IMAI district clinician manual
Subtitle: hospital care for adolescents and adults : guidelines for the management of common illnesses with limited resources
Contributors: Röhr-Rouendaal, Petra, illustrator; L'IV Com Sàrl; World Health Organization
Publisher: World Health Organization
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Geneva, Switzerland
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9789241548311; 9789241548281; 9789241548290
Subjects: Community health services; Standards; Medical care; Disease management; Community Health Services; Health Resources; Supply & demand; Delivery of Health Care; Disease Management; Adolescent; Adult
Other titles: Integrated Management of Adolescent and Adult Illness district clinician manual; Hospital care for adolescents and adults: guidelines for the management of common illnesses with limited resources
Notes: "Cover images: Robert Thatcher, Petra Rohr-Rouendaal; Production coordination: L'IV Com Sàrl, Villars-sous-Yens, Switzerland." --Verso of title page.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: v.1 : -- 1.; title: Introduction, assumptions, and principles of this manual -- -- 2.; title: Quick Check and emergency treatments -- -- 3.; title: Approach to the severly ill patient (after the Quick Check) -- -- 4.; title: Trauma: approach to the acutely injured patient -- -- 5.; title: Approach to laboratory investigations --; title: 6.; title: Infection prevention and control  -- -- 7.; title: Procedures -- -- 8.; title: Medicines/therapies -- -- v.2 : -- 9.; title: HIV diagnosis -- -- 10.; title: Acute and subacute by sympton -- -- 11.; title: Multisystem communicable diseases, renal and HIV-related cancers (in alphabetical order) -- -- 12.; title: Chronic and long-term care -- -- 13.; title: Chronic HIV care, antiretroviral therapy (ART), and prevention -- -- 14.; title: PMTCT, HIV prevention, care and treatment during pregnancy, and family planning -- -- 15.; title: Tuberculosis -- -- 16.; title: Assessment and therapy for alcohol use disorders -- -- 17.; title: Substance use  -- -- 18.; title: General principles of geriatric care -- -- 19.; title: Prevention services for adolescents, adults and health workers -- -- 20.; title: Palliative care: sympton management and end-of-life care -- -- 21.; title: Patient monitoring and reporting including reporting outbreaks and pharmacovigilance.