Acute Medicine : A Practical Guide to the Management of Medical Emergencies (5th)

Very useful book centered on management aspect.Well written. Helping me a lot. Thanks to the author. It's a total life saver.

This consists of alternate flowcharts and in depth small text. Not really the sort of tome you can easily access in a crisis (indexed cut pages always would be more useful). Whether the Kindle version would work better is a moot point, especially if your care environment already supplies digital tablets. Fast searching is more likely to work. I think this book is a victim of its own meticulousness and needs a fuller rethink to decrease access time.

An essential medical reference handbook. Very well organised for quick, easy reference particularly for junior doctors, who if they pick this up, will find it is in time well thumbed. It's not an easily transportable edition- it's definitely one for the desktop/bookshelf where it can be easily referred to, but in that capacity it's just the job. Can't go wrong.

This is a great medical reference book for the protocols involved in Acute Medicine treatments and follow-up care. Well indexed and categorised. Shows how patients present in A&E and all the possible scenarios, tests, scans, checks to be carried out and eliminating certain other conditions etc. Often it's the scans and blood tests, as well as clinical observations/patient history that lead to the answers, but all possibles must be looked at before formulating a diagnosis and patient care. Having been a patient myself at the sharp end of acute care on a number of occasions, it is interesting to see how the doctors were able to follow set procedures in order to diagnose me etc. Covers hundreds of conditions.A great reference for any budding doctor.

This is an excellent, process-oriented text and aide-memiore for any medical student or newly-qualified doctor working in emergency medicine. Each chapter is short, sharp and straight to the point - it's all about working out the definitive diagnosis and, with flowcharts and clear, concise instructions and explanations, mostly in point form, tables or lists. There is no waffle or dross in here, it is a real handbook that will not be out of place in any A&E department as a reference for new staff, or on the bookshelf of any student doctor or nurse.