Acute Medicine

<p><i>Lecture Notes</i> discusses the principles of the initial assessment, investigation, diagnosis, and management of adult patients with everyday Acute Internal Medicine (AIM) presentations and conditions. This textbook is wide in scope and covers topics ranging from initial identification of acute medical illness, through to effective discharge planning. <p><i>Lecture Notes</i> contains the latest developments on the generic professional and specialty specific capabilities needed to manage patients presenting with a wide range of medical symptoms and conditions covered in the UK AIM curriculum (2022). <p>In <i>Lecture Notes</i>, readers can expect to find detailed information on: <ul><li>Generic skills relevant to AIM, such as clinical reasoning, safe prescribing, point of care ultrasound (POCUS), resuscitation, and managing the acute medical take</li><li>AIM across the various acute care settings ¿ home (telemedicine, virtual wards, Hospital at Home), ambulatory (same day emergenc