Marshal & Ruedy's - On Call Principles & Protocols

On Call Principles & Protocols provides a carefully structured, risk-based approach to the initial assessment, investigation, differential diagnosis and short-term management of ward problems on-call.

Key Features

• General principles: Overview of the knowledge and professional skills required to deal with undifferentiated on-call problems
• Emergency calls: Standardised approach to life-threatening, time-critical problems involving airway, breathing, circulation, neurological disability, and environment factors (ABCDE)
• Common calls: How to deal with urgent ward calls based on an acute change in symptoms or signs
• Investigations: Interpretation of bedside, laboratory, and radiological tests
• Practical procedures: Step-by-step guide to every relevant ward procedure
• Formulary: Quick reference for the indications, actions, adverse effects, cautions, doses, and routes of administration of the vast array of drugs encountered in ward patients
• Laboratory values: Normal values for all the common tests