Lange Instant Access: Acid-Base, Fluids, and Electrolytes

Essential Evidence-Based Data for Common Clinical Encounters

"This is very useful for providers who desire a fast review of fluid, electrolyte, and acid-base disorders without asking for in-depth information. Background information about pathophysiology and references are not included, but are not needed. This makes the book unique and quite different from other available resources on the topic. 3 Stars."—Doody's Review Service

Make sense of acid-base and electrolytes with this compact, on-the-go guide—filled with clinical facts, figures, and data.

In this ultra-convenient resource, the authors have distilled down the most relevant insights from their acclaimed text Nephrology in 30 Days, giving you a complete, yet concise overview of acid-based and electrolytes—supported by evidence-based findings.

You'll find at-a-glance tables and a bulleted format that puts key diagnostic and clinical information right at your fingertips. This one-stop guide gets you up to speed on the major issues in acid-base and electrolyte disturbances, from metabolic acidosis to serum calcium disorders. It's the perfect clinical companion to more in-depth acid-base texts—one that goes beyond educational principles to focus on the real world of clinical medicine and patient management.

• The perfect portable brain for the wards
• Vital facts and figures everyone forgets to remember
• Presented in easy-access tables

Doody Review Services

Reviewer:Stefan G Kiessling, MD(University of Kentucky College of Medicine)
Description:This book, part of the Lange Instant Access series, provides a comprehensive and easily accessible guide for clinicians dealing with acid-base, fluid, and electrolyte problem-solving on a daily basis. Edited by experts in the field, this concise review of the facts in physiology and pathophysiology is presented in bullet format and tables useful as a quick reference for individuals familiar with the topics or for healthcare professionals trying to acquire a basic understanding without getting overwhelmed with information.
Purpose:The purpose is to provide a reference and easy to understand framework for the evaluation of commonly seen acid-base, fluid, and electrolyte abnormalities without going into as much detail as in medical textbooks. The book meets, and often exceeds, the objectives by providing a comprehensive tool that focuses on the core messages needed to properly assess patients in clinical practice.
Audience:The target audience includes medical providers at all levels (from student to senior faculty) taking care of patients with simple or complex disorders of acid-base, fluids, and electrolytes or anyone interested in an easy to access review of the (patho)physiology of the electrolyte homeostasis. It also appears to be a very useful resource for trainees in various subspecialties including intensive care medicine and nephrology. The authors are well known and published experts in the field.
Features:The book covers all common disorders of electrolyte, acid-base, and fluid homeostasis in a well organized fashion. Each chapter starts with a well structured outline allowing the readers to quickly find what they are looking for. Information is presented in a simple bullet (one sentence) format making it easy to review and digest. Additional information can be readily found in available textbooks if so desired.
Assessment:This is very useful for providers who desire a fast review of fluid, electrolyte, and acid-base disorders without asking for in-depth information. Background information about pathophysiology and references are not included, but are not needed. This makes the book unique and quite different from other available resources on the topic such as Halperin and Goldstein, Fluid, Electrolyte and Acid-Base Physiology: A Problem-Based Approach, 3rd edition (Elsevier, 1998) and Rose and Post, Clinical Physiology of Acid-Base Disorders, 5th edition (McGraw-Hill, 2000).

Robert F. Reilly, Jr., MD, holds the Frederick L. Coe Professorship in Nephrolithiasis Research in Mineral Metabolism and is Chief in the Section of Nephrology in the Veterans Affairs North Texas Health Care System; and Professor of Medicine in the Department of Medicine at the Charles and Jane Pak Center for Mineral Metabolism and Clinical Research, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas.

Mark A. Perazella, MD, FACP, is Associate Professor of Medicine, Director of the Renal Fellowship Program, and Director of Acute Dialysis Services in the Section of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine.