Written by residents, fellows, and attendings, the mandate for Pocket Medicine was to provide, in a concise a manner as possible, the key information a clinician needs for the initial approach to and management of the most common inpatient medical problems.
With this 4th edition come several major improvements including: a thorough updating of every topic; the addition of several new topics (including acute aortic syndromes, sepsis, obstructive sleep apnea, hepatic vascular disease, optimal use of diuretics, viral respiratory infertions, infections in susceptible hosts, intensive glycemic control, approach to the patient with joint pain, and alcohol withdrawal); incorporation of references to the most recent reviews and important studies published through the middle of 2010; and the addition of high-resolution chest radiographs, chest and abdominal CTs, and echocardiograms, and photomicrographs of peripheral blood smears and urinalyses.