Indexed by what you hear
Eight of the twenty calls, written out in full and free to read. Each one starts
where the call starts: with the sentence, not the diagnosis.
- Potassium is 6.8The lab calls with a potassium of 6.8. What to ask, what kills, what to start before the ECG, and when to wake someone senior.
- Sodium came back 118A sodium of 118 at 3 a.m. How fast is too fast, what the correction rate actually means, and the questions that change the answer.
- BP is 80 over 50Blood pressure 80/50 and the patient says he feels fine. Naming the dominant mechanism before you give fluid.
- INR is 7.4An INR of 7.4, and its harder cousin, bleeding on a DOAC. What to give, what to hold, and what to check first.
- Glucose is 42A glucose of 42 mg/dL (2.3 mmol/L) overnight. Treating it is the easy part — the question is why it happened and whether it will happen again.
- There's melena in the bedMelena on the night shift. What to ask the nurse, what to start, and the threshold that means this stops being your problem alone.
- “Can I give him something to sleep?”The most dangerous request of the night, because it sounds like the most routine one. What to ask before you answer.
- “He's had a fall”A fall on the ward overnight. What was it before it was a fall, what to examine, and what the anticoagulant changes.
The other twelve — and forty more
Twelve more calls in full, an index of sixty, and the chapter that teaches
you to build the rest yourself. One searchable file you can open when the
ward wifi is down.
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