The Washington Manual of Medical Therapeutics has been extensively referred in the medical area
for more than six decades now. This new edition has a reorganized format that
helps for a faster paced reference than before. The table of contents is
improved, and a whole new chapter on Toxicology will help the readers to attend
effectually to emergencies on these lines. And the book has decision support
algorithms which will exclusively help medical students and faculty, along with
health care professionals. The manual is also used by the house staff. This
34th edition is more comprehensive, portable and has a brief discussion about
pathophysiology as well. Practical formats and also evidence based approach to
existing therapies is another highlight of this edition. Other major topics
that are covered in the book are Nutrition Support, Patient Care in Internal
Medicine, Vascular Heart Disease, Critical Care, Renal Diseases, Obstructive
Lung Disease, Ischemic Heart Disease, Pulmonary Diseases, Treatment of
Infectious Diseases, HIV and AIDS, Organ Transplant Medicine, Heart Failure and
Cardiomyopathy.
