Acute Medicine Lecture Notes

Lecture Notes discusses the principles of the initial assessment, investigation, diagnosis, and management of adult patients with everyday Acute Internal Medicine (AIM) presentations and conditions. This textbook is wide in scope and covers topics ranging from initial identification of acute medical illness, through to effective discharge planning.

Lecture Notes contains the latest developments on the generic professional and specialty specific capabilities needed to manage patients presenting with a wide range of medical symptoms and conditions covered in the UK AIM curriculum (2022).

In Lecture Notes, readers can expect to find detailed information on:

• Generic skills relevant to AIM, such as clinical reasoning, safe prescribing, point of care ultrasound (POCUS), resuscitation, and managing the acute medical take
• AIM across the various acute care settings – home (telemedicine, virtual wards, Hospital at Home), ambulatory (same day emergency care), and in-hospital (acute medical unit, enhanced care, critical care)
• AIM presentations and conditions in special populations such as older people, pregnancy, people with HIV, LGBTQ+, inclusion medicine, people with learning disabilities, perioperative medicine, people with mental illness and more
• Common presentations in AIM
• Standalone chapters can be read in any sequence, making the text perfect for quick reference

With its accessible coverage of a wide range of AIM content, Lecture Notes: Acute Medicine is an essential resource for medical students, physician trainees, consultants, and other members of the multidisciplinary team working in acute care, patient-facing settings.

Glenn Matfin is Chief of Medicine at University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) Fresno, and Valley Medical Foundation Endowed Chair in Medicine, Fresno, CA, USA. He is also Vice-Chair of Medicine at UCSF and Professor of Clinical Medicine at UCSF. He was previously Consultant Physician and Honorary Professor of Medicine in AIM, Diabetes and Endocrinology in the UK NHS.

Preface

Section 1:

               1             Introduction to Acute Medicine

               2             Clinical Reasoning in Acute Medicine

               3             Generic capabilities relevant to Acute Medicine

               4             Safe Prescribing in Acute Medicine

               5             The Acutely unwell patient

               6             Resuscitation

               7             Enhanced and Critical Care Acute Medicine

               8             Acute Medicine in the Ambulatory Care Setting

               9             Acute Medicine in the Home

               10           Effective Discharge Planning

               11           Point of Care Ultrasound (POCUS) in Acute Medicine

               12           Putting it all Together - Managing the Acute Medical Take

Section 2:

               13           Older Persons

               14           Perioperative medicine

               14           Perioperative medicine

               14           Perioperative medicine

               15           The Obstetric Woman in the Acute Setting

               15           The Obstetric Woman in the Acute Setting

               15           The Obstetric Woman in the Acute Setting

               16           Adolescents and Young Adults

               17           People with Learning Disabilities

               18           Inclusion Medicine

               19           LGBTQ+ (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer and Questioning, and Others)

               19           LGBTQ+ (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer and Questioning, and Others)

               20           People living with HIV

               20           People living with HIV

               21           The Poisoned patient

               22           Alcohol, Drugs and Substance abuse

               23           People with Diabetes and other hormonal disorders

               24           People with Neurological disorders

               25           People with Mental Health issues

               26           Acute Oncology

Section 3:

               27           Common presentations in Acute Medicine

Index

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