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Washington Manual of Medical Therapeutics (Spiral Bound)

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ISBN-13: 9780781753418
ISBN-10: 0781753414
Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
Format: Spiral
Pub Date: 01/2004
Edition Number: 31



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Established for over 40 years as the Bible of the medical ward, The Washington Manual™ of Medical Therapeutics is now in its Thirty-First Edition—updated up to the moment of publishing to put current, accurate dosages and evidence-based patient management recommendations at your fingertips. Inpatient management has been expanded and chapters on medical consultation, hospital-acquired infections, and pain management and palliative care in oncology have been added. Appendices on drug therapy have been redone in quick-scanning table format. The book’s handy pocket size, easy-to-use outline format, bold headings, plentiful charts and tables, and extensive index ensure fast access to specific information.



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Chapter 1 – Patient Care in Internal Medicine
Yoon Kang and Michael E. Lazarus

  • General Care of the Hospitalized Patient
  • Acute Inpatient Care
  • Sedative and Psychoactive Drug Therapy
  • Medical Consultation

Chapter 2 – Nutritional Therapy
Samuel Klein

Chapter 3 – Fluid and Electrolyte Management
Harry Giles and Anitha Vijayan

  • General Management of Fluids
  • Salt and Water
  • Potassium
  • Calcium
  • Phosphorus
  • Magnesium
  • Acid-Base Disturbances

Chapter 4 – Hypertension
Aubrey R. Morrison

  • Definitions and Diagnostic Evaluation
  • Therapeutic Considerations
  • Special Considerations

Chapter 5 – Ischemic Heart Disease
Anne Carol Goldberg and David Schwartz

  • Differential Diagnosis of Ischemic Chest Pain
  • Primary Prevention
  • Stable Angina
  • Diagnostic Testing and Risk Stratification
  • Unstable Angina and Non-ST-Elevation Myocardial Infarction
  • Subsequent Management of Myocardial Infarction
  • Complications of Myocardial Infarction
  • Secondary Prevention
  • Hyperlipidemia in Patients with Ischemic Heart Disease

Chapter 6 – Heart Failure, Cardiomyopathy, and Valvular Heart Disease
Ioana Dumitru, Joseph G. Rogers, Gregory A. Ewald

  • Heart Failure
  • Cardiomyopathy
  • Pericardial Disease
  • Valvular Heart Disease

Chapter 7 – Arrhythmias
Jane Chen

  • Recognition and Diagnosis
  • Mechanisms of Arrhythmia
  • Treatment

Chapter 8 – Critical Care
Marin H. Kollef

  • Respiratory Failure
  • Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome
  • Oxygen Therapy
  • Airway Management and Tracheal Intubation
  • Mechanical Ventilation
  • Shock
  • Hemodynamic Monitoring and Pulmonary Artery Catheterization

Chapter 9 – Pulmonary Diseases (still out at launch, pls double check when ms comes in)
Authors: Lee Morrow and Javier Sczwarzberg

  • Pulmonary Symptoms
  • Pleural Effusion
  • Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
  • Cystic Fibrosis
  • Pulmonary Embolism
  • Pulmonary Aspiration Syndromes and Lung Abscess
  • Interstitial Lung Disease
  • Pulmonary Hypertension
  • Sleep Apnea Syndrome

Chapter 10 – Allergy and Immunology
Alpa Jani and Mitchell Grayson (Allergy); Adrian Shifren and Mario Castro (Asthma)

  • Drug Reactions
  • Anaphylaxis
  • Asthma
  • Urticaria and Angioedema
  • Eosinophilia
  • Immunodeficiency

Chapter 11 – Renal Diseases
Gopa B. Green and Daniel W. Coyne

  • Evaluation of the Patient with Renal Disease
  • Acute Renal Failure
  • Glomerulonephropathies
  • Chronic Renal Failure
  • Renal Replacement Therapies
  • Nephrolithiasis

Chapter 12 – Antimicrobials
David J. Ritchie and Steven J. Lawrence

  • Antibacterial Agents
  • Antituberculous Agents
  • Antiviral Agents
  • Antifungal Agents