Washington Manual® General Internal Medicine Consult

Title: Washington Manual® General Internal Medicine Consult Volume:
Author(s): Thomas Ciesielski
Series: The Washington Manual Subspecialty Consult Series Periodical:
Publisher: LWW City:
Year: 2017 Edition: 3rd Edition
Language: English Pages (biblio\tech): 645\645
ISBN: 9781496346322 ID: 2382008
Time added: 2019-06-22 05:44:59 Time modified: 2019-12-21 21:23:21
Library: Library issue: 0
Size: 21 MB (21711488 bytes) Extension: pdf

Concise, portable, and user-friendly, The Washington Manual® General Internal Medicine Consult, Third Edition , provides quick access to the essential information needed when performing an inpatient consult. Chapters are organized around presenting symptom (e.g., approach to nausea, approach to low back pain), allowing quick look-up of differential diagnosis and management. Ideal for medical students, residents, and practitioners, the manual is also useful as a quick-reference guide for practicing hospitalists.
Key Features:
Brief, focused information throughout, zeroing in on the essential diagnosis and assessment information you need for an internal medicine consult.
Thoroughly revised to include new approaches to diagnosis and new therapeutic management, as well as an all-new chapter on venous thromboembolic disease.
Organized by presenting symptom, making information easy to find so you can maximize your time spent during the consult.
Perfect for residents asked to perform a medical consult, hospitalists, students, NPs, and PAs.
Written by residents, fellows, and attending physicians from the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.
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Table of contents :
Cover……Page 1
Half Title……Page 2
Title……Page 3
Copyright……Page 5
Dedication……Page 7
Contributors……Page 8
Chairman Note……Page 20
Preface……Page 21
Contents……Page 23
General Consultative Principles……Page 30
PART I. GENERAL ISSUES……Page 36
1.Approach to Perioperative Care……Page 37
2.Approach to Edema……Page 72
PART II. CARDIOVASCULAR……Page 80
3.Approach to the Patient with Chest Pain……Page 81
4.Acute Coronary Syndromes……Page 92
5.Approach to the Patient with Syncope……Page 117
6.Management of Heart Failure……Page 130
7.Atrial Fibrillation……Page 150
8.Anticoagulation and Surgery……Page 166
PART III. PULMONARY……Page 176
9.Dyspnea……Page 177
10.Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease……Page 183
11.Asthma……Page 193
12.Solitary Pulmonary Nodule……Page 209
PART IV. GASTROENTEROLOGY……Page 218
13.Approach to Nausea and Vomiting……Page 219
14.Approach to Gastrointestinal Bleeding……Page 230
15.Approach to Abdominal Pain……Page 245
16.Approach to Abnormal Liver Enzymes……Page 255
PART V. NEPHROLOGY……Page 265
17.Approach to Acute Kidney Injury……Page 266
18.Approach to Hyperkalemia and Hypokalemia……Page 277
19.Approach to Hyponatremia and Hypernatremia……Page 289
20.Approach to the Patient with Hematuria……Page 306
PART VI. INFECTIOUS DISEASE……Page 314
21.Pneumonia……Page 315
22.Urinary Tract Infections……Page 322
23.Cellulitis……Page 329
24.Osteomyelitis……Page 335
25.Approach to the Patient with Fever……Page 342
26.Bacteremia……Page 353
27.Intravascular Catheter Infections……Page 364
28.Endocarditis……Page 371
29.Meningitis……Page 384
PART VII. NEUROLOGY……Page 394
30.Approach to Altered Mental Status……Page 395
31.Approach to the Patient with Vertigo……Page 405
32.Approach to the Carotid Bruit……Page 413
PART VIII. HEMATOLOGY……Page 421
33.Approach to Anemia……Page 422
34.Thrombocytopenia……Page 433
35.Approach to a Prolonged Prothrombin Time/Partial Thromboplastin Time……Page 443
36.Venous Thromboembolism……Page 449
PART IX. ONCOLOGY……Page 464
37.Pain Control in the Cancer Patient……Page 465
38.Neutropenic Fever……Page 480
PART X. ENDOCRINOLOGY……Page 487
39.Inpatient Diabetes Management……Page 488
40.Thyroid Diseases……Page 498
41.Adrenal Insufficiency……Page 515
42.Approach to the Adrenal Incidentaloma……Page 521
PART XI. RHEUMATOLOGY……Page 526
43.Approach to the Patient with Positive Antinuclear Antibodies……Page 527
44.Approach to Low Back Pain……Page 537
PART XII. ALLERGY AND IMMUNOLOGY……Page 552
45.Anaphylaxis……Page 553
46.Drug Reactions……Page 558
PART XIII. TOXICOLOGY……Page 567
47.Alcohol Withdrawal……Page 568
48.General Toxicology and Opioid Intoxication and Withdrawal……Page 578
Index……Page 590