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Marshall & Ruedy’s On Call, 4th Edition

Principles & Protocols
Authors :
Anthony F. T. Brown & Mike Cadogan & Antonio (Tony) Celenza & Viet Tran
Date of Publication: 09/2025
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Marshall and Ruedy's On Call: Principles & Protocols, Australasian and UK 4th edition offers a carefully structured, risk-based approach to the initial assessment, investigation, differential diagnosis and short-term management of a wide variety ...view more

Marshall and Ruedy's On Call: Principles & Protocols, Australasian and UK 4th edition offers a carefully structured, risk-based approach to the initial assessment, investigation, differential diagnosis and short-term management of a wide variety of on-call ward problems.


This fourth edition has been completely revised, with the addition of a new author, new chapters and updated content based on the latest evidence-based guidelines. The layout is in a succinct, easy-to-read format that outlines a practical, fast, efficient and effective bedside approach to clinical problem-solving on call. Clinical reasoning has never been made so explicit and exciting!

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Marshall and Ruedy's On Call: Principles & Protocols, Australasian and UK 4th edition offers a carefully structured, risk-based approach to the initial assessment, investigation, differential diagnosis and short-term management of a wide variety of on-call ward problems.


This fourth edition has been completely revised, with the addition of a new author, new chapters and updated content based on the latest evidence-based guidelines. The layout is in a succinct, easy-to-read format that outlines a practical, fast, efficient and effective bedside approach to clinical problem-solving on call. Clinical reasoning has never been made so explicit and exciting!


Key Features
  • General principles: Overview of the professional, organisational, ethical and social traits required of the junior doctor on call
  • Emergency calls: Risk-stratified approach to life-threatening airway, breathing, circulation, neurological disability and environment factors (ABCDE)
  • Common calls: Explicit detail on how to deal with every call from urgent to non-life threatening, based on a standardised, reproducible clinical reasoning approach
  • Investigations: How to interpret an ECG, common imaging, acid base, electrolyte and haematological tests when on call
  • Practical procedures: How to perform a large array of practical procedures that may be needed when on call
  • Formulary: Quick reference for the indications, actions, adverse effects, cautions, doses and routes of administration of the vast array of drugs encountered in ward patients
  • Laboratory values: Normal values for all the common tests


This edition includes the full eBook on eBooks+ with additional reading material, high-quality images, procedural videos and references available on https://litfl.com.


Author Information
By Anthony F. T. Brown, AM, FRCP, FRCS (Ed), FACEM, FRCEM, Professor of Emergency Medicine, Mayne Academy of Critical Care, Faculty of Medicine MD Program, University of Queensland, Brisbane; Senior Staff Specialist (Pre-Eminent Status), Emergency and Trauma Centre, Royal Brisbane and Women’ s Hospital, Brisbane, Australia; Mike Cadogan, MA(Oxon), MBChB, FACEM, FFSEM, Staff Specialist in Emergency Medicine, Department of Emergency Medicine, Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, Perth; Co-founder and Chief Medical Officer of LITFL.com, Australia; Antonio (Tony) Celenza, MBBS, MClinEd, FACEM, Professor of Emergency, University of Western Australia, Perth; Staff Specialist, Department of Emergency Medicine, Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, Perth, Australia; Viet Tran, BMedSci, MBBS, FACEM, Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine, Tasmanian School of Medicine, University of Tasmania; Director, Tasmanian Emergency Medicine Research Institute, Department of Health, Tasmania and Staff Specialist, Department of Emergency Medicine, Royal Hobart Hospital, Tasmania, Australia