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	Albert: Clinical Critical Care Medicine, 1st ed. 2006, Mosby DESCRIPTION: Comprehensive and clinically oriented, this new text helps you provide the highest standard of care for patients in the ICU—in one full-color volume. An international cast of experts offers in-depth, authoritative guidance on clinical problems from a multitude of perspectives.
	Kruse: Saunders Manual of Critical Care, 1st ed. 2002, Saunders DESCRIPTION: This new resource provides a concise review of common as well as infrequently encountered diseases, syndromes, and disturbances of homeostasis in adult ICU patients. With more than 230 concise chapters and contributions from over 75 internationally recognized experts, readers will have complete diagnostic and management strategies for each disorder at their fingertips. An outline format, standardized headings, boxes highlighting key points, tables, and illustrations make reference quick and easy. And, illustrated, step-by-step descriptions detail the how-to and when-to for 25 diagnostic and therapeutic procedures.
	McDonough & Larson: Manual of Evidence-Based Admitting Orders and Therapeutics, 5th ed. 2006 Elsevier DESCRIPTION: Here's all the guidance you need to write clear, concise, safe, and effective medical orders. Whether you've had training in order writing or not, and whether you use an electronic order system or not, this handy guide offers you strategies, templates, decision-making guidelines, and a systematic, evidence-based approach to reinforce what you know...simplify and improve communication with your colleagues...and thus reduce confusion, unnecessary steps, and costly mistakes. This text includes sample admitting orders for almost 100 illnesses and conditions, offers valuable guidelines for revising original orders, and provides special procedures for handling verbal orders given in fast-paced, intense situations.
	Merli & Weitz: Medical Management of the Surgical Patient, 3rd ed. 2008 Saunders, An Imprint of Elsevier DESCRIPTION: Each chapter in this practical handbook focuses on a particular area of clinical concern, with concise presentations of pathophysiology, assessment and management options, the latest drug treatment information, and essential information on risk stratification and quality improvement. The result is an invaluable source on the management of surgical patients with co-existing medical problems that may be affected by surgery, as well as how to approach medical complications that may occur during or following surgical procedures.
	Steinberg: Evidence-Based Medical Consultation, 1st. ed. 2007 Saunders, An Imprint of Elsevier DESCRIPTION: Medical consultation is an integral part of the job description for many internal medicine specialists who practice in an inpatient setting. Each chapter provides evidence-based answers to common medical consultation questions, giving you the practical guidance you need to successfully manage hospitalized patients. A practical organization expedites access to the most relevant health concerns for every type of hospitalized patient, and a thorough and systematic search of current literature ensures that each clinical recommendation is based on the best available evidence.
	Sun: The Most Common Inpatient Problems in Internal Medicine: Ward Survival, 1st ed. 2007, Saunders DESCRIPTION: Here's an extremely handy pocket reference to assist the student, resident, house officer, and busy hospitalist address issues related to the 20 most common disorders seen in the inpatient setting. This brief, small-sized handbook offers you evidence-based information presented in an easy to reference, consistently presented outline and table format. Problem based for quick solutions in diagnosis and therapy in the limited timeframe typical of seeing patients on the wards.
	Williams: Comprehensive Hospital Medicine, 1st ed. 2007 Saunders, An Imprint of Elsevier DESCRIPTION: In the exciting and growing field of hospital medicine, you're as concerned with the efficient management of your unit as you are the effective care of your patients. This title is your ideal new clinical reference on both counts. Nationally recognized experts provide state-of-the-art, evidence-based, hospital-focused guidelines on clinical assessment, diagnosis, prognosis, treatment, and discharge/follow-up planning to help you to effectively manage all of the key disorders in every body system. Expert advice on systems issues explores how to establish and enhance a hospitalist program, provide leadership, manage patient transitions of care, establish a teamwork model with hospital staff, promote patient safety and staff performance improvement, standardize care, and navigate legal and ethical concerns.
	Zaoutis & Chiang: Comprehensive Pediatric Hospital Medicine, 1st ed. 2007, Elsevier DESCRIPTION: This comprehensive new reference not only brings you the most current, evidence-based approaches to hospital-based pediatric care, but also covers issues related to staffing a unit, financial, legal and ethical topics, and how a hospitalist program communicates and relates to its referring providers and consulting staff. With this text, you'll make clinical decisions efficiently thanks to numerous diagnostic and therapeutic algorithms. A vital addition to the shelf of anyone who cares for pediatric patients in the hospital.