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• Title:The hands-on guide for junior doctors / Anna Donald, Michael Stein, Ciaran Scott Hill.
  
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• Author/Creator:Donald, Anna.
  
• Other Contributors/Collections:Stein, Michael.
  Hill, Ciaran.
  
• Published/Created:Chichester, West Sussex, UK ; Hoboken, NJ : Wiley-Blackwell, 2011.
  

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  • Call Number: WX203 .D675 2011
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

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  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Residents (Medicine)--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
  Medicine--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
  
• Medical Subjects: Medical Staff, Hospital--organization & administration--Great Britain--Handbooks.
  Clinical Competence--Great Britain--Handbooks.
  Internship and Residency--organization & administration--Great Britain--Handbooks.
  Medicine--Great Britain--Handbooks.
  
• Genre/Form:Handbooks and manuals.
  
• Edition:4th ed.
  
• Description:xviii, 265 pages : ill ; 19 cm.
  
• Summary:This book provides an introduction to handling common medical scenarios, as well as discussion of the daily work life of a doctor.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
  
• ISBN:9781444334661 (hardcover : alk. paper)
  1444334662 (hardcover : alk. paper)
  
• Contents:Machine generated contents note: Panic?
  People to help you
  Three basic tips
  Other useful start-up information
  Dress
  Equipment
  First-day paperwork
  Geography
  Ward rounds
  Social rounds
  Night rounds
  Discharging patients
  Work environment
  Bibliography
  Personal folder and the lists
  How to make a personal folder
  Keeping track of patients (List 1)
  List of things to do (List 2)
  Results sheet (List 3)
  Data protection and confidentiality
  Patient notes
  Accident forms
  Blood forms and requesting bloods
  Consent
  Death and cremation certificates
  Discharge summaries (TTO/TTA)
  Drug charts
  Drug prescriptions
  Handovers
  Referral letters
  Self-discharge
  Sick notes
  General
  Admitting and allocating patients
  Keeping track of patients
  Medicine
  Overdose
  In general
  Treating the patient
  Surgery
  Medical and surgical assessment units (MAUs and SAUs)
  Fast-track patients
  Foundation programmes (for UK readers)
  Assessments
  Moving on from the Foundation programme
  Information technology
  internet
  Online medical databases
  Keeping up with the literature
  Evidence-based medicine
  Clinical governance and paraclinical work
  Clinical audit
  Case reports
  Courses
  Professionalism
  Communication
  Consultants and senior registrars
  GPs
  Nurses
  Patients
  Patients' families
  Confidentiality
  Exceptions to keeping confidentiality
  Consent
  References
  Cardiac arrest calls
  'Do not resuscitate' (DNR) orders
  How to use this section
  Considerations for all ward calls
  Abdominal pain
  Differential diagnoses
  Anaemia
  Arrhythmia
  Calcium
  Hypercalcaemia
  Hypocalcaemia
  Chest pain
  Differential diagnoses
  Confusion
  Differential diagnoses
  Constipation
  Differential diagnoses
  Diarrhoea
  Differential diagnoses
  Electrocardiograms
  Important ECG abnormalities to recognize
  Eye complaints
  acute red eye
  Sudden loss of vision in one or both eyes
  Floaters
  Falls
  Differential diagnoses
  Fever
  Differential diagnosis
  immunocompromised patient with fever
  Fits
  Differential diagnoses
  Intravenous fluids
  Upper gastrointestinal bleeds
  Lower gastrointestinal bleeds
  Glucose
  Haematuria
  Headaches
  Differential diagnoses and key symptoms
  Hypertension
  Peri-operative hypertension
  Hypotension
  Differential diagnoses
  Insomnia
  Differential diagnoses and suggested management
  Management with benzodiazepines
  Itching
  Differential diagnoses (if no visible skin lesions or rash)
  Major trauma
  Minor trauma
  moribund patient
  Nausea and vomiting
  Differential diagnoses
  Oxygen therapy
  Methods of oxygen delivery
  Pulse oximetry
  Phlebitis
  Management
  Potassium
  Hyperkalaemia
  Hypokalaemia
  Rashes and skin lesions
  Disease categories 1-10
  Shortness of breath
  Differential diagnoses
  Diagnosing the important common conditions causing acute SOB
  sick patient
  Sodium
  Hyponatraemia
  Differential diagnoses
  Transfusions
  Blood transfusions
  Platelet transfusions
  Urine, low output (oliguria/anuria)
  Basic emergency routine
  Obstetrics and gynaecology calls
  Talking to the patient
  Gynaecological examination
  Obstetric examination
  Being a male
  Common gynaecological calls
  Termination of pregnancy (TOP)
  Terminal care
  Communication
  Breaking bad news
  Ongoing communication with dying patients
  Pain control
  Symptom control
  Prescribing for the dying
  Support for the dying and for you
  Death
  What to do when a patient dies
  Telling relatives about the patient's death
  Religious practices on death
  Post mortems
  Death certificates
  Writing the death certificate
  Referring to the coroner (Scotland: procurator fiscal)
  Cremation forms and fees
  To check for pacemakers
  Further reading
  General
  Prescribing drugs
  Drug charts
  Writing prescriptions
  Controlled drugs
  Verbals
  Giving drugs
  Drug infusions
  Intravenous drugs
  Specific drug topics
  Antibiotics
  Anticoagulation
  Anti-emetics
  Digoxin
  Night sedation
  Therapeutic drug levels
  Steroids
  Miscellaneous tips
  Alcoholism
  Alcohol withdrawal
  Children
  Depression
  Elderly patients
  Haemophiliacs
  Taking blood
  For theatre
  HIV/AIDS
  Taking blood
  HIV testing
  Jehovah's Witnesses/Christian Scientists
  Pregnant women
  Sickle cell anaemia
  patient on steroids
  Side effects of steroids
  Managing ill patients on steroids
  Treating common side effects
  Withdrawing steroid therapy
  History and examination
  Clinical stalemate
  Preparing patients for medical procedures
  Cardiac catheterization
  Elective DC cardioversion
  Upper gastrointestinal endoscopy
  Colonoscopy
  Flexible sigmoidoscopy
  Liver biopsy
  Pacemaker insertion
  Renal biopsy
  Specialist referrals and investigating the medical case
  Cardiology
  Gastroenterology
  Haematology
  Neurology
  Renal medicine
  Respiratory medicine
  Rheumatology
  Pain control
  General
  Specific analgesics
  Inhaled drugs
  Oral drugs
  IM/IV opiates
  Other
  Pain control by severity and underlying condition
  General hints
  Arterial blood gases
  Interpreting arterial blood gases
  Respiratory disease and arterial blood gases interpretation
  Bladder catheterization
  Men
  Women
  Blood cultures
  Venepuncture
  Cannulation (Venflon/Line insertion)
  Central lines
  Insertion of central lines
  Problems with temporary and tunnelled central lines
  Using central lines
  Measuring the CVP
  Chest drains
  Managing a chest drain
  How to remove a drain
  DC cardioversion
  Electrocardiogram
  Reading ECGs
  Exercise stress test
  Relative contraindications (discuss with senior)
  procedure
  Glucose tolerance test
  Injections
  Subcutaneous
  Intramuscular
  Intercostal block
  Joint aspiration/injection
  Aspiration
  Injecting joints
  Local anaesthesia (for any procedure)
  Lumbar puncture
  Mantoux test
  Nasogastric tubes
  Peritoneal tap (paracentesis)
  Pleural aspiration
  Pulsus paradoxus
  Respiratory function tests
  Spirometry
  Peak expiratory flow rate
  Sutures
  Requesting investigations
  Minimizing radiation
  Common concerns about X-rays
  Pregnancy
  Plain films
  Chest X-rays before surgery
  Skull X-rays
  Abdominal films
  Contrast studies
  Intravenous urography
  Barium swallow
  Barium meal
  Small bowel enema
  Barium enema
  Ultrasound
  Computed tomography
  General
  CT head, some emergency indications
  Arteriography
  Magnetic resonance imaging
  Radioisotope scanning
  Clerking: pre-admission clinic
  Perioperative prescribing
  Consent
  Common or important expected side effects after specific surgical procedures
  Anaesthetics
  Drawing up theatre lists
  Marking patients for surgery
  Post-operative care
  Complicated patients
  Jaundice
  Diabetes
  Steroid-dependent patients
  Thyroid surgery
  Pituitary surgery
  Day surgery
  Oro-facio-maxillary surgery
  Surgical protocol clerking sheet
  What you can and cannot do
  You can:
  You cannot:
  Referral letters and note keeping
  General points
  Public health and health promotion
  hidden agenda and health beliefs
  Follow-up
  Home visits
  Accommodation
  Alternative careers
  Bleep
  British Medical Association (BMA)
  Car and insurance
  Clothes (laundry/stains)
  Contacting medical colleagues
  Contract and conditions of service
  What you need to know about your contract
  Doctors' mess
  Making money for the mess
  Drug representatives
  European Working Time Directive
  Insurance (room contents)
  Jobs
  Trust and other non-training posts
  Curriculum vitae
  interview
  Consultant career prospects
  Locums
  Meals
  Medical defence
  Money
  Income protection if long-term sick or disabled
  Student debt
  Mortgages
  Payslip deductions
  Pensions
  Tax
  Telephone and online banking
  Needlestick injuries
  If the patient is known to be HIV-positive
  If the patient is known to be hepatitis-positive
  Not coping
  Part-time work (flexible training)
  Representation of junior doctors
  Sleep and on-call rooms
  When things go wrong
  Bullying and psychological stress
  Whistle-blowing
  Addresses
  Barthel score
  Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS)
  Mental Health Act
  Mini-mental test score
  Notifiable diseases
  Results
  Haematology
  Biochemistry
  Useful biochemical formulae
  Fitness to drive.