Patient encounters
Subtitle: The internal medicine work-up
By: [editor], Brian T. Garibaldi ; associate editors, Susan Potter Bell, D. Clark Files, Patrick J. Troy
Publisher: Wolters Kluwer Health/Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 445
ISBN-13: 9780781793964
Other titles: Internal medicine work-up
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Taking a history; title: The physical examination; title: Preparing the write-up and presenting on rounds; title: Approach to the cardiovascular evaluation; title: Acute coronary syndromes; title: Systolic heart failure; title: Heart failure with preserved ejection fraction; title: Pulmonary hypertension and right heart disease; title: Hypertensive crisis; title: Pericardial disease; title: Bradyarrhythmia; title: Tachyarrhythmia; title: Atrial fibrillation and atrial flutter; title: Valvular heart disease; title: Syncope; title: Approach to the pulmonary evaluation; title: Hypoxemic respiratory failure; title: Hypercapnic respiratory failure; title: Pulmonary embolism; title: Asthma; title: Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease; title: Pleural effusions; title: Hemoptysis; title: Approach to the infectious diseases evaluation; title: Pneumonia; title: Meningitis; title: Urinary tract infections and pyelonephritis; title: Sepsis; title: HIV/AIDS in hospitalized patients; title: Approach to the gastrointestinal evaluation; title: Acute pancreatitis; title: New-onset jaundice; title: Acute hepatitis; title: Chronic liver disease and portal hypertension; title: Acute gastrointestinal bleeding; title: Approach to the renal evaluation; title: Acute renal failure; title: Chronic kidney disease in the hospitalized patient; title: Metabolic acidosis; title: Hyponatremia; title: Hyperkalemia; title: Diabetic ketoacidosis and hyperosmolar nonketotic coma; title: Management of hospitalized patients with diabetes mellitus; title: Endocrine emergencies; title: Anemia; title: Thrombocytopenia; title: Alcohol intoxication and withdrawal; title: Toxic ingestions; title: The hospitalized elderly patient.