The latest addition to the Kumar & Clark family, this thoroughly updated new edition covers more than 200 cases presenting with acute symptoms in the hospital, everything from shingles and breathlessness to chest pain, acute coronary syndromes, poisoning, renal failure and stroke. The authors give clear and concise advice on immediate and further management, management of complications, differential diagnoses, history-taking, tips and pitfalls, alerts, investigations, and prioritization. publication history: First edition 2000 as Acute General Medicine Second edition 2006 as Acute Clinical Medicine Third edition 2013 as Kumar and Clark's Cases in Clinical Medicine Fourth edition 2021 as Kumar & Clark's Cases in Clinical Medicine