Product Description

The most convenient, quick-access admissions guide available, packed with clinical facts, figures, and data you will refer to again and again

Concise yet complete, this indispensable resource is filled with not-to-be-missed details for admissions orders and the management of newly admitted patients. Hospital Admissions delivers accurate evidence-based data covering the most common diseases and conditions you will encounter in the hospital, making it an ideal at-a-glance resource for all physicians and students writing or learning admitting orders.

Features:

• All the clinical essentials you require for admitting new patients to the medical units-right in the palm of your hand!
• Clear tabular format takes you right to the information you need, helping you to avoid wasting valuable time searching for answers
• Easy-to-follow, consistent template for all tables, consisting of: disposition, monitoring, diet, fluids, oxygen requirements, Dx studies, prophylaxis, consult service, nursing, and medications
• Includes free PDA download for even more ease-of-use and greater convenience

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #22843 in Books
• Published on: 2006-11-20
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 208 pages

About the Author
Anil Patel, MD
Department of Family Medicine
Univerity of Pittsburgh Medical Center
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Customer Reviews

Common Orders
This text is useful for 3rd and 4th more medical students who are beginning to write admission H&Ps, as well as admission orders. I also could see this being useful for interns. The book starts with a section called "Guide Tables," which lists, in table format, commonly used information such as DVT prop. initial vent settings, abx spectrum, and more. The tables are made to be read quickly and are ordered well. The main text of the book is divided into specialty areas. For example, cards, endo, infxn disease and so on. Within each section, there are common admission orders. They follow the standard format. The orders also include a section called "management" which details initial treatment, as well as a section called "diagnosis," which provides more information on rule outs and pearls regarding the diagnosis. Overall, I found the orders to be accurate and succinct. Again, this text is for quick reference, so do not expect explanations, as they are not given. There is a bonus section on toxicology which I think is useful and usually left out of reference texts. In addition to the standard sections, there are sections based on "symptoms" (i.e., chest pain, cough); and a section on symptom management. I think the symptom management section is perfect for the intern who is beginning to memorize the commonly used symptomatic drugs. Overall, I think this is a perfect reference for the medical student who is beginning to write orders and even for a new intern. In comparison to "Medicine," another commonly used order book, this Instant Access book is more thorough, the orders are more reasonable (I have found many problems with the orders in the "Medicine" book. I would recommend this book without reservation.

Great Resourse
This is great resource... esp if you are alone doing admissions and don't want to ask a million questions!

Lifesaver!
This book has been a lifesaver for writing admission orders. Could not imagine working without it!