The Washington Manual® General Internal Medicine Consult is a practical guide to the general internal medicine consult.
The Washington Manual® General Internal Medicine Consult is ideally suited for residents called on to do an inpatient consult, for students working on an inpatient medicine service, and for specialists seeking information on general internal medicine management.
The content is based on the top 25 most common general internal medicine consults requested of the hospitalist service at the Barnes-Jewish Hospital and Washington University.
Coverage includes clinical presentations, perioperative management as it relates to a clinical consult, guidelines on the appropriate conduct and approach of a medical consultant, and reviews of selected clinical trials.
Contents:
- Approach to Perioperative Care
- Approach to Edema
- Approach to the Patient with Chest Pain
- Acute Coronary Syndromes
- Approach to the Patient with Syncope
- Management of Congestive Heart Failure
- Atrial Fibrillation
- Anticoagulation and Surgery
- Approach to Dyspnea
- Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
- Asthma
- Solitary Pulmonary Nodule
- Approach to Nausea and Vomiting
- Approach to Gastrointestinal Bleeding
- Approach to Abdominal Pain
- Approach to Abnormal Liver Enzymes
- Approach to Acute Renal Failure
- Approach to Hyperkalemia and Hypokalemia
- Hyponatremia and Hypernatremia
- Approach to the Patient with Hematuria
- Pneumonia
- Urinary Tract Infections
- Cellulitis
- Osteomyelitis
- Approach to the Patient with Fever
- Bacteremia
- Central Venous Catheter Infections
- Infective Endocarditis
- Meningitis
- Approach to Altered Mental Status
- Approach to the Patient with Vertigo
- Approach to the Carotid Bruit
- Approach to Anemia
- Thrombocytopenia
- Approach to a Prolonged Prothrombin Time/Partial Thromboplastin Time
- Pain Control in the Cancer Patient
- Perioperative Care of the Cancer Patient
- Neutropenic Fever
- Inpatient Diabetes Management
- Thyroid Diseases
- Adrenal Insufficiency
- Approach to the Adrenal Incidentaloma
- Approach to the Patient with Positive Antinuclear Antibodies
- Approach to Low Back Pain
- Anaphylaxis
- Drug Reactions and Desensitization
- Alcohol Withdrawal
- Opioid Intoxication and Withdrawal
Appendix A - Review of Selected Clinical Trials
Appendix B - Preoperative Antibiotic Prophylaxis
Appendix C - Evidence-Based Medicine: Summary of Terms and Principles
Index
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