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.
Edited by:
Glenn Matfin
Imprint: Wiley-Blackwell
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions:
Height: 244mm,
Width: 170mm,
Spine: 24mm
Weight: 879g
ISBN: 9781119672852
ISBN 10: 1119672856
Series: Lecture Notes
Pages: 464
Publication Date: 09 May 2023
Audience:
College/higher education
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Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Preface, vii Contributors, ix Section One: General Aspects of Acute Medicine, 1 1 Introduction to Acute Medicine, 3 Glenn Matfin and Nick Murch 2 Clinical reasoning in Acute Medicine, 12 Glenn Matfin 3 Generic capabilities relevant to Acute Medicine, 22 Glenn Matfin 4 Safe prescribing in Acute Medicine, 40 Glenn Matfin 5 The acutely unwell patient, 50 Glenn Matfin 6 Resuscitation, 65 James Piper and Glenn Matfin 7 Enhanced and critical care Acute Medicine, 86 Glenn Matfin 8 Acute medicine in the ambulatory care setting, 100 Glenn Matfin 9 Acute medicine in the home, 104 Daniel Lasserson 10 Effective discharge planning, 107 Glenn Matfin 11 Point-of-care ultrasound in Acute Medicine, 113 Rasha Buhumaid 12 Putting it all together -- managing the acute medical take, 138 James Piper Section Two: Acute Medicine in Special Populations, 145 13 Older persons, 147 Glenn Matfin and Howell Jones 14 Perioperative medicine, 160 Robert Grange, Joshua Griffiths and David Shipway 15 The obstetric woman in the acute setting, 176 Siara Teelucksingh, Emma Page and Anita Banerjee 16 Adolescents and young adults, 194 Glenn Matfin 17 People with learning disabilities, 197 Glenn Matfin 18 Inclusion health, 201 Glenn Matfin 19 Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer or questioning, and others (LGBTQ+), 209 Howell Jones and Glenn Matfin 20 People living with HIV, 215 Nadia Ahmed and Robert Miller 21 The poisoned patient, 221 Glenn Matfin 22 Alcohol, drugs and substance abuse, 230 Nick Murch 23 People with diabetes and other hormonal disorders, 245 Glenn Matfin 24 People with neurological disorders, 299 Hani Ben Amer 25 People with mental health issues, 335 James Bolton 26 Acute oncology, 351 Glenn Matfin Section Three: Common Presentations in Acute Medicine, 365 27 Common presentations in Acute Medicine, 367 Glenn Matfin and Aya Akhras Index, 432
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.
