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1: Patient Care in Internal Medicine
Mark Thoelke and Christopher J. Gutjahr

2: Nutrition Support
Dominic Reeds

3: Preventative Cardiology and Ischemic Heart Disease
Angela L. Brown, Anne Goldberg, Kory Lavine, Andrew Kates, and Neville Mistry

4: Heart Failure, Cardiomyopathy and Valvular Heart Disease
Brian R. Lindman, Stacy A. Mandras, Benico Barzilai, Susan M. Joseph, and Gregory A. Ewald

5: Cardiac Arrhythmias
Shivak Sharma, Daniel H. Cooper, and Mitchell N. Faddis

6: Critical Care
Marin H. Kollef, Scott T. Micek, and Jen Alexander-Brett

7: Pulmonary Diseases
Lee Demertzis, Tonya Russell, Robert M. Senior, Mario Castro, Luke Carlstrom, Murali Chakinala, Meena Murugappan, Alexander Chen, Ara Chrissian, Devin Sherman, Raksha Jain, and Daniel B. Rosenbluth

8: Allergy and Immunology
Shirley Joo, Ritu Gupta, and Andrew Kau

9: Fluid and Electrolyte Management
Bala Sankarpandian and Steven Cheng

10: Renal Diseases
Seth Goldberg and Daniel Coyne

11: Treatment of Infectious Diseases
José E. Hagan, Hillary M. Babcock, and Nigar Kirmani

12: Antimicrobials
David J. Ritchie and Bernard C. Camins

13: Human Immunodeficiency Virus and Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome
Diana Nurutdinova and Turner Overton

14: Solid Organ Transplant Medicine
Brent W. Miller

15: Gastrointestinal Diseases
C. Prakash Gyawali and Ahmad Manasra

16: Liver Diseases
Mauricio Lisker-Melman and Anil B. Seetharam

17: Disorders of Hemostasis and Thrombosis
Roger Yusen, Charles Eby, and Brian F. Gage

18: Anemia and Transfusion Therapy
Reshma Rangwala and Morey Blinder

19: Medical Management of Malignant Disease
Boone Goodgame, Daniel Morgensztern, and Ramaswamy Govindan

20: Diabetes Mellitus and Related Disorders
Janet McGill

21: Endocrine Diseases
William E. Clutter

22: Arthritis and Rheumatologic Diseases
Hector Molina, Christopher Phillips, and Vladimir Despotovic

23: Neurologic Disorders
Victoria Sharma and Beau Ances

24: Medical Emergencies
S. Eliza Halcomb, Stephan Brenner, and Michael Mullins

Appendix A: Immunizations and Post-Exposure Therapies

Appendix B: Infection Control and Isolation Recommendations

Appendix C: Advanced Cardiac Life Support Algorithms