Description

<p style="margin-bottom: 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">This new book by Dr O’Kane is a very useful and interesting book directed towards Medical registrars but also with many positive features for anyone from Medical Student to Consultants… [It] works through groups of emergencies according to speciality and organ grouping. This is helpful as it enables the reader to link the different differentials together well. &nbsp;It also tries to signpost all the different conditions in relation to the Acute Medicine and General Internal Medicine curriculums.</p><p style="margin-bottom: 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">There is also an excellent section on fluid prescription, outlining what each fluid option contains along with potential fluid prescriptions in relation to the daily needs of the human body. Each clinical problem is presented in a clear and logical format, beginning with the things to ask or think about when receiving a referral – much as junior doctors would do in a real clinical situation.&nbsp;</p><p style="margin-bottom: 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">The book also includes an excellent ‘general management’ section, which covers important aspects of the assessment of mental capacity and considerations to make when discharging a patient – things which are often poorly taught in other settings. All of the clinical procedures are described in some level of detail – not enough to learn to do the procedure but enough to signpost as well as getting the reader to think about why it is needed and any associated risks.</p>