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**Selected for 2025 Doody’s Core Titles® with "Essential Purchase" designation in Emergency Care**
A Clinician’s Survival Guide to Acute Medical Emergencies, Fourth Edition is a primer in acute emergency care aimed at nursing staff, senior medical students, Foundation Year doctors and physician assistants.
This textbook outlines the observations, clinical management and interventions in the critical first 24 hours of admission, based on an understanding of the underlying disease mechanisms.
The new edition has been updated to cover the management of COVID, the most recent advances in the care of common medical emergencies and the latest iteration of the NEWS Guidance.
With a unique focus on the overlap between medical and nursing management in the Acute Medical Unit, this book is an ideal source for the entire acute medical team.
1. Introduction: Immediate Assessment of the Critically Ill
2. Cardiology
3. Respiratory Medicine
4. Acute Neurological Problems
5. Gastroenterology
6. Diabetic Complications
7. Thromboembolic Disease
8. Deliberate Self-Harm, Alcohol and Substance Use Disorders
9. The 'Social Admission'
10. Multisystem Failure
11. Emerging Problems: Outbreaks and Deliberate ReleasesâSARS and COVID-19, Toxins and Biologic Agents
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