Medical emergencies : diagnosis and management
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Medical emergencies : diagnosis and management
Butterworth-Heinemann, 1993
6th ed
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
This edition includes a new chapter on infection in HIV. The chapters on coma and head injury are rewritten, and the rest of the book is revised and updated.
Table of Contents
- Cardiovascular - cardiac arrest
- myocardial infarction
- pre-infarction syndrome
- cardiac arrhythmias
- acute pulmonary oedema
- hypertensive emergencies
- pulmonary embolus
- dissections of the aorta
- cardiac tamponade
- respiratory - respiratory failure
- chronic bronchitis
- pure ventilatory failure
- hypozaemic failure
- severe attacks of asthma
- pneumothorax
- massive pulmonary collapse
- acute laryngeal obstruction
- massive pleural effusions
- adult respiratory distress syndrome
- pulmonary aspiration syndrome
- community-acquired severe pneumonia
- gastrointestinal - massive GI haemorrhage
- lower GI bleeding
- acute pancreatitis
- ulcerative colitis
- acute abdominal pain
- pseudo-obstruction
- acute gastric dilation
- acute liver failure
- acute renal failure
- endocrine - diabetic ketoacidosis and coma
- hyper-osmolar non-ketotic diabetic acidosis
- urgent surgery in diabetics
- hypopituitary coma
- pituitary apoplexy
- acute lactic acidosis
- hypoglycaemic pre-coma and coma
- Addisonian crisis
- myxoedema coma
- thyrotoxic crisis
- acute hypercalcaemia
- tetany
- neurological - the competed stroke
- transient ischaemic attacks
- closed head injury
- syncopal attacks
- fits
- spinal cord compression
- acute ascending polyneuritis
- myasthenia gravis
- myasthenic crisis
- cholinergic crisis
- generalized tetanus
- brain death
- sickle cell anaemia
- anaemia, the overdose - management
- special agents hypothermia
- acute febrile illness - the acutely febrile patients
- AIDS
- malaria
- typhoid
- general clinical problems - acute confusional states, delirium
- acute psychoses
- the poorly-perfused patient
- blood transfusion reactions
- anaphylactic shock
- bacterial shock
- the unconscious patient
- severe chest pain
- severe headaches
- the acutely painful joint
- the acutely breathless patient
- social problems
- central venous pressure and pulmonary artery occlusion.
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