Acute Medicine; Clinical Cases Uncovered

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Acute Medicine is the central part of foundation and specialist general medical training and is one of the most rapidly expanding UK hospital specialties.

Acute Medicine: Clinical Cases Uncovered combines patient cases and outcomes, drawn from real–life experiences, with reference to the curriculum for Training in General (Acute) Medicine. It provides self–assessment MCQs, EMQs and SAQs to give medical students, junior doctors, nurses and allied healthcare professionals the perfect preparation for life on the wards.

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Traditionally, medical text books have tended to be structured around clinical diagnoses. Chapters entitled: 'Myocardial Infarction', 'Pneumonia', 'Peptic ulceration', etc, may incorporate detailed descriptions of each condition's epidemiology, physiology and clinical features. Sadly 'real' clinical medicine is not this simple - patients present with a problem, rather than a diagnosis; the latter is often only reached after careful assessment and investigation. 'Acute Medicine - Clinical Cases Uncovered' tackles this challenge by starting with the patient's initial complaint and working through to the diagnosis via a series of clinical questions. Each chapter tackles a different problem, and I have selected these to reflect the common scenarios which students, junior doctors and nurses could expect to encounter on the Acute Medical Unit.

Having worked as a consultant in Acute Medicine for over 10 years I have seen patients with many hundreds of different diagnoses. Fortunately the problems with which they presented to hospital can be categorised into a much smaller number of groups. The 22 cases selected for inclusion should encompass the presenting complaint of more than 80% of the medical patients admitted as emergencies.

I hope that readers will find this a useful book. Although originally aimed at clinical medical students, I understand that nurses, junior doctors and allied healthcare professionals working in the field of acute medicine have all found it useful. The Acute Medical Unit can be an intimidating environment for students, but is also a rich resouce for learning. I feel that this is the sort of text book which I would like to have owned as a student going onto the wards for the first time, and hope that it will help to make the first encounters with 'real clinical medicine' less daunting!

ISBN : 9781405168830, Author : Roseveare, Publisher : WileyBlackwell - 2009, Dimensions : 24.2 x 18.4 x 1.6 cm, Paperback : 256 pages

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