Principles and Protocols

Part 1 Introduction: approach to the diagnosis and management of on-call problems; documentation of on-call problems; assessment and management of volume status; AIDS and the house officer. Part 2 Patient related problems - the common calls: abdominal pain; chest pain; combativeness - the out-of-control patient; confusion/decreased level of consciousness; decreased urine output; diarrhoea; fall-out-of-bed; fever; gastrointestinal bleeding; headache; heart rate and rhythm disorders; high blood pressure; hypnotics, laxatives, analgesics and antipyretics; hypotension and shock; leg pain; lines, tubes and drains; polyuria - frequency-inconteinence; pronoucing death; seizures; shortness of breath; skin rashes and urticaria; skyncope; transfusion reactions. Part 3 Laboratory-related problems - the common calls: acid-base disorders; anaemia; calcium disorders; coagulation disorders; glucose disorders; sodium disorders. Part 4 Appendix. Part 5 On call formulary - commonly prescribed medications. Part 7 Index.