Comprehensive in its coverage of inpatient and outpatient care, and uniquely accessible in reinforcing only those diagnostic and treatment tools pertinent to practice, this book is the ultimate clinical companion.
Includes 5 online-only chapters: Anti-infective chemotherapeutic & antibiotic agents; Fundamentals of human genetics; Diagnostic testing & medical decision making; Infomation technology in patient care; Integrative medicine.
New to this edition: Update on the evaluation of chest pain; New algorithms for the treatment of heart failure and NSTEMI; New sections on pulmonary hypertension; treatment of pleural mesothelioma; diagnosis and treatment of subacute, postpartum, and silent thyroiditis and amiodarone- and iodine-induced thyrotoxicosis; and treatment of cryoglobulinemic vasculitis; New tables on preferred initial antiretroviral regimen and fixed dose antiretroviral combinations for HIV infection, and on medications for management of diabetes; updated tables on cancer chemotherapeutic and supportive care agents.