Acute Medicine Pocketbook

A pocketbook for junior doctors on call, providing outline management for 47 acute medical conditions, based on the best evidence available.Brief, practical guidance on the diagnosis and management of important acute medical conditions - text is simpler, more accessible and more suitable for instant reference than competing books. Based on the best available evidence - recommendations are based on searches and appraisals carried out according to criteria laid down by Sackett et al. No knowledge of EBM or statistics required. Boxes contain clinical tips and warnings. Expert reviewers from centres of excellence in the UK (Oxford) and the North America (Harvard and McMaster). Practice EBM without the hard work of searching and appraisal - someone else has done it for you ! David Sackett has acted as an adviser to the editors. The authors have covered three types of acute conditions - the commonest acute problems, the scariest rare acute problems, and the problems everyone needs help with.