy Medical Center, Springfield, MA; Assistant Professor of Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA
Steven Cohn, MD, FACP, Chief, Division of General Internal Medicine, Director, Medical Consultation Service, Clinical Professor of Medicine, SUNY Downstate, Brooklyn, NY
Frank Michota, MD, Head, Section of Hospital Medicine, Director, Hospital Medicine Fellowship, Associate Director, Internal Medicine Residency, Department
of General Internal Medicine, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH
Russell Holman, MD, Chief Operating Officer and National Medical Director, Cogent Healthcare, Nashville, TN
Richard Gross, MD, Chief, Division of Internal and Hospital Medicine, Professor of Medicine, University of South Florida College of Medicine, Tampa, FL
Geno Merli, MD, FACP, Senior Vice President and Chief Medical Officer, Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, Philadelphia, PA
Description
In the exciting and growing field of hospital medicine, you're as concerned with the efficient management of your unit as you are the
effective care of your patients. This multimedia Expert Consult title is your ideal new clinical reference on both counts...in print
and online! Nationally recognized experts equip you with practical, actionable guidance on all of the challenges you face every day?making
it easier for you to provide optimal care for every patient.
Audience
Hospitalists, Internists, and Family Practitioners
Contents
I. Evidence Based Clinical Practice
A. Principles of evidence-based clinical practice
B. Real time application
II.
Clinical Care Delivery
A. General Approach to a Hospitalized Patient
1) Communication
2) Symptom Management
a)
Insomnia and anxiety
b) Nausea
c) Constipation and Diarrhea
3) Nutrition
4) Maintaining Skin Integrity
5) Pain Management
B.
Cardiovascular
1) Chest Pain
2) Acute Coronary Syndromes
3) Heart Failure
4) Arrhythmias
5) Cardiac Arrest
6) Syncope
7)
Venous Thromboembolism
8) Aortic Dissection
9) Valvular Heart Disease
10) Peripheral Arterial Disease
C. Infectious Diseases
1)
Pneumonia
a) Community Acquired
b) Nosocomial
2) Urinary Tract Infections
a) Community Acquired
b) Nosocomial
3) Cellulitis
4)
Meningitis
5) Endocarditis
6) Vascular Catheter-related infections
7) HIV – related infections
8) Fever in a hospitalized
patient
Pulmonary
9) COPD
10) Asthma
11) Pleural Disease
12) Interstitial Lung Disease
13) Pulmonary Hypertension
D.
Nephrology
1) Acute Renal Failure
2) Chronic Renal Failure
3) Electrolyte Disorders
4) Acid-Base Disorders
E.
Gastroenterology
1) Acute GI Bleeding
a) Upper
b) Lower
2) Acute Hepatitis
3) Cirrhosis and Liver Failure
a) Spontaneous
Bacterial Peritonitis
4) Acute Abdominal Emergencies
a) Appendicitis
b) Cholecystitis
c) Diverticulitis
d) Bowel Obstruction
and ileus
e) Ischemic Bowel
5) Inflammatory Bowel Disease
6) Gastroenteritis
F. Endocrinology
1) Diabetes Mellitus
a)
DKA
b) Managing DM in hospitalized patients
2) Thyroid Disorders
3) Adrenal Disorders
4) Parathyroid Disorders
G.
Oncology
1) Chemotherapy
2) Paraneoplastic Syndromes
3) Oncologic Emergencies
a) Neutropenia / Fever
b) Hypercalcemia
c)
Tumor Lysis Syndrome
H. Hematology
1) Anemia
a) Transfusion Medicine
2) Sickle Cell Disease
3) Hemorrhagic and
Thrombotic Disorders
4) Leukemia
5) Lymphoma
I. Rheumatology
1) Acute Arthritis
2) Vasculitis
J. Critical
Care
1) Sepsis and Shock
2) Acute Respiratory Failure
a) Sedation and Ventilator Weaning
3) Drug Overdose / Poisoning
K.
Neurology
1) Stroke
2) Intracranial Hemorrhage
a) Subarachnoid hemorrhage
b) Subdural, Epidural, and intracerebral hemorrhage
3)
Altered Mental Status
a) Coma
b) Delirium
4) Dementia
5) Pain Management
L. Psychiatry
1) Depression
2)
Anxiety
3) Mania
M. Peri-Operative Care
1) Hospitalist as Consultant
2) Pre-op Assessment and Preparation
3) Post-op
Evaluation and Care
4) General Wound Care
5) Orthopedics
a) Hip Fracture
b) Total Joint Replacement
a. Hip, Knee, Shoulder
c)
Spinal Surgery
6) Urology
a) Nephrolithiasis
b) Transurethral Prostatectomy (TURP)
c) Radical Prostatectomy
7) Obstetrics/Gynecology
a)
Medical Complications of Pregnancy
b) Hysterectomy
c) Mastectomy / Mammoplasty
8) Cardiothoracic
a) CABG
b) Lung Resection
9)
Otolaryngology
a) Tracheostomy
b) Neck
10) Neurosurgery
N. Approach to Special Patient Populations
1) Geriatrics
2)
End-of-Life
3) Psychiatric illness
4) Pregnant patients
5) Patients with cancer
6) Immunocompromised patients
a) HIV
b)
Transplantation
O. Preventive Services in the Hospitalized Patient
1) Vaccination
2) Smoking Cessation
3) Dietary
Counseling
III. System Issues
A. Establishing a Hospitalist Program
B. Enhancing a Hospitalist
Program
C. Managing Patient Transitions of Care
1) Admission
2) Transfers
3) Discharge and Follow-up
D. Establishing
a Teamwork Model with Hospital Staff
E. Patient Safety and Performance Improvement
1) Continuous Quality Improvement
2)
Cost Effectiveness
3) Patient Satisfaction
4) Hospital Staff Feedback Analysis
5) Risk Management
F. Guidelines for Standardizing
Care
1) Development of Guidelines and Order Sets
2) Implementation
3) Evaluation
4) Disseminating Innovation
G.
Ethics
| Bibliographic details |
Hardbound, 1072 pages, publication date: SEP-2007
ISBN-13: 978-1-4160-0223-9
ISBN-10: 1-4160-0223-5
Imprint: SAUNDERS
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Last update: 10 Sep 2009
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