Washington Manual General Internal Medicine Consult

Description:

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.

Table of Contents:

General Consultative Principles

PART I. GENERAL ISSUES

1. Approach to Perioperative Care

2. Approach to Edema

PART II. CARDIOVASCULAR

3. Approach to the Patient with Chest Pain

4. Acute Coronary Syndromes

5. Approach to the Patient with Syncope

6. Management of Heart Failure

7. Atrial Fibrillation

8. Anticoagulation and Surgery

PART III. PULMONARY

9. Dyspnea

10. Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease

11. Asthma

12. Solitary Pulmonary Nodule

PART IV. GASTROENTEROLOGY

13. Approach to Nausea and Vomiting

14. Approach to Gastrointestinal Bleeding

15. Approach to Abdominal Pain

16. Approach to Abnormal Liver Enzymes

PART V. NEPHROLOGY

17. Approach to Acute Kidney Injury

18. Approach to Hyperkalemia and Hypokalemia

19. Approach to Hyponatremia and Hypernatremia

20. Approach to the Patient with Hematuria

PART VI. INFECTIOUS DISEASE

21. Pneumonia

22. Urinary Tract Infections

23. Cellulitis

24. Osteomyelitis

25. Approach to the Patient with Fever

26. Bacteremia

27. Intravascular Catheter Infections

28. Endocarditis

29. Meningitis

PART VII. NEUROLOGY

30. Approach to Altered Mental Status

31. Approach to the Patient with Vertigo

32. Approach to the Carotid Bruit

PART VIII. HEMATOLOGY

33. Approach to Anemia

34. Thrombocytopenia

35. Approach to a Prolonged Prothrombin Time/Partial Thromboplastin Time

36. Venous Thromboembolism

PART IX. ONCOLOGY

37. Pain Control in the Cancer Patient

38. Neutropenic Fever

PART X. ENDOCRINOLOGY

39. Inpatient Diabetes Management

40. Thyroid Diseases

41. Adrenal Insufficiency

42. Approach to the Adrenal Incidentaloma

PART XI. RHEUMATOLOGY

43. Approach to the Patient with Positive Antinuclear Antibodies

44. Approach to Low Back Pain

PART XII. ALLERGY AND IMMUNOLOGY

45. Anaphylaxis

46. Drug Reactions

PART XIII. TOXICOLOGY

47. Alcohol Withdrawal

48. General Toxicology and Opioid Intoxication and Withdrawal

Index