Textbook of Urgent Care Medicine (Urgent Care Education 1)
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Textbook of Urgent Care Medicine (Urgent Care Education 1)
The first and only comprehensive textbook in Urgent Care Medicine, covering all of they key core competencies, in a focused and easily referenced format. • Edited and authored by recognized leaders in urgent care education • Formatted for everyday clinical accessibility • Tailored material for typical encounters • Focuses on the unique challenges of the urgent care setting • Covers pearls & pitfalls, from triage to disposition • Quick reference points for risk management and medicolegal pearls
Table of Contents:
Section I. Neurologic Urgencies 1 Facial Droop • Resnick 2 Headache • Melamed and Rodon 3 Vertigo • Shufeldt 4 Acute Focal Neurologic Deficit • Toscano 5 Head Injury • Toscano 6 Altered Mental Status • Rodon and Rodon 7 Heat and Cold Urgencies • Lathrop and Shufeldt Section II. Head, Eye, Ear, Nose, and Throat Urgencies 8 Epistaxis • Rhodes 9 Acute Eye Trauma • Buzzard 10 Acute Vision Loss • Buzzard 11 The Acute Nontraumatic Red Eye • Buzzard 12 Otitis Media • Davidoff 13 Sinusitis • Davidoff 14 Dental Injuries and Pain • McNeeley 15 Sore Throat • Gluckman Section III. Respiratory Urgencies 16 Wheezing and Asthma • Ernst 17 Dyspnea • Davidoff 18 Respiratory Tract Infections • Toscano 19 Acute Exacerbations of Chronic Bronchitis • Ernst Section IV. Cardiac Urgencies 20 Syncope • Iserson 21 Chest Pain • Weinstock 22 Palpitations • Barkoudah and Debold-Hawley 23 Peripheral Edema • Collins Section V. Gastrointestinal Urgencies 24 Nausea, Vomiting, and Diarrhea in the Adult Patient • Gluckman 25 Abdominal Pain in the Adult Patient • Scheufele 26 Gastrointestinal Bleeding • Collins Section VI. Genitourinary Urgencies 27 Dysuria and Urinary Tract Infections in the Adult Patient • Gibson 28 Dysuria and Urinary Tract Infections in the Pediatric Patient • Gibson 29 Flank Pain and Kidney Stones • Gluckman Section VII. Orthopedic, Environmental, and Traumatic Urgencies 30 Neck Pain • Erickson and Shufeldt 31 Ankle and Foot Pain and Injury • Truax 32 Lower Extremity Pain and Injury • Prior, Speer, and Shufeldt 33 Shoulder and Upper Extremity Pain and Injury • Szerlip and Zimmer 34 Hand and Wrist Pain and Injury • Simela and Zimmer 35 Chest Wall and Other Thoracic Trauma • McNeeley 36 Facial Injuries • McNeeley 37 Laceration Repair and Wound Management • Bhoga 38 Needlesticks • Erickson and Shufeldt 39 Bites and Stings • Shufeldt 40 Back Pain • Burger Section VIII. Gynecologic and Obstetric Urgencies 41 Vaginal Bleeding • Sunshine 42 Sexually Transmitted Infections • Sunshine Section IX. Dermatologic Urgencies 43 Common Dermatologic Conditions • Shuman and Hogencamp 44 Urticaria and Angioedema • Knauer 45 Skin and Soft-Tissue Infections • Miller and Newgent 46 Contact Dermatitis • Nedorost 47 Burns • Davidoff Section X. Pediatric Urgencies 48 Respiratory Difficulty in the Pediatric Patient • Rose 49 Vomiting and Diarrhea in the Pediatric Patient • Graae 50 Upper Respiratory Infections in the Pediatric Patient • Chavda 51 Abdominal Pain in the Pediatric Patient • Schor 52 Limp in the Pediatric Patient • Gilmore 53 Upper and Lower Extremity Injuries in the Pediatric Patient • Gilmore 54 Fever Without a Source in the Pediatric Patient • Kilbane 55 Foreign Bodies in the Pediatric Patient • Bacevice 56 Excessive Crying in Infants • Hogencamp Section XI. Toxicologic and Medication-Related Urgencies 57 The Drug-Seeking Patient • Mark Rogers 58 Toxicologic Urgencies • Timothy B. Erickson and Timothy J. Meehan 59 Anaphylaxis • Knauer Section XII. Nonspecific Urgencies 60 Fatigue and Generalized Weakness • Weinstock Section XIII. Mental Health Urgencies 61 Psychiatric Urgencies • Brown