The Tarascon Clinical Review Series: Internal Medicine is an evidence-based, point-of-care reference for the busy medical student or resident physician to use on your internal medicine rotation or externship. This handy reference guide contains the most important aspects of epidemiology, pathophysiology, and clinical presentation in addition to all of the key aspects of patient management and documentation templates. Packed with tables and algorithms to quickly direct the busy student or resident to an evidence-based approach to managing all medical problems that you may encounter in the hospital, including, but not limited to: * Comprehensive tables on Empiric antibiotics for common infections * Antimicrobial coverage by class * Gram stain interpretation * Toxicology * Chest and abdominal x-ray interpretation * ECG interpretation * Corticosteroid equivalency table * Therapeutic drug levels table * Opioid equivalency table * Interpretation of urinalysis and urine sediment Tarascon Clinical Review Series: Internal Medicine has all the pertinent information found within a comprehensive internal medicine textbook consolidated into an easily navigable reference pocketbook. Important Notice: The digital edition of this book is missing some of the images or content found in the physical edition

The Tarascon Internal Medicine & Critical Care Pocketbook, Fourth Edition is designed as the ultimate portable reference for the busy Internal Medicine or ICU practitioner. This concise, organized pocket guide is packed with essential lists, figures, tables and algorithms providing instant reminders of hard-to-remember yet vitally important clinical information. An extensive pharmacology section gives fingertip access to critical drug prescribing information. The newly revised 4th edition contains dozens of new topics and drug listings as well as timely updates for most of the content and references. The Tarascon Internal Medicine & Critical Care Pocketbook, Fourth Edition is meticulously referenced and provides expert commentary on current academic controversies within the field. You will wonder how you ever practiced medicine without it!

The Tarascon Hospital Medicine Pocketbook is an evidence-based, point-of-care compact reference book for the busy clinician to use on the hospital wards or in the ICU. This quick reference provides inpatient clinicians with critical information about the evaluation and management of every common medical disorder encountered in the hospital, including the most common conditions encountered in the ICU. This user-friendly pocketbook is packed with tables and algorithms intended to quickly direct the busy clinician to an evidence-based approach to manage any common medical condition. The Tarascon Hospital Medicine Pocketbook is an essential guide for all practicing hospitalists, medical students, resident physicians and midlevel providers who work in the hospital setting. Important Notice: The digital edition of this book is missing some of the images or content found in the physical edition.

Tarascon Medical Procedures Pocketbook is an evidence-based, point of care reference guide to common ambulatory care and hospital procedures. This pocket reference is the perfect resource for the indications, contraindications, necessary equipment, step-by-step technique, fluid analysis, complications and coding for the 45 most commonly performed medical procedures. Tarascon Medical Procedures Pocketbook is packed with over 200 tables and figures that depict the proper technique used for performing each procedure. Tarascon Medical Procedures Pocketbook is an essential medical reference for clinicians, medical students, residents and midlevel providers who perform medical procedures in outpatient or inpatient settings. Click here to view the corrected image 7-3 Running Stitch.

Continuing the tradition of excellence in the Tarascon Pocketbook series, the Tarascon ECG Pocketbook is an evidence-based reference guide containing an extensive collection of potential ECG findings and their significance. Beginning with principles of electrocardiography, this must-have portable reference guide continues with an algorithm for ECG reading as well as a discussion of multiple potential findings, providing numerous examples and diagrams. The Tarascon ECG Pocketbook is an essential, quick-reference tool that is accessible to novice and experienced ECG readers alike, including medical students, clinicians, nurses, allied health professionals, and other ECG interpreters. Coming soon to iPhone, iPad, Android, and BlackBerry.

Tarascon Palliative Medicine Pocketbook is the only shirt pocket-sized, quick reference for guiding those difficult conversations with patients and family members who require palliative and hospice care. Practitioners will find helpful ideas as well as guidance on managing difficult to control symptoms whether practicing in a busy clinic, making home visits or managing the hospitalized patient. Containing communication skill techniques, prognostication tools, symptom management options and ethical issues, this one of a kind, portable guide is an ideal tool for any member of the Palliative Medicine team, including: physicians, nurses, social workers, chaplains, pharmacists and more.

The Tarascon General Surgery Pocketbook is a concise, organized, portable reference guide containing appropriately referenced basic science and clinical useful for both clinical preoperative and postoperative management and board review. Chapters are divided by anatomic and physiologic topics, including a section for managing surgical ward problems while on call and step-by-step outlines of the most common general and vascular surgery operations and exposures. Easy-to-use and convenient, the Tarascon General Surgery Pocketbook is the ideal resource for general surgeons and senior surgery residents.

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The Tarascon Sports Medicine Pocketbook brings non-surgical primary care physicians, athletic trainers, and physical therapists the most up-to-date information on the topic of sports medicine so that they may provide the best medical treatment possible for the active individual. Sports medicine is more than just the management of muskuloskeletal injuries; it is primary care medicine for the active individual and not only includes the specialties of family medicine, pediatrics, internal medicine, physical medicine and rehabilitation and emergency medicine, but also cardiology, nutrition, psychology, pharmacology, neurology, and others. Topics include common muskuloskeletal injuries, infectious disease, overtraining, pain management, an athletics drug guide, and exercise physiology.

Completed revised and updated for 2011, the Tarascon Pediatric Outpatient Pocketbook, Second Edition is the essential quick clinical reference for the busy outpatient pediatrician, family physician, or student/resident on a pediatric clinic rotation. This pocket guide includes the latest and most authoritative clinical practice guidelines and is packed with easy-to-understand algorithms, tables, charts, and lists. Covering newborns through adolescents, the meticulously referenced Tarascon Pediatric Outpatient Pocketbook, Second Edition puts the most important but hardest-to-remember facts, treatment options, prognoses and other critical information at your fingertips. Important Notice: The digital edition of this book is missing some of the images or content found in the physical edition.