Marshall & Ruedy’s On Call

Name: Marshall & Ruedy’s On Call
Author: Anthony F. T. Brown

Principles & Protocols

Specificaties

Paperback, blz. | Engels

Elsevier Health Sciences | e druk, 2025

ISBN13: 9780729545020

Rubricering

Elsevier Health Sciences e druk, 2025 9780729545020

€ 49,74

In winkelwagen

Levertijd ongeveer 8 werkdagen

Samenvatting

Marshall and Ruedy's On Call: Principles & Protocols, Australasian and UK 4th edition offers a carefully structured, risk-based approach to the initial assessment, investigation, differential diagnosis and short-term management of a wide variety of on-call ward problems.

This fourth edition has been completely revised, with the addition of a new author, new chapters and updated content based on the latest evidence-based guidelines. The layout is in a succinct, easy-to-read format that outlines a practical, fast, efficient and effective bedside approach to clinical problem-solving on call. Clinical reasoning has never been made so explicit and exciting!

General principles: Overview of the professional, organisational, ethical and social traits required of the junior doctor on callEmergency calls: Risk-stratified approach to life-threatening airway, breathing, circulation, neurological disability and environment factors (ABCDE)Common calls: Explicit detail on how to deal with every call from urgent to non-life threatening, based on a standardised, reproducible clinical reasoning approachInvestigations: How to interpret an ECG, common imaging, acid base, electrolyte and haematological tests when on callPractical procedures: How to perform a large array of practical procedures that may be needed when on callFormulary: Quick reference for the indications, actions, adverse effects, cautions, doses and routes of administration of the vast array of drugs encountered in ward patientsLaboratory values: Normal values for all the common tests

This edition includes the full eBook on eBooks+ with additional reading material, high-quality images, procedural videos and references available on https://litfl.com.

Specificaties

ISBN13:9780729545020

Taal:Engels

Bindwijze:Paperback

Uitgever:Elsevier Health Sciences

Inhoudsopgave

Section A – General Principles<ul><li>Approach to the diagnosis and management of on-call problems</li><li>Professionalism and teamwork</li><li>Documentation and communication</li><li>Ethical and legal considerations</li><li>Death, dying and breaking bad news</li><li>Transferring the unwell patient</li><li>Junior doctors’ health and wellbeing</li></ul>Section B – Emergency Calls<ul><li>Critically ill patient</li><li>Cardiac arrest</li><li>Acute airway failure</li><li>Acute respiratory failure</li><li>Acute circulatory failure</li><li>Disability: acute neurological failure</li><li>Environment, exposure and examination</li><li>Hospital-based emergency response codes</li></ul>Section C – Common Calls<ul><li>Shortness of breath, cough and haemoptysis</li><li>Chest pain</li><li>Heart rate and rhythm disorders</li><li>Hypotension</li><li>Hypertension</li><li>Altered mental status</li><li>Collapse including syncope</li><li>Falls</li><li>Headache</li><li>Seizures</li><li>Weakness and dizziness</li><li>Abdominal pain</li><li>Postoperative ward calls</li><li>Altered bowel habit</li><li>Gastrointestinal bleeding</li><li>Haematuria</li><li>Decreased urine output and acute kidney injury</li><li>Frequency and polyuria</li><li>Leg pain</li><li>Febrile patient</li><li>Skin rashes</li><li>Transfusion reactions</li></ul>Section D – Investigations<ul><li>Electrocardiogram</li><li>Urinalysis</li><li>Arterial and venous blood gases</li><li>Chest X-ray</li><li>Abdominal X-ray</li><li>CT head scan</li><li>Hyper- and hypoglycaemia</li><li>Hyper- and hyponatraemia</li><li>Hyper- and hypokalaemia</li><li>Hyper- and hypocalcaemia</li><li>Anaemia</li><li>Coagulation disorders</li></ul>Section E – Practical Procedures<ul><li>General preparation for a practical procedure</li><li>Infection control and standard precautions</li><li>Blood cultures</li><li>Peripheral venous cannulation</li><li>Basic ultrasound and difficult peripheral cannulation</li><li>Arterial puncture</li><li>Administering an injection</li><li>Local anaesthetic infiltration</li><li>Nasogastric tube insertion</li><li>Urinary catheterisation</li><li>Paracentesis</li><li>Pleural tap</li><li>Chest drain insertion and removal</li><li>Lumbar puncture</li><li>Joint aspiration</li><li>Cardiac monitoring and the electrocardiograph</li><li>Defibrillation</li><li>Electrical cardioversion (DC reversion)</li><li>Transthoracic cardiac pacing</li></ul>Section F – Formulary<ul><li>On-call formulary</li></ul> Analgesics and local anaesthetics Cardiovascular Respiratory and allergy Gastrointestinal Neurological Psychotropics Antimicrobials Endocrine and metabolic Genitourinary AntidotesSection G – Laboratory Values<ul><li>Normal laboratory ranges</li></ul>

Uw winkelwagen

Marshall & Ruedy’s On Call

Principles & Protocols

Samenvatting

Specificaties

Inhoudsopgave

Rubrieken

Personen

Trefwoorden