AHS Department of Medicine :: Calgary, Alberta :: Section of General Internal Medicine :: Consult Service

General Internal Medicine - Consult Service

Consultation Topics

• Atrial Fibrilation
• Congestive Heart Failure
  • Acute Heart Failure
  • Approach to Congestive Heart Failure
  • Cardiomyopathy
  • Heart Failure in Pregnancy and Minorities
  • Right Sided Heart Failure
  • www.hfcc.ca
• Delirium
  • Delirium Prediction Rule - Noncardiac Surgery
  • Delirium Pre-operative Prediction Rule - Cardiac Surgery
• Diabetes Mellitus
  • Clnical Practice Guidelines for Diabetes Management 2008
  • Clnical Practice Guidelines for Diabetes Management 2008 - Executive Summary
  • Diagnosis and Treatment of Diabetic Ketoacidosis
• Effective Consultations
• Electrolye Disturbances
  • Hyperkalemia
  • Hyponatremia
• Hypertension
  • Canadian Recommendations for the Management of Hypertension
  • www.hypertension.ca
• Obstetric Medicine
  • Hypertension in Pregnancy
  • Hypertensive Disorders of Pregnancy
• Transfusion Medicine
  • Liberal or Restrictive Transfusion in High-Risk Patients after Hip Surgery
• Venous Thromboembolism
  • Antithrombotic Therapy for VTE
  • CHEST Guidlines on VTE - 2008

Pre-operative Assessment

• Cardiac Risk Assessment
  • ACCF/AHA Focused Update on Perioperative Beta Blockade
  • Derivation and Prospective Validation - Prediction of Cardiac Risk of Major Noncardiac Surgery
  • Development and Validation of a Risk Calculator for Prediction of Cardiac Risk After Surgery
  • Perioperative beta-blockade for noncardiac surgery
  • POISE Trial
• Venous Thromboembolism
  • The Perioperative Management of Antithrombotic Therapy
  • Antithrombotic Therapy and Prevention of Thrombosis - Evidence-Based Clinical Practice Guidelines