Acute Medicine: Lecture Notes

Lecture Notes discuss the principles of initial assessment, investigation, diagnosis, and management of adult patients with everyday acute internal medicine presentations and conditions. It covers generic skills relevant to AIM, such as clinical reasoning, safe prescribing, point-of-care ultrasound, resuscitation, and managing the acute medical take across various acute care settings. It also includes presentations and conditions in special populations, such as older people, pregnancy, people with HIV, LGBTQ+, inclusion medicine, people with learning disabilities, perioperative medicine, and people with mental illness.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 464 pages
Publication date: 16 February 2023
Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd

Lecture Notes delve into the principles of initial assessment, investigation, diagnosis, and management of adult patients with everyday acute internal medicine (AIM) presentations and conditions. This comprehensive textbook spans a wide range of topics, from the initial identification of acute medical illness to effective discharge planning. It encompasses the latest developments in the generic professional and specialty-specific capabilities required to manage patients presenting with a diverse range of medical symptoms and conditions covered in the UK AIM curriculum (2022).

Within the pages of Lecture Notes, readers can expect to find comprehensive coverage of various aspects of AIM. This includes generic skills relevant to AIM, such as clinical reasoning, safe prescribing, point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS), resuscitation, and managing acute medical take across various acute care settings, including home (telemedicine, virtual wards, Hospital at Home), ambulatory (same-day emergency care), and in-hospital (acute medical unit, enhanced care, critical care). Special populations such as older people, pregnancy, people with HIV, LGBTQ+, inclusion medicine, people with learning disabilities, perioperative medicine, people with mental illness, and more are also explored in depth.

The text is organized into standalone chapters, allowing readers to read them in any sequence, making it an ideal resource for quick reference. With its accessible coverage of a wide range of AIM content, Lecture Notes: Acute Medicine serves as an essential resource for medical students, physician trainees, consultants, and other members of the multidisciplinary team working in acute care, patient-facing settings.

Weight: 890g
Dimension: 252 x 171 x 24 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781119672852