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IMAI district clinician manual : hospital care for adolescents and adults : guidelines for the management of common illnesses with limited resources

Title

IMAI district clinician manual : hospital care for adolescents and adults : guidelines for the management of common illnesses with limited resources.

Format

Book

Published

Geneva, Switzerland : World Health Organization [2011] ©2011.

Description

2 volumes : illustrations ; 21 cm

Other contributors

Thatcher, Robert W., illustrator. Röhr-Rouendaal, Petra, illustrator. World Health Organization, publisher, copyright holder.

Portion of title

Hospital care for adolescents and adults: guidelines for the management of common illnesses with limited resources

Variant title

Integrated Management of Adolescent and Adult Illness district clinician manual

Notes

"Cover images: Robert Thatcher, Petra Rohr-Rouendaal; Production coordination: L'IV Com Sàrl, Villars-sous-Yens, Switzerland." --Verso of title page. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• v.1 : 1. Introduction, assumptions, and principles of this manual
• 2. Quick Check and emergency treatments
• 3. Approach to the severly ill patient (after the Quick Check)
• 4. Trauma: approach to the acutely injured patient
• 5. Approach to laboratory investigations
• 6. Infection prevention and control
• 7. Procedures
• 8. Medicines/therapies
• v.2 : 9. HIV diagnosis
• 10. Acute and subacute by sympton
• 11. Multisystem communicable diseases, renal and HIV-related cancers (in alphabetical order)
• 12. Chronic and long-term care
• 13. Chronic HIV care, antiretroviral therapy (ART), and prevention
• 14. PMTCT, HIV prevention, care and treatment during pregnancy, and family planning
• 15. Tuberculosis
• 16. Assessment and therapy for alcohol use disorders
• 17. Substance use
• 18. General principles of geriatric care
• 19. Prevention services for adolescents, adults and health workers
• 20. Palliative care: sympton management and end-of-life care
• 21. Patient monitoring and reporting including reporting outbreaks and pharmacovigilance.

Subject headings

Community health services--Standards. Medical care--Standards. Disease management.

Medical subjects

Community Health Services--standards. Health Resources--supply & demand. Delivery of Health Care--standards. Disease Management. Adolescent. Adult.

ISBN

9789241548311 (package) 9241548312 (package) 9789241548281 (vol.1) 9241548282 (vol.1) 9789241548290 (vol.2)

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