Quick Reference book/app for the floor (Gen Surg PGY1)

[Zarika]

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Hi all. This question has been asked before several times and I have looked at some of the old threads.
Everyone says to wait and use the textbook your program recommends for general surgery PGY1 year, but what is a good quick reference book (or app) for day to day things?

I'm asking about things that would be especially nice to double check in July - ie, learned them in med school but would be nice to verify since I'll be writing a real order for a real patient. (Electrolyte replacement, types of stool softeners, pain medication dosages and order of strengths, ect)

In older threads I've seen recommendations for "Surgical intern survival guide" but an amazon search only comes up with a book from 1993. Is this what people are referring to?

http://www.amazon.com/Surgical-Intern-Pocket-Survival-SURVIVAL/dp/0963406353/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1401047586&sr=1-1&keywords=The Surgical Intern Pocket Survival Guide

Thanks so much.

 

[Winged Scapula]

Hi all. This question has been asked before several times and I have looked at some of the old threads.
Everyone says to wait and use the textbook your program recommends for general surgery PGY1 year, but what is a good quick reference book (or app) for day to day things?

I'm asking about things that would be especially nice to double check in July - ie, learned them in med school but would be nice to verify since I'll be writing a real order for a real patient. (Electrolyte replacement, types of stool softeners, pain medication dosages and order of strengths, ect)

In older threads I've seen recommendations for "Surgical intern survival guide" but an amazon search only comes up with a book from 1993. Is this what people are referring to?

http://www.amazon.com/Surgical-Intern-Pocket-Survival-SURVIVAL/dp/0963406353/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1401047586&sr=1-1&keywords=The Surgical Intern Pocket Survival Guide

Thanks so much.

Ooohhhh…blast from the past! Yes thats it. Of course I'd venture that a lot in the book has changed. I wonder if I still have mine around here?

My program had an in-house specific one and yours may well.

But for something more thorough, I believe the Washington Manual would do the trick: http://www.amazon.com/Washington-Manual-Internship-Survival-Edition/dp/1451143249

 

[Dr.LeoSpaceman]

As southernIM says, there are a couple that are essentially interchangeable. I do like the Mont Reid Handbook smartphone version, though--elimates having to carry another thing around in the pocked.

 

[Zarika]

Thanks everyone!

 

[597622]

Washington Manual

Surgery On-Call

Pocket Surgery

Any of them are equally adequate

When you say Washington Manual, do you mean Washington Manual of surgery (900 pages, pub. 2011) or Washington Manual Surgery Survival Guide (370 pages, pub 2003)? It seems as though these two texts are for two very different purposes based on their length.
What I am looking for is what the OP asked, something for quick floor/on-call reference when you don't know what to do. I bought Pocket surgery and found it very inadequate. Difficult to look anything up, barely any mention of dosing or route of admin for meds, almost nothing on fluid therapy. Would you recommend the Washington Manual of Surgery as an alternative? Or perhaps Surgery On-Call?
Is it worth getting the 2015 Sanford guide for a surgical intern?
For full text we are required to read Sabiston's. Not sure if getting Zollinger's Atlas as an intern is worthwhile?
I bought Fiser's for ABSITE, MTB3 for Step 3 next spring, and need something for fast reference/floor as previously mentioned, in addition to uptodate and epocrates. Anything else you'd recommend that I might have overlooked? It might seem like overkill to do all this now but I want to just buy whatever I need now instead of worrying about it during intern year. Thanks.