Full Description
Urgent Care Emergencies Avoiding the Pitfalls and Improving the Outcomes
If you see patients in an urgent care center, minor injury unit or other acute care setting, this new clinically-focused guide will help you avoid high-risk pitfalls and achieve optimal outcomes.
This must-have resource covers a wide range of emergencies that may be encountered in an urgent care setting, focusing on those that can occur with the most commonly-encountered complaints and conditions, including:
Genitourinary complaints
Common infections
Orthopedic injuries
Wounds
Back pain
Dermatologic complaints
The book also includes chapters on common pitfalls during the HEENT examination, effective patient communications, urgent care pharmacology pitfalls, special issues in the care of pediatric and geriatric patients, and more. Each chapter is authored by an experienced acute care clinician and includes clinical pearls that you can apply directly to the care of your own patients.
The urgent care center can be a challenging and fast-paced environment, and pitfalls, especially those encountered during emergencies, can have serious consequences for patients' immediate well-being, their recovery time, and possibly their long-term prognosis. More than ever, you need a resource you can trust that has been tailored specifically to the needs of providers in the low-acuity setting.
Contents
List of Contributors vi
Preface ix
1 HEENT Pitfalls 1
Alisa M. Gibson and Sarah K. Sommerkamp
2 Management of Genitourinary Complaints 11
George Willis and Nadia Eltaki
3 Orthopedic Pitfalls of the Upper Extremity 21
Brooks M. Walsh and Reinier van Tonder
4 Orthopedic Pitfalls of the Lower Extremity 32
Christopher S. Kiefer
5 Orthopedic Pitfalls: Pediatrics 41
Jana L. Anderson and James L. Homme
6 Pitfalls of Wound Management 52
Michael K. Abraham and Hyung T. Kim
7 Emergency Dermatology for the Acute Care Provider 59
Eric T. Boie and Jennifer A. Lisowe
8 Management of Common Infections 70
Siamak Moayedi and Mercedes Torres
9 Headache 79
Michael J. Laughlin Jr. and David M. Nestler
10 The Evaluation and Management of Back Pain 87
Michael C. Bond
11 Pediatric Pitfalls 97
Jana L. Anderson and James L. Homme
12 Geriatric Pitfalls 109
Joseph P. Martinez
13 Pharmacology Pitfalls and Pearls in Urgent Care Medicine 119
Christopher E. Anderson and Ronna L. Campbell
14 Talking the Talk: Effective Communication in Urgent Care 132
Stephen M. Schenkel
Index 141
