Editorial Unimagdalena

Description in English: The book "Decision Guides in Emergencies - Adult Medicine" (GUMA) is the product of the effort, work, and dedication of the group of staff teachers and professors of the Medicine Program of the University of Magdalena and some external consultants at the national and international levels. This text is a quick and easy reference guide that improves and facilitates the attitude of medical students, rotating internships, general practitioners, first-year residents of internal medicine and family medicine; its theme includes a series of the most frequent and relevant topics suffered by adult patients who consult in an emergency department. The care of adult patients in the emergency room poses new challenges every day due to the type of acute pathology they suffer from, which, through adequate approach and management, can promptly resolve their illness and thus reduce morbidity and mortality. This decision text was made thinking about the needs of the emergency medical professional and the various health-providing institutions (IPS), written under a series of theoretical-practical concepts with a very high scientific level that allow addressing and managing different emergency situations that affect the adult patient, thus favoring the learning process of the student in training. The bibliographic support is updated and with adequate application of the available medical evidence. This book covers a bibliographic gap in the last decade in Colombia regarding emergency care texts for acutely ill adult patients.