Pocket Medicine: The Massachusetts General Hospital Handbook of Internal Medicine (Pocket Notebook Series)

The Pocket Medicine manual from Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, provides key clinical data for students and residents. It includes areas of internal medicine, cardiology, pulmonary, gastroenterology, nephrology, hematology-oncology, infectious diseases, endocrinology, and rheumatology. Cover Page ......Page 1 Title Page......Page 3 Copyright......Page 4 Contents......Page 5 Contributing Authors......Page 8 Foreword......Page 11 Preface......Page 12 ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY......Page 13 CHEST PAIN......Page 15 NONINVASIVE EVALUATION OF CAD......Page 16 CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY AND REVASCULARIZATION......Page 17 ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROMES......Page 18 PA CATHETER AND TAILORED THERAPY......Page 24 HEART FAILURE......Page 26 CARDIOMYOPATHIES......Page 29 VALVULAR HEART DISEASE......Page 32 PERICARDIAL DISEASE......Page 37 HYPERTENSION......Page 40 AORTIC ANEURYSM......Page 42 ACUTE AORTIC SYNDROMES......Page 43 ARRHYTHMIAS......Page 44 ATRIAL FIBRILLATION......Page 47 SYNCOPE......Page 49 INTRACARDIAC DEVICES......Page 51 CARDIAC RISK ASSESSMENT FOR NONCARDIAC SURGERY......Page 52 NOTES ......Page 54 PULMONARY FUNCTION TESTS (PFTs)......Page 55 ASTHMA......Page 56 CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE PULMONARY DISEASE......Page 59 SOLITARY PULMONARY NODULE......Page 61 OBSTRUCTIVE SLEEP APNEA (OSA)......Page 62 INTERSTITIAL LUNG DISEASE......Page 63 PLEURAL EFFUSION......Page 65 VENOUS THROMBOEMBOLISM (VTE)......Page 67 PULMONARY HYPERTENSION (PHT)......Page 70 RESPIRATORY FAILURE......Page 72 MECHANICAL VENTILATION......Page 73 ACUTE RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME......Page 76 SEPSIS......Page 77 NOTES ......Page 78 ESOPHAGEAL AND GASTRIC DISORDERS......Page 79 GASTROINTESTINAL BLEEDING......Page 81 DIARRHEA, CONSTIPATION, AND ILEUS......Page 83 DIVERTICULAR DISEASE......Page 87 INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASE......Page 88 INTESTINAL ISCHEMIA......Page 90 PANCREATITIS......Page 91 ABNORMAL LIVER TESTS......Page 93 HEPATITIS......Page 95 ACUTE LIVER FAILURE......Page 98 CIRRHOSIS......Page 99 HEPATIC VASCULAR DISEASE......Page 103 ASCITES......Page 104 BILIARY TRACT DISEASE......Page 105 ACID-BASE DISTURBANCES......Page 107 SODIUM AND WATER HOMEOSTASIS......Page 112 POTASSIUM HOMEOSTASIS......Page 116 RENAL FAILURE......Page 118 GLOMERULAR DISEASE......Page 122 URINALYSIS......Page 124 NEPHROLITHIASIS......Page 125 NOTES ......Page 126 ANEMIA......Page 127 DISORDERS OF HEMOSTASIS......Page 132 PLATELET DISORDERS......Page 133 COAGULOPATHIES......Page 136 HYPERCOAGULABLE STATES......Page 137 DISORDERS OF LEUKOCYTES......Page 138 TRANSFUSION THERAPY......Page 139 MYELODYSPLASTIC SYNDROMES (MDS)......Page 140 MYELOPROLIFERATIVE NEOPLASMS (MPN)......Page 141 LEUKEMIA......Page 143 LYMPHOMA......Page 147 PLASMA CELL DYSCRASIAS......Page 150 HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION (HSCT)......Page 152 LUNG CANCER......Page 154 BREAST CANCER......Page 156 PROSTATE CANCER......Page 158 COLORECTAL CANCER (CRC)......Page 159 PANCREATIC TUMORS......Page 161 ONCOLOGIC EMERGENCIES......Page 162 CANCER OF UNKNOWN PRIMARY SITE......Page 163 NOTES......Page 164 PNEUMONIA......Page 165 FUNGAL INFECTIONS......Page 167 INFECTIONS IN SUSCEPTIBLE HOSTS......Page 168 URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS (UTI)......Page 169 SOFT TISSUE AND BONE INFECTIONS......Page 170 INFECTIONS OF THE NERVOUS SYSTEM......Page 173 BACTERIAL ENDOCARDITIS......Page 176 TUBERCULOSIS......Page 179 HIV/AIDS......Page 181 TICK-BORNE DISEASES......Page 185 FEVER OF UNKNOWN ORIGIN (FUO)......Page 187 NOTES ......Page 188 PITUITARY DISORDERS......Page 189 DISORDERS OF MULTIPLE ENDOCRINE SYSTEMS......Page 190 THYROID DISORDERS......Page 191 ADRENAL DISORDERS......Page 195 CALCIUM DISORDERS......Page 199 DIABETES MELLITUS......Page 201 LIPID DISORDERS......Page 204 ARTHRITIS—OVERVIEW......Page 205 RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS (RA)......Page 207 RELAPSING POLYCHONDRITIS......Page 208 CRYSTAL DEPOSITION ARTHRITIDES......Page 209 SERONEGATIVE SPONDYLOARTHRITIS......Page 211 INFECTIOUS ARTHRITIS & BURSITIS......Page 213 CONNECTIVE TISSUE DISEASES......Page 215 SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS (SLE)......Page 219 VASCULITIS......Page 221 CRYOGLOBULINEMIA......Page 225 AMYLOIDOSIS......Page 226 CHANGE IN MENTAL STATUS......Page 227 SEIZURES......Page 229 ALCOHOL WITHDRAWAL......Page 231 STROKE......Page 232 WEAKNESS & NEUROMUSCULAR DYSFUNCTION......Page 234 HEADACHE......Page 236 BACK AND SPINAL CORD DISEASE......Page 237 ACLS ALGORITHMS......Page 239 ICU MEDICATIONS......Page 242 ANTIBIOTICS......Page 244 FORMULAE AND QUICK REFERENCE......Page 245 NOTES......Page 250 ABBREVIATIONS......Page 251 INDEX......Page 257 Radiology......Page 267 Echocardiography......Page 275 Peripheral Blood Smears......Page 279 Leukemias......Page 280 Urinalysis......Page 281

Prepared by residents and attending physicians at Massachusetts General Hospital, this pocket-sized looseleaf is one of the best-selling references for medical students, interns, and residents on the wards and candidates reviewing for internal medicine board exams. In bulleted lists, tables, and algorithms, Pocket Medicine provides key clinical information about common problems in internal medicine, cardiology, pulmonary medicine, gastroenterology, nephrology, hematology-oncology, infectious diseases, endocrinology, and rheumatology.

The six-ring binder resembles the familiar "pocket brain" notebook that most students and interns carry and allows users to add notes. This Fourth Edition is fully updated and includes an eight-page color insert with key and classic abnormal images.

Suitable for medical students, interns, and residents on wards and candidates reviewing for internal medicine board exams, this title provides key clinical information about common problems in internal medicine, cardiology, pulmonary medicine, gastroenterology, nephrology, hematology-oncology, infectious diseases, endocrinology, and rheumatology.