Hospital Medicine Clinical Management

Fast, Practical Guidance for Acute Presentations, Inpatient Emergencies, and Everyday Ward Challenges

von Emily T. Kendricks, Jeffrey J. Hollister, Leah M. Cranston

410 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

A hospital day can change in minutes. A patient who looked stable on morning rounds may develop chest pain, confusion, hypoxemia, hypotension, fever, or a new laboratory abnormality before the next handoff.HOSPITAL MEDICINE CLINICAL MANAGEMENT is built for those moments-and for the dozens of smaller decisions that make up everyday ward care. It provides focused clinical guidance for approaching acute presentations, recognizing inpatient emergencies, organizing the differential, starting treatment, and reassessing the patient as new information appears.The emphasis is practical rather than encyclopedic. Readers are guided to identify which findings are immediately dangerous, which problems can be managed in sequence, and which changes should trigger escalation, consultation, or a revision of the working diagnosis. The same approach applies to common ward challenges: worsening respiratory status, unstable vital signs, altered mental status, electrolyte disturbances, medication complications, infection, pain, fluid imbalance, glycemic problems, and unexpected deterioration.Hospital care also requires decisions that are less dramatic but just as consequential. A patient may need several active problems managed at once. Treatments may interact. A new test result may make yesterday's plan obsolete. Discharge readiness can change after one overnight event. The book therefore keeps attention on monitoring, response to therapy, medication review, handoffs, consultation, and the practical question that follows every intervention: what should happen next if the patient improves, remains unchanged, or gets worse?Its ward-centered structure makes the book useful for hospitalists, internists, residents, medical students on inpatient rotations, advanced practice clinicians, and other professionals who need a fast way to organize common inpatient problems without losing clinical context.The goal is not simply to provide more facts. It is to make the next decision easier to see-what must be treated now, what must be ruled out, what can be monitored, and when the situation no longer belongs on a routine pathway.Use HOSPITAL MEDICINE CLINICAL MANAGEMENT when the ward gets busy, the presentation is changing, and the safest plan depends on recognizing the problem early, acting with purpose, and reassessing before the next challenge arrives.

• Reihe: Independently published
• ISBN: 9798176368819
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 23.09.2026
• Größe: 279 x 216 mm
• Verlag: Independently published