Description

Acute Medicine is written for registrars, junior doctors and medical students working on the wards. It is a current and concise guide to hospital emergency medicine which provides:
• detailed management of acute medical and surgical emergencies, including in pregnancy
• general ward management issues
• descriptions of key procedures
• normal laboratory values
• drug formulary covering the common drugs you will use every day.
It is not just a list of instructions, but contains detailed pathophysiology and useful clinical pearls.
It is designed to be carried round in a pocket for easy reference.