Urgent care medicine secrets /
Olympia, Robert,author.
O'Neill, Rory,author.
Silvis, Matthew,author.
For more than 30 years, the highly regarded Secrets Series® has provided students and practitioners in all areas of health care with concise, focused, and engaging resources for quick reference and exam review. Urgent Care Secrets, a new volume in this bestselling series, features the Secrets' popular question-and-answer format that also includes lists, tables, and an easy-to-read style - making reference and review quick, easy, and enjoyable"--Publisher's description.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Section I: Adult urgent care medicine. Headache and neurologic complaints -- Red eye, eye pain, and vision loss -- Ear, nose, and throat -- Dental and mouth pain -- Cough, shortness of breath, and chest pain -- Abdominal pain, nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea -- Genitourinary complaints -- Gynecologic complaints -- Rashes and skin infections -- Miscellaneous musculoskeletal trauma -- Miscellaneous infectious disease issues -- Section II. Pediatric urgent care medicine. Fever -- Headache -- Eye complaints -- Ear pain, nasal congestion, and sore throat -- Cough -- Neck pain and masses -- Chest pain -- Abdominal pain -- Nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, and dehydration -- Urinary complaints -- Vaginal complaints -- Skin rashes and infections -- Common newborn complaints -- Limp -- Head and neck trauma -- Chest and abdominal trauma -- Extremity trauma -- -- Section III. Sport-related complaints. Acute neck pain -- Evaluation and management of acute sprains and strains -- Acute low back pain -- The acutely swollen knee -- Acute finger and wrist injuries -- Fall on outstretched hand injuries -- When to image for sport-related complaints? -- Environmental emergencies -- The acutely injured shoulder -- Concussion -- Overuse apophyseal injuries -- The acutely limping child -- Ankle sprains -- Acute infectious disease and athletes -- Section IV. Procedures. Wound assessment, burns, and animal bites. Laceration repair -- Fracture and dislocation reductions -- Splinting procedures -- Abscess I&D -- Foreign body removal -- Dental and oral complaints and procedures -- Analgesia and sedation -- Section V. Miscellaneous. Adult emergencies presenting to urgent care centers. Pediatric emergencies presenting to urgent care centers -- Office emergency and disaster preparedness -- Diagnostic ultrasound -- Mental health urgencies -- Travel medicine -- Business of urgent care medicine.
For more than 30 years, the highly regarded Secrets Series® has provided students and practitioners in all areas of health care with concise, focused, and engaging resources for quick reference and exam review. Urgent Care Secrets, a new volume in this bestselling series, features the Secrets' popular question-and-answer format that also includes lists, tables, and an easy-to-read style - making reference and review quick, easy, and enjoyable"--Publisher's description.
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