Full Description
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 Medicine Secrets, 2nd Edition, offers practical, up-to-date coverage of the full range of essential topics in this dynamic field. This highly regarded resource features the Secrets' popular question-and-answer format that also includes lists, tables, pearls, memory aids, and an easy-to-read style - making inquiry, reference, and review quick, easy, and enjoyable.
The proven Secrets Series® format gives you the most return for your time - succinct, easy to read, engaging, and highly effective
Fully revised and updated throughout, covering the full range of topics for understanding today's practice of adult and pediatric urgent care-essential information for physicians, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants
Provides an evidence-based approach to medical and traumatic complaints presenting to urgent care centers, focusing on presenting signs and symptoms, differential diagnosis, office management, and when to refer for higher level of care
New chapters on Head and Neck Trauma, Chest and Abdominal Trauma, Toxicology, Diagnostic Imaging, Obstetrical Complaints, and more
Top 100 Secrets and Key Points boxes provide a fast overview of the secrets you must know for success in practice and on exams
Clear illustrations, figures, and flow diagrams expedite reference and review
Portable size makes it easy to carry with you for quick reference or review anywhere, anytime
An eBook version is included with purchase. The eBook allows you to access all of the text, figures, and references, with the ability to search, customize your content, make notes and highlights, and have content read aloud
New chapters !o Urgent Care Medicine: the past, present, and future
Head and Neck Trauma
Chest and Abdominal Trauma
Toxicology
General concepts in Diagnostic Imaging
Contents
I General Concepts in Urgent Care Medicine
1. URGENT CARE MEDICINE: THE PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE
2. THE BUSINESS OF URGENT CARE
3. OFFICE EMERGENCY AND DISASTER PREPAREDNESS
4. ADULT EMERGENCIES PRESENTING TO URGENT CARE CENTERS
5. PEDIATRIC EMERGENCIES PRESENTING TO URGENT CARE CENTERS
II Adult Urgent Care Medicine
6. HEADACHE AND NEUROLOGIC COMPLAINTS
7. RED EYE, EYE PAIN, AND VISION LOSS
8. EAR, NOSE, AND THROAT
9. DENTAL AND MOUTH PAIN
10. COUGH, SHORTNESS OF BREATH, AND CHEST PAIN
11. ABDOMINAL PAIN, NAUSEA, VOMITING, AND DIARRHEA
12. GENITOURINARY COMPLAINTS
13. GYNECOLOGIC COMPLAINTS
14. RASHES AND SKIN INFECTIONS
15. HEAD AND NECK TRAUMA
16. CHEST AND ABDOMINAL TRAUMA
17. MUSCULOSKELETAL PRESENTATIONS
18. INFECTIOUS DISEASE ISSUES
III Pediatric Urgent Care Medicine
19. FEVER
20. HEADACHE
21. EYE COMPLAINTS
22. EAR PAIN, NASAL CONGESTION, AND SORE THROAT
23. NECK PAIN AND MASSES
24. COUGH
25. CHEST PAIN
26. ABDOMINAL PAIN
27. NAUSEA, VOMITING, DIARRHEA, AND DEHYDRATION
28. URINARY AND UROLOGIC COMPLAINTS
29. VAGINAL COMPLAINTS
30. SKIN RASHES AND INFECTIONS
31. LIMP
32. HEAD AND NECK TRAUMA
33. CHEST AND ABDOMINAL TRAUMA
34. EXTREMITY TRAUMA
35. COMMON NEWBORN COMPLAINTS
IV Sports-Related Complaints
36. CONCUSSION
37. ACUTE NECK PAIN
38. ACUTE LOW BACK PAIN
39. EVALUATION AND MANAGEMENT OF ACUTE SPRAINS AND STRAINS
40. OVERUSE APOPHYSEAL INJURIES
41. THE ACUTELY INJURED SHOULDER
42. FOOSH (FALL ON OUTSTRETCHED HAND) INJURIES
43. ACUTE FINGER AND WRIST INJURIES
44. THE ACUTELY SWOLLEN KNEE
45. THE ACUTELY LIMPING CHILD
46. ANKLE SPRAINS
47. ENVIRONMENTAL EMERGENCIES
48. ACUTE INFECTIOUS DISEASES AND THE ATHLETE
49. WHEN TO IMAGE FOR SPORTS-RELATED COMPLAINTS
V Procedures
50. WOUND ASSESSMENT, BURNS, AND ANIMAL BITES
51. LACERATION REPAIR
52. FRACTURE AND DISLOCATION REDUCTIONS
53. SPLINTING AND CASTING
54. ABSCESS INCISION AND DRAINAGE
55. FOREIGN BODY REMOVAL
56. DENTAL AND ORAL COMPLAINTS AND PROCEDURES
57. ANALGESIA AND SEDATION
VI Miscellaneous
58. MENTAL HEALTH URGENCIES
59. TOXICOLOGY
60. TRAVEL MEDICINE
61. DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING: GENERAL CONCEPTS
62. DIAGNOSTIC ULTRASOUND
63. OBSTETRICAL COMPLAINTS
