Pocket Guide to Internship 2/e

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