Textbook of Urgent Care Medicine

The most comprehensive Urgent Care textbook on the market. Edited and authored by recognized leaders in Urgent Care education. Focuses on the unique challenges of the Urgent Care setting.

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The most comprehensive Urgent Care textbook on the market. Edited and authored by recognized leaders in Urgent Care education. Focuses on the unique challenges of the Urgent Care setting.

 

Covers pearls & pitfalls, from triage to disposition. Topics Include: Neurologic Urgencies, Facial Droop, Headache, Vertigo, Acute Focal Neurologic Deficit, Head Injury: Altered Mental Status; Heat / Cold Urgencies; Head, Eye, Ear, Nose / Throat Urgencies; Epistaxis, Acute Eye Trauma, Acute Vision Loss, The Acute Nontraumatic Red Eye, Otitis Media, Sinusitis, Dental Injuries / Pain, Sore Throat, Respiratory Urgencies, Wheezing / Asthma, Dyspnea, Respiratory Tract Infections, Acute Exacerbations of Chronic Bronchitis, Cardiac Urgencies, Syncope, Chest Pain, Palpitations, Peripheral Edema, Nausea, Vomiting / Diarrhea, Abdominal Pain, Gastrointestinal Bleeding, Genitourinary Urgencies, Dysuria / Urinary Tract Infections in Adult / Pediatric Patients, Flank Pain and Kidney Stones; Orthopedic, Environmental, and Traumatic Urgencies; Neck Pain, Ankle / Foot Pain / Injury, Lower Extremity Pain / Injury, Shoulder / Upper Extremity Pain / Injury, Hand / Wrist Pain / Injury, Chest Wall / Other Thoracic Trauma, Facial Injuries, Laceration Repair / Wound Management, Needlesticks, Insect Bites / Stings, Back Pain, Gynecologic and Obstetric Urgencies, Vaginal Bleeding, Sexually Transmitted Infections, Dermatologic Urgencies, Common Dermatologic Conditions, Urticaria / Angioedema, Skin / Soft-Tissue Infections, Contact Dermatitis, Burns, Pediatric Urgencies: Respiratory Difficulty, Vomiting / Diarrhea, Upper Respiratory Infections, Abdominal Pain, Limp, Upper / Lower Extremity Injuries, Fever Without a Source, Foreign Bodies, Excessive Crying in Infants; Toxicologic and Medication-Related Urgencies, The Drug-Seeking Patient, Toxicologic Urgencies, Anaphylaxis, Nonspecific Urgencies, Fatigue / Generalized Weakness, Mental Health Urgencies, Psychiatric Urgencies.

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Contributor

Allison Gilmore, Ann Mary Bacevice, Ebrahim Barkoudah, Gregory P. Brown, Jasmeet Singh Bhogal, Jeffrey Collins, John Shufeldt, Kamal K. Chavda, Kent Erickson, Kimberly Gibson, Lee Resnick, Rasai Ernst, Scott T. Burger, Sean McNeeley, Terry Buzzard, Timothy Erickson, Toni Clare Hogencamp, Tracey Quail Davidoff, Wendy Graae, William Gluckman

Source

Amazon

Length

825 pages

Publication Date

01/01/2014