Saint-Frances Guide to Inpatient Medicine

by Saint, Sanjay

• ISBN13: 9780781737289
• ISBN10: 0781737281
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-09-12
• Publisher: LWW

Summary

This concise pocket-sized guide is intended primarily for 3rd and 4th year students in their internal medicine rotation. Written by teaching residents, this book takes a simple and straightforward approach to common medical problems. Broad topics like anemia, renal failure, and vasculitis are broken down into manageable pieces. Mnemonics, used primarily as a means of creating extensive differential diagnoses, are followed by step-by-step instructions. Important "Hot Keys", or clinical pearls, are interspersed at critical junctures throughout the text. New to the Second Edition are sections on hospital-acquired complications, pleural effusions, skin and soft tissue infections, and seizure disorders.

Table of Contents

PART 1: GENERAL APPROACH TO MEDICAL PROBLEMS
1. APPROACH TO DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS	1	(2)
2. APPROACH TO MEDICAL DECISION MAKING	3	(5)
3. PALLIATIVE CARE AND PAIN MANAGEMENT	8	(12)
4. PREVENTING HOSPITAL-ACQUIRED COMPLICATIONS	20	(11)
PART 2: CARDIOLOGY
5. ELECTROCARDIOGRAM INTERPRETATION	31	(9)
6. SYNCOPE	40	(4)
7. ARRHYTHMIAS	44	(14)
8. ATRIAL FIBRILLATION	58	(6)
9. CHEST PAIN	64	(7)
10. ANGINA	71	(7)
11. MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION	78	(13)
12. CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE	91	(6)
13. SHOCK	97	(8)
PART 3: PULMONARY AND CRITICAL CARE
14. ACUTE DYSPNEA	105	(4)
15. MASSIVE HEMOPTYSIS	109	(4)
16. APPROACH TO THE CHEST RADIOGRAPH	113	(4)
17. HYPOXEMIA	117	(3)
18. PULMONARY FUNCTION TESTS	120	(3)
19. OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE	123	(4)
20. RESTRICTIVE LUNG DISEASE	127	(6)
21. COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED PNEUMONIA	133	(4)
22. PULMONARY HYPERTENSION	137	(5)
23. PULMONARY EMBOLISM	142	(6)
24. PLEURAL EFFUSION	148	(6)
25. RESPIRATORY FAILURE	154	(3)
26. MECHANICAL VENTILATION	157	(6)
PART 4: GASTROENTEROLOGY
27. ABDOMINAL PAIN	163	(6)
28. LIVER TESTS	169	(4)
29. ACUTE DIARRHEA	173	(3)
30. ACUTE GASTROINTESTINAL BLEEDING	176	(6)
31. SPLENOMEGALY	182	(4)
32. ASCITES	186	(5)
33. ACUTE PANCREATITIS	191	(4)
34. ALCOHOLIC LIVER DISEASE	195	(4)
35. LIVER FAILURE	199	(8)
PART 5: RENAL/ACID-BASE
36. OVERVIEW OF NEPHROLOGY	207	(2)
37. ACUTE RENAL FAILURE	209	(11)
38. NEPHROTIC SYNDROME	220	(4)
39. NEPHRITIC SYNDROME	224	(4)
40. RENAL TUBULAR DEFECTS	228	(3)
41. URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS	231	(7)
42. APPROACH TO ACID-BASE DISORDERS	238	(8)
43. HYPONATREMIA	246	(4)
44. HYPERNATREMIA	250	(2)
45. HYPOKALEMIA	252	(3)
46. HYPERKALEMIA	255	(4)
47. HYPERTENSION	259	(4)
PART 6: INFECTIOUS DISEASES
48. APPROACH TO FEVER	263	(6)
49. APPROACH TO MICROBIOLOGY	269	(4)
50. FEVER AND RASH	273	(6)
51. FEVER OF UNKNOWN ORIGIN	279	(5)
52. SKIN AND SOFT TISSUE INFECTIONS	284	(5)
53. ACUTE RHEUMATIC FEVER	289	(3)
54. INFECTIVE ENDOCARDITIS	292	(6)
55. CD4 COUNTS AND COMPLICATIONS OF HIV INFECTION	298	(3)
56. PULMONARY DISEASE IN HIV-INFECTED PATIENTS	301	(4)
57. GASTROINTESTINAL MANIFESTATIONS OF HIV DISEASE	305	(5)
58. NEUROLOGIC MANIFESTATIONS OF HIV DISEASE	310	(7)
PART 7: HEMATOLOGY/ONCOLOGY
59. PANCYTOPENIA	317	(5)
60. THROMBOCYTOPENIA	322	(6)
61. THROMBOCYTOSIS	328	(3)
62. ANEMIA	331	(6)
63. POLYCYTHEMIA	337	(4)
64. LEUKOCYTOSIS	341	(4)
65. EOSINOPHILIA	345	(2)
66. BLEEDING DISORDERS	347	(10)
67. HYPERCOAGULABLE STATES	357	(5)
68. LYMPHADENOPATHY	362	(4)
69. LYMPHOMA	366	(7)
70. MYELOPROLIFERATIVE VERSUS MYELODYSPLASTIC SYNDROMES	373	(8)
71. ACUTE LEUKEMIA	381	(6)
72. PLASMA CELL DYSCRASIAS	387	(5)
73. METASTATIC NEOPLASMS	392	(5)
PART 8: RHEUMATOLOGY
74. MONOARTICULAR ARTHRITIS	397	(5)
75. POLYARTICULAR ARTHRITIS	402	(5)
76. VASCULITIS	407	(8)
PART 9: ENDOCRINOLOGY
77. HYPERCALCEMIA	415	(3)
78. HYPOCALCEMIA	418	(3)
79. DIABETIC KETOACIDOSIS	421	(7)
80. THYROID DISEASE	428	(6)
81. ADRENAL INSUFFICIENCY	434	(5)
PART 10: NEUROLOGY
82. ALTERED MENTAL STATUS	439	(4)
83. PERIPHERAL NEUROPATHY	443	(5)
84. VERTIGO	448	(4)
85. SINGULTUS	452	(2)
86. SEIZURE DISORDERS	454	(7)
87. STROKE	461	(7)
88. MENINGITIS	468	(7)
89. SPINAL CORD COMPRESSION	475	(4)
PART 11: DERMATOLOGY
90. EXANTHEMS	479	(4)
91. PRURITUS	483	(3)
92. CLUBBING	486	(3)
PART 12: TOXICOLOGY
93. ALCOHOL INTOXICATION AND WITHDRAWAL	489	(6)
94. TOXICOLOGIC EMERGENCIES	495	(10)
Appendix: Procedures	505