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Author:   Francis Morris (Northern General Hospital, Sheffield, UK) ,  Alan Fletcher (Northern General Hospital, Sheffield, UK)
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Imprint:   BMJ Books
Dimensions:   Width: 22.10cm , Height: 0.70cm , Length: 27.70cm
Weight:   0.336kg
ISBN:  

9781405170635

ISBN 10:   1405170638
Pages:   96
Publication Date:   10 July 2009
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Contributors vii Preface viii 1 Unconsciousness and Coma 1 Roger Dalton 2 Calf Pain 5 Francis Morris and Alan Fletcher 3 Chest Pain – Cardiac 9 Nicki Doddridge 4 High Fever 13 Rachel Foster 5 Vaginal Bleeding 18 Sian Ireland and Karen Selby 6 Transient Weakness 22 Carole Gavin 7 Abdominal Pain – Epigastric 26 Duncan Drury 8 Acute Headache 30 Tom Locker 9 Acutely Painful Joint 34 Rachel Tattersall 10 Chest Pain – Pleuritic 37 Claire Gardner and Kevin Jones 11 Dizziness 41 Scott Davison 12 The Intoxicated Patient 48 Sue Croft 13 The Shocked Patient 52 Arun Chaudhuri 14 Palpitations 57 Charles Heatley 15 Low Back Pain 60 Richard Kendall 16 Acute Confusion 64 Steve Goodacre 17 Shortness of Breath 68 Kevin Jones and Claire Gardner 18 Collapse of Unknown Cause 72 Peter Lawson 19 Abdominal Pain 76 Suzanne Mason and Alastair Pickering Index 81

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Francis Morris, Consultant in Emergency Medicine, Northern General Hospital, Sheffield, UK. Lead editor of ABC of Clinical Electrocardiography. He is the Clinical Director of the Chest Pain Unit in Sheffiled and has written four book on aspects of emergency medicine. He is a regional representative of the British Association of Emergency Medicine. His main research interests are the management of chest pain, DVT and pulmonary embolus. Alan Fletcher, B Med Sci(Hons), MB ChB, MRCP, FFAEM. Appointed Consultant in Acute General Medicine and Emergency Medicine in 2004, Alan has clinical responsibilities in the Emergency Department and Medical Assessment Units. He is Sheffield Teaching Hospitals' Clinical Lead for Acute Medicine, Training Programme Director for Acute Medicine in the South Yorkshire Deanery, and Foundation Programme Director. Apart from an active teaching responsibility, he has research interests in the assessment of Nurse Practitioner competence and the value of acute medical admission.

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