Lecture Notes contains the latest developments on the generic professional and specialty specific capabilities needed to manage patients presenting with a wide range of medical symptoms and conditions covered in the UK AIM curriculum (2022).
In Lecture Notes, readers can expect to find detailed information on: - Generic skills relevant to AIM, such as clinical reasoning, safe prescribing, point of care ultrasound (POCUS), resuscitation, and managing the acute medical take - AIM across the various acute care settings - home (telemedicine, virtual wards, Hospital at Home), ambulatory (same day emergency care), and in-hospital (acute medical unit, enhanced care, critical care) - AIM presentations and conditions in 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 - Common presentations in AIM - Standalone chapters can be read in any sequence, making the text perfect for quick reference
With its accessible coverage of a wide range of AIM content, Lecture Notes: Acute Medicine is an essential resource for medical students, physician trainees, consultants, and other members of the multidisciplinary team working in acute care, patient-facing settings.
Table of Contents
Preface, vii
Contributors, ix
Section One: General Aspects of Acute Medicine, 1
1 Introduction to Acute Medicine, 3
Glenn Matfin and Nick Murch
2 Clinical reasoning in Acute Medicine, 12
Glenn Matfin
3 Generic capabilities relevant to Acute Medicine, 22
Glenn Matfin
4 Safe prescribing in Acute Medicine, 40
Glenn Matfin
5 The acutely unwell patient, 50
Glenn Matfin
6 Resuscitation, 65
James Piper and Glenn Matfin
7 Enhanced and critical care Acute Medicine, 86
Glenn Matfin
8 Acute medicine in the ambulatory care setting, 100
Glenn Matfin
9 Acute medicine in the home, 104
Daniel Lasserson
10 Effective discharge planning, 107
Glenn Matfin
11 Point-of-care ultrasound in Acute Medicine, 113
Rasha Buhumaid
12 Putting it all together -- managing the acute medical take, 138
James Piper
Section Two: Acute Medicine in Special Populations, 145
13 Older persons, 147
Glenn Matfin and Howell Jones
14 Perioperative medicine, 160
Robert Grange, Joshua Griffiths and David Shipway
15 The obstetric woman in the acute setting, 176
Siara Teelucksingh, Emma Page and Anita Banerjee
16 Adolescents and young adults, 194
Glenn Matfin
17 People with learning disabilities, 197
Glenn Matfin
18 Inclusion health, 201
Glenn Matfin
19 Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer or questioning, and others (LGBTQ+), 209
Howell Jones and Glenn Matfin
20 People living with HIV, 215
Nadia Ahmed and Robert Miller
21 The poisoned patient, 221
Glenn Matfin
22 Alcohol, drugs and substance abuse, 230
Nick Murch
23 People with diabetes and other hormonal disorders, 245
Glenn Matfin
24 People with neurological disorders, 299
Hani Ben Amer
25 People with mental health issues, 335
James Bolton
26 Acute oncology, 351
Glenn Matfin
Section Three: Common Presentations in Acute Medicine, 365
27 Common presentations in Acute Medicine, 367
Glenn Matfin and Aya Akhras
Index, 432
