Updates

We intend to use this page to provide updates to many of your favourite handbooks. These updates and corrections will be regularly incorporated into reprints and new electronic versions. The types of update we intend to provide will include:

• Errata
• New guidelines or results of trials
• Important omissions

Oxford Handbook of Cardiology (ISBN 9780198525974)
Oxford Handbook of Clinical Surgery 3rd edition (ISBN 9780198568254)
Oxford Handbook of General Practice 2nd edition (ISBN 9780198565819)
Oxford Handbook of Medical Sciences (ISBN 9780198528296)
Oxford Handbook of Clinical Examination and Practical Skills (ISBN 9780198568384)
Oxford Handbook of Acute Medicine, 2nd edition (ISBN 0198520727)
Oxford Handbook of Clinical Medicine, 7th edition (ISBN 9780198568377)
Oxford Handbook of Clinical Medicine, 6th edition (ISBN 9780198525585)
Oxford Handbook of Clinical Medicine, 5th edition (ISBN 9780192629883)

Oxford Handbook of Cardiology (ISBN 9780198525974)

Errata

Pages 626

The Sentence on page 626 should read: Systolic BP <80 mmHg give a slow IV bolus of epinephrine (2-5 ml of 1 in 10,000 solution Min-I-Jet and repeated if necessary).
not
Systolic BP <80 mmHg give a slow IV bolus of epinephrine (2-5 ml of 1 in 1000 solution Min-I-Jet and repeated if necessary).

Oxford Handbook of Clinical Surgery 3rd edition (ISBN 9780198568254)

Errata

Pages xxiii and xxiv
Two contributors below were missed from the contributor list:

Gregor Walker, Specialist Registrar, Department of Surgical Paediatrics, Royal Hospital for Sick Children, Yorkhill, Glasgow, UK

Peter Raine, Consultant Paediatric Surgeon, Department of Surgical Paediatrics, Royal Hospital for Sick Children, Yorkhill, Glasgow, UK

Oxford Handbook of General Practice 2nd edition (ISBN 9780198565819)

Errata

Pages 1064 and 1065
Within figures 29.16 and 29.16, the dosages for salbutamol and terbutaline should be 2.5 mg and 5 mg respectively, not 5 mg and 10 mg.

Page 1064 Acute Asthma in Children
Under Life-threatening asthma, hydrocortisone dose should be IV hydrocortisone 100mg not IV hydrocortisone 10mg.

Page 1065 Acute Asthma in Children
Under Life-threatening asthma, hydrocortisone dose should be IV hydrocortisone 50mg not IV hydrocortisone 10mg.

Oxford Handbook of Medical Sciences (ISBN 9780198528296)

Errata

Page 34
Under 'Starch' it should say amylose instead of amylase

Page 94
In what is metabolism second bullet point should start anabolism not metabolism

Page 102
PDH kinase is INactivated by PDH substrates

Page 118
It should read:
purines - guanine and ADENINE
pyramidines - cytosine and THYMINE

Page 192
Initiation. page refers to DNA polymerase II. It is RNA polymerase II that catalyses mRNA formation.

Page 220
Corrected equations should read as follows:

Ex  = -

RT ln [X]o ZxF   [X]i

and

Ex  =

-61.5 log10 [X]i [X]o

Page 375
The text up to Surfactant is secreted by Type II alveolar cells from about 30 weeks gestation ... should be replaced with the following:

A saline-filled lung is readily inflated, whereas surface tension at one with an air-water interface shows reduced compliance. Surfactant reduces surface tension compared to water and renders the lung more compliant. On alveolar inflation, as the surface area of the surfactant film increases, surface tension is increased, thereby preventing smaller alveoli from emptying into larger ones. Finally, the static surface tension of a film of surfactant is greater when measured during expansion than during contraction (this accounts for the observed hysteresis).

Page 442
For the vascular resistance equation it should be:
vascular resistance is proportional to length x fluid viscosity (radius)4
i.e. radius should be to the power of 4.

Page 480
The last equation, should read:
ie: volume cleared = GFR = ([X]urine.V) / [X]plasma
(that is [X]urine should multiply by V, not divide as appears in the book).

Page 480
Morning after pill contains a high concentration of progesterone not estrogen

Oxford Handbook of Clinical Examination and Practical Skills (ISBN 9780198568384)

Errata

Page 340
Last paragraph under subheading Sensory inattentioin third bullet point:
The sentence should read: in a right sided parietal lesion, the patient will feel both left and right sides, but when both sides are touched, they will only be able to feel the stimulus on the RIGHT side." not ...they will only be able to feel the stimulus on the left side.

Oxford Handbook of Acute Medicine, 2nd edition (ISBN 0198520727)

Errata

Page 56
Under the heading 'Nitrates', (50mg in 50ml nitrate saline at 1-10ml/h) should read (50mg in 50ml normal saline at 1-10ml/h)

Page 56
Under the heading 'β-blockers', (e.g. atenolol 25-1000mg od) should read (e.g. atenolol 25-100mg od)

Oxford Handbook of Clinical Medicine, 7th edition (ISBN 0198525583)

Errata

Page 747, bullet 12 - Checking the position of a nasogastric tube
The Patient Safety Agency (NHS) asserts that pH paper (not litmus paper) be used for checking pH of the gastric aspirate, and that that injecting air and listing for bubbling is unreliable and should not be used. See http://www.npsa.nhs.uk/site/media/documents/

Oxford Handbook of Clinical Medicine, 6th edition (ISBN 0198525583)

Omission

Page 479 - PANCREAS Mnemonic for acute pancreatitis
Oxford University Press would like to acknowledge Mr Etienne M. Moore MA FRCS (Gen. Surg.) for kindly letting us reproduce his PANCREAS mnemonic (Moore EM. A useful mnemonic for severity stratification in acute pancreatitis. Ann R Coll Surg Engl 2000;82:16-17)

Errata

Page 45, The cardiac cycle
The axis showing pressure should be labelled 0 - 110 mmHg not 0 - 1110 mmHg.

Page 281
Under the heading 'Myoglobin', subheading 'Tests', the arrow preceding PO₄^3- should point up, not down.

Page 318
Under the heading 'Features of', subheading 'GH lack', the arrow after glucose should point down, not up.

Page 380, Epilepsy: Management
Under the heading 'Commonly used drugs', maximum dose of Carbamezapine should be 800-1000mg/12hr, not 800-1000g/12hr.

Page 711, Drug therapeutic ranges in plasma
The therapeutic range for phenobarital should be 60-180 µmol/L, not 60-80 µmol/L.

Oxford Handbook of Clinical Medicine, 5th edition (ISBN 0192629883)

Errata

Page 650, Anticoagulants
In the paragraph 'Beginning anticoagulation' the table should read as follows:

Measure APTT every 10h (every 4h if APPT >7, and stop the IVI)

N.B. This correction has been incorporated into the Oxford Handbook of Clinical Medicine, 6th Edition.