Overview

Current and concise, the updated and revised 2nd Edition of this pocket-sized reference reflects the substantial changes shaping the evaluation and treatment of many emergency conditions today. Its unique ""signs and symptoms"" approach offers the quickest possible way to diagnose critical conditions in an emergency situation. Organized around presenting symptoms, it can be used in real time to answer patient care questions. Diagnoses are listed in order of their severity in each chapter, with the symptoms, signs, suggested workup, and patient disposition given for each diagnosis. Uses a symptom-based approach for quick diagnosis. Features an outline format for real-time reference. Focuses on the 200 conditions most frequently encountered in the emergency room. Presents a useful tool for evaluating the likelihood that a specific symptom - or symptoms - denotes a particular disease, and allows the reader to initiate an appropriate treatment. Includes new chapters on emergency situations involving biological, chemical, and radiation terrorism . chapters devoted to the challenges presented by patients with AIDS and those with organ transplants . two chapters on environmental emergencies . one chapter examining heat illness, hypothermia, and submersion injury . and a chapter on envenomations. Features expanded ""Treatment Considerations” sections.

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Author:   Mark A. Davis (Director, Institute for International Emergency Medicine and Health, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Department of Emergency Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA) ,  Scott R. Votey (Assiatant Dean for Medical Education; Professor of Clinical Medicine, UCLA School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA)
Publisher:   Elsevier - Health Sciences Division
Imprint:   Mosby
Edition:   2nd edition
Dimensions:   Width: 11.40cm , Height: 2.20cm , Length: 18.40cm
Weight:   0.540kg
ISBN:  

9780323036450

ISBN 10:   0323036457
Pages:   704
Publication Date:   18 July 2006
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Awaiting stock  
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Table of Contents

1. Abdominal Pain 2. Agitation and Psychosis 3. AIDS 4. The Alcoholic Patient 5. Back Pain, Lower 6. Back Pain, Upper 7. Biological Terrorism 8. Bleeding 9. Chemical Terrorism 10. Chest Pain 11. Dizziness (Vertigo) 12. Ear Pain 13. Envenomations 14. Extremity Pain and Numbness 15. Eye Pain and Redness 16. Fever (Elevated Temperature) 17. Fever in Children Under 2 Years of Age 18. Fractures Not to Miss 19. Headache 20. Heat Illness, Hypothermia, and Submersion Injury 21. Hypotension 22. The Irritable Child and Vomiting 23. Jaundice 24. Joint Pain 25. Limping Child/Child Won't Walk 26. Mental Status Change and Coma 27. Neck Pain and Stiffness 28. Organ Transplantation 29. Palpitations and Tachycardia 30. Radiation Terrorism 31. Rash 32. Scrotal Pain 33. Seizure, Adult 34. Seizure, Pediatric 35. Shortness of Breath 36. Sore Throat 37. Syncope and Near-Syncope 38. Toxic Ingestion, Approach to 39. Trauma and Burns, Approach to 40. Vaginal Bleeding 41. Vision, Change in 42. Weakness and Fatigue Appendixes A. World Wide Web Resources and Decision Support B. Emergency Drug Treatments C. Pediatric Emergency References and Defibrillation and Cardioversion Code Blue Unstable / Stable Reference Card

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