On call : principles and protocols
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On call : principles and protocols
Saunders, c2000
3rd ed
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Includes bibliographies and index
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A quick reference guide to facilitate the transition of medical students and residents from the classroom to the hospital setting. It serves as a second option for medical students and residents who are on call and faced with a patient problem in the middle of the night. It tells them what to do and how to do it quickly - from diagnosing a difficult of life-threatening situation to prescribing the right medication.
Table of Contents
- Introduction: approach to the diagnosis and management of on-call problems
- documentation of on-call problems
- assessment and management of volume status
- AIDS and the house officer. Patient related problems - the common calls: abdominal pain
- chest pain
- combativeness - the put of control patient
- confusion/decreased level of consciousness
- decreased urine output
- diarrhoea
- fall-out-of-bed
- fever
- gastrointestinal bleeding
- headache
- heart rate and rhythm disorders
- high blood pressure
- hypnotics, laxatives,a analgesics, and antipyretics
- hypotension and shock
- leg pain
- lines, tubes, and drains
- polyuria frequency incontinence
- pronouncing death
- seizures
- shortness of breath
- skin rashes and urticaria
- syncope
- transfusion and reactions. Laboratory related problems - the common calls: acid-base disorders
- anaemia
- calcium disorders
- coagulation disorders
- glucose disorders
- potassium disorders
- sodium disorders.
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