Pocket Guide to Internship

Presenting more than 35 common clinical cases, this book covers a comprehensive range of conditions and scenarios encountered in everyday practice in emergency departments and hospital wards.   This highly practical book adopts a problem-based learning approach designed to help students and interns develop their problem-solving skills and broaden their clinical experience. The second edition has been updated and revised to reflect current medical management and retains its evidence-based approach. Sanjaya Senanayake FRACP , MAppEpid, MBBS (Hons), BSc (Med) Infectious Diseases Physician and Director of Hospital in the Home at Canberra Hospital; Lecturer at the Australian National University Medical School; Conjoint Lecturer at the School of Public Health and Community Medicine, University of New South Wales. Table of contents   1 Mr Nguyen and Mrs Fennech present with chest pain   2 Mr Khan presents with chest pain   3 Mr Winters presents with chest pain   4 Frida presents with palpitations and breathlessness   5 Annika presents with breathlessness and haemoptysis   6 An asthmatic woman presents with shortness of breath   7 A man with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease presents with breathlessness and an abdominal mass   8 Mrs Mason presents with haematemesis   9 Timothy presents with acute abdominal pain   10 Anoushka presents with bloody diarrhoea   11 A case of confusion in a man with cirrhosis   12 Mr Perez presents with right-sided weakness   13 Marwan presents with seizures   14 Mrs Flint presents with lower limb weakness   15 Mr Quixote presents with headache   16 A case of elevated potassium in a man of non-English-speaking background   17 Sasha presents with metabolic acidosis   18 A case of an acutely painful knee   19 Mrs Panetta has a painful jaw   20 Emmanuel suffers a needlestick injury   21 McGyver has postoperative fever   22 Bobby presents with HIV and fever   23 Sachin presents with fever and headache   24 Jean-Paul presents with fever and a rash   25 Ruby presents with fever and cough   26 Mr Edison?s case of antibiotics and anaphylaxis   27 Mr Darcy presents with anaemia   28 Mr Wayne develops fever during blood transfusion   29 Mr Papadopoulos is assessed for low sodium   30 Mr Caesar presents with confusion   31 Cases of hype and hypertension on the wards   32 A case of clots   33 Intravenous fluids   34 Mrs Van Dyke takes an overdose   35 Mr Wilson presents with an acutely painful leg   36 Bruno presents with acute flank pain   37 Indiana returns from overseas with fever