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LANGE Instant Access Hospital Admissions: Essential Evidence-Based Orders for Common Clinical Conditions

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This text is useful for 3rd and 4th more medical students who are beginning to write admission H&Ps, as well as admission orders. I also could see this being useful for interns. The book starts with a section called "Guide Tables," which lists, in table format, commonly used information such as DVT prop. initial vent settings, abx spectrum, and more. The tables are made to be read quickly and are ordered well. The main text of the book is divided into specialty areas. For example, cards, endo, infxn disease and so on. Within each section, there are common admission orders. They follow the standard format. The orders also include a section called "management" which details initial treatment, as well as a section called "diagnosis," which provides more information on rule outs and pearls regarding the diagnosis. Overall, I found the orders to be accurate and succinct. Again, this text is for quick reference, so do not expect explanations, as they are not given. There is a bonus section on toxicology which I think is useful and usually left out of reference texts. In addition to the standard sections, there are sections based on "symptoms" (i.e., chest pain, cough); and a section on symptom management. I think the symptom management section is perfect for the intern who is beginning to memorize the commonly used symptomatic drugs. Overall, I think this is a perfect reference for the medical student who is beginning to write orders and even for a new intern. In comparison to "Medicine," another commonly used order book, this Instant Access book is more thorough, the orders are more reasonable (I have found many problems with the orders in the "Medicine" book. I would recommend this book without reservation.

This is great resource... esp if you are alone doing admissions and don't want to ask a million questions!

The book is laid out in standard admission's format for each topic. As a result, the majority of the book is that same basic information over and over and over again. With each "admission" there is usually one or two things you might like to consider, which gives the book value, but unless you are still at the stage where you need to copy your admission orders straight from a book, you won't find this book of much value.

This book has been a lifesaver for writing admission orders. Could not imagine working without it!

This book is supposed to come with a free PDA download, and has an access code for that.
Code from my book was already used, so I called AMAZON. The guy was nice and he send me another copy of the book. BUT the code from new book is also been used before. So here i am without a PDA download, which was the basic reason for me to buy this book.
It would have been only extra $2 to buy it from Mcgrw hill website.