基本説明
A practical, step-by-step guide to the diagnosis and treatment of acute conditions for non-specialists.
Full Description
A practical guide to the diagnosis and treatment of acute symptoms and conditions, the ABC of Emergency Differential Diagnosis provides a step-by-step guide to emergency differential diagnosis for non-specialists in a hospital or primary care setting. This new title in the ABC series covers the assessment, diagnosis, treatment, and management of the most common symptoms with 'walk through' diagnosis, clear learning outcomes, and easy to find treatment options.
Using the familiar problem-based teaching approach for rapid assimilation of information, case studies in each chapter allow the reader to be sure that they have synthesised the information given and can apply it to clinical cases.
Contents
Contributors vii
Preface viii
1 Unconsciousness and Coma 1
Roger Dalton
2 Calf Pain 5
Francis Morris and Alan Fletcher
3 Chest Pain - Cardiac 9
Nicki Doddridge
4 High Fever 13
Rachel Foster
5 Vaginal Bleeding 18
Sian Ireland and Karen Selby
6 Transient Weakness 22
Carole Gavin
7 Abdominal Pain - Epigastric 26
Duncan Drury
8 Acute Headache 30
Tom Locker
9 Acutely Painful Joint 34
Rachel Tattersall
10 Chest Pain - Pleuritic 37
Claire Gardner and Kevin Jones
11 Dizziness 41
Scott Davison
12 The Intoxicated Patient 48
Sue Croft
13 The Shocked Patient 52
Arun Chaudhuri
14 Palpitations 57
Charles Heatley
15 Low Back Pain 60
Richard Kendall
16 Acute Confusion 64
Steve Goodacre
17 Shortness of Breath 68
Kevin Jones and Claire Gardner
18 Collapse of Unknown Cause 72
Peter Lawson
19 Abdominal Pain 76
Suzanne Mason and Alastair Pickering
Index 81
