Being on call as a pediatric resident or a pediatric
hematology-oncology fellow can cause great anxiety. In addition to the
relatively common patient with chemotherapy-related fever and
neutropenia, there is the anticipation of problems that a trainee may
have read about but not yet actually seen - the adolescent newly
presenting with a white blood cell count of 600,000/mm3, the 2 year
old spitting up blood with a platelet count of 2,000/ mm3 and a
hemoglobin of 5g/dL, the child who comes to the ER with difficulty
walking and is found to have a paraspinal mass on MRI. Most issues can
wait until the next day when more senior practitioners are around, but
some are true medical emergencies and just can’t. This manual is
intended as a one-stop solution for such frantic moments - a quick
resource to bridge the hours between the start of night call and
morning rounds that focuses on what needs to be done immediately to
avoid hurting a patient. It offers succinct guidelines and algorithms
to address the emergencies most likely to come up overnight. For those
tempted to turn to AI for quick solutions, there are some salutary
lessons from responses AI has given when asked about such emergencies.
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ISBN
9781040108918
Publisert
2024
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Vendor
CRC Press
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Product language
Engelsk
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Digital bok