Current and concise, the updated and revised 2nd Edition of this pocket-sized reference reflects the substantial changes shaping the evaluation and treatment of many emergency conditions today. Its unique signs and symptoms approach offers the quickest possible way to diagnose critical conditions in an emergency situation. Organized around presenting symptoms, it can be used in real time to answer patient care questions. Diagnoses are listed in order of their severity in each chapter, with the symptoms, signs, suggested workup, and patient disposition given for each diagnosis.
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1. Abdominal Pain 2. Agitation and Psychosis 3. AIDS 4. The Alcoholic Patient 5. Back Pain, Lower 6. Back Pain, Upper 7. Biological Terrorism 8. Bleeding 9. Chemical Terrorism 10. Chest Pain 11. Dizziness (Vertigo) 12. Ear Pain 13. Envenomations 14. Extremity Pain and Numbness 15. Eye Pain and Redness 16. Fever (Elevated Temperature) 17. Fever in Children Under 2 Years of Age 18. Fractures Not to Miss 19. Headache 20. Heat Illness, Hypothermia, and Submersion Injury 21. Hypotension 22. The Irritable Child and Vomiting 23. Jaundice 24. Joint Pain 25. Limping Child/Child Won't Walk 26. Mental Status Change and Coma 27. Neck Pain and Stiffness 28. Organ Transplantation 29. Palpitations and Tachycardia 30. Radiation Terrorism 31. Rash 32. Scrotal Pain 33. Seizure, Adult 34. Seizure, Pediatric 35. Shortness of Breath 36. Sore Throat 37. Syncope and Near-Syncope 38. Toxic Ingestion, Approach to 39. Trauma and Burns, Approach to 40. Vaginal Bleeding 41. Vision, Change in 42. Weakness and Fatigue Appendixes A. World Wide Web Resources and Decision Support B. Emergency Drug Treatments C. Pediatric Emergency References and Defibrillation and Cardioversion Code Blue "Unstable"/"Stable" Reference Card
