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Referenced to Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine, the world's leading internal medicine textbook, this ultra-handy, portable reference delivers on-the-spot answers to the clinical problems you face in everyday practice. Turn to any page, and you'll find essential point-of-care guidance on all the major conditions seen in clinical medicine.
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- Signs & Symptoms
- Differential Diagnosis
- Physical and Laboratory Findings
- Therapeutics
- Practice Guidelines
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Table of contents
Section 1: Care of the Hospitalized Patient
1 Initial Patient Evaluation and Admission to the Hospital
2 Electrolytes/Acid-Base Balance
3 Diagnositic Imaging in Internal Medicine
4 Procedures Commonly Performed by Internists
5 Principles of Critical Care Medicine
6 Pain and Its Management
7 Medical Evaluation of the Surgical Patient
8 Assessment of Nutritional Status
9 Enteral and Parenteral Nutrition
10 Transfusion and Pheresis Therapy
11 End of Life Care
Section 2: Medical Emergencies
12 Cardiovascular Collapse and Sudden Death13 Shock
14 Sepsis and Septic Shock
15 Acute Pulmonary Edema
16 Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS)
17 Respiratory Failure
18 Confusion, Stupor, and Coma
19 Stroke
20 Subarachnoid Hemorrhage
21 Increased Intracranial Pressure and Head Trauma
22 Spinal Cord Compression
23 Hypoxic-Ischemic Encephalopathy
24 Status Epilepticus
25 Diabetic Ketoacidosis and Hyperosmolar Coma
26 Hypoglycemia
27 Infectious Disease Emergencies
28 Oncologic Emergencies
29 Anaphylaxis
30 Bites, Venoms, Stings, and Marine Poisonings
31 Hypothermia and Frostbite
32 Poisoning and Drug Overdose
33 Bioterrorism
Section 3: Common Patient Presentations
34 Chest Pain
35 Abdominal Pain
36 Headache
37 Back and Neck Pain
38 Fever, Hyperthermia, Chills, and Rash
39 Pain and Swelling of Joints
40 Syncope
41 Dizziness and Vertigo
42 Acute Visual Loss and Double Vision
43 Paralysis
44 Tremor and Movement Disorders
45 Aphasia and Related Disorders
46 Sleep Disorders
47 Dyspnea
48 Cough and Hemoptysis
49 Hypoxia and Cyanosis
50 Edema
51 Nausea, Vomiting, and Indigestion
52 Weight Loss
53 Dysphagia
54 Diarrhea, Constipation and Malabsorption
55 Gastrointestinal Bleeding
56 Jaundice and Evaluation of Liver Function
57 Ascites
58 Azotemia and Urinary Abnormalities
59 Anemia and Polycythemia
60 Lymphadenopathy and Splenomegaly
61 Generalized Weakness and Fatigue
Section 4: Ophthalmology and Otolaryngology
62 Common Disorders of Vision and Hearing
63 Sinusitis, Pharyngitis, Otitis and Other Upper Respiratory Infections
Section 5: Dermatology
Author comments
Anthony S. Fauci, MD, ScD(HON)
Chief, Laboratory of Immunoregulation; Director,
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD
Eugene Braunwald, MD, ScD(HON)
Distinguished Hersey Professor of Medicine
Harvard Medical School; Chairman, TIMI Study Group
Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA
Dennis L. Kasper, MD, MA(HON)
William Ellery Channing Professor of Medicine
Professor of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics
Harvard Medical School; director, Channing Laboratory
Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA
Stephen L. Hauser, MD
Robert A. Fishman Distinguished Professor and Chairman
Department of Neurology, University of California, San Francisco
San Francisco, CA
Dan L. Longo, MD
Scientific Director, National Institute on Aging
National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD
J. Larry Jameson, MD, PhD
Professor of Medicine
Vice President for Medical Affairs and Lewis Landsberg Dean
Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine
Chicago, IL
Joseph Loscalzo, MD, PhD
Hersey Professor of the Theory and Practice of Medicine
Harvard Medical School; Chairman, Department of Medicine
Physician-in-Chief, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA
