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.
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- 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.
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Table of Contents
I General Concepts in Urgent Care MedicineCHAPTER 1 URGENT CARE MEDICINE: THE PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE
CHAPTER 2 THE BUSINESS OF URGENT CARE
CHAPTER 3 OFFICE EMERGENCY AND DISASTER PREPAREDNESS
CHAPTER 4 ADULT EMERGENCIES PRESENTING TO URGENT CARE CENTERS
CHAPTER 5 PEDIATRIC EMERGENCIES PRESENTING TO URGENT CARE CENTERS
II Adult Urgent Care Medicine
CHAPTER 6 HEADACHE AND NEUROLOGIC COMPLAINTS
CHAPTER 7 RED EYE, EYE PAIN, AND VISION LOSS
CHAPTER 8 EAR, NOSE, AND THROAT
CHAPTER 9 DENTAL AND MOUTH PAIN
CHAPTER 10 COUGH, SHORTNESS OF BREATH, AND CHEST PAIN
CHAPTER 11 ABDOMINAL PAIN, NAUSEA, VOMITING, AND DIARRHEA
CHAPTER 12 GENITOURINARY COMPLAINTS
CHAPTER 13 GYNECOLOGIC COMPLAINTS
CHAPTER 14 RASHES AND SKIN INFECTIONS
CHAPTER 15 HEAD AND NECK TRAUMA
CHAPTER 16 CHEST AND ABDOMINAL TRAUMA
CHAPTER 17 MUSCULOSKELETAL PRESENTATIONS
CHAPTER 18 INFECTIOUS DISEASE ISSUES
III Pediatric Urgent Care Medicine
CHAPTER 19 FEVER
CHAPTER 20 HEADACHE
CHAPTER 21 EYE COMPLAINTS
CHAPTER 22 EAR PAIN, NASAL CONGESTION, AND SORE THROAT
CHAPTER 23 NECK PAIN AND MASSES
CHAPTER 24 COUGH
CHAPTER 25 CHEST PAIN
CHAPTER 26 ABDOMINAL PAIN
CHAPTER 27 NAUSEA, VOMITING, DIARRHEA, AND DEHYDRATION
CHAPTER 28 URINARY AND UROLOGIC COMPLAINTS
CHAPTER 29 VAGINAL COMPLAINTS
CHAPTER 30 SKIN RASHES AND INFECTIONS
CHAPTER 31 LIMP
CHAPTER 32 HEAD AND NECK TRAUMA
CHAPTER 33 CHEST AND ABDOMINAL TRAUMA
CHAPTER 34 EXTREMITY TRAUMA
CHAPTER 35 COMMON NEWBORN COMPLAINTS
IV Sports-Related Complaints
CHAPTER 36 CONCUSSION
CHAPTER 37 ACUTE NECK PAIN
CHAPTER 38 ACUTE LOW BACK PAIN
CHAPTER 39 EVALUATION AND MANAGEMENT OF ACUTE SPRAINS AND STRAINS
CHAPTER 40 OVERUSE APOPHYSEAL INJURIES
CHAPTER 41 THE ACUTELY INJURED SHOULDER
CHAPTER 42 FOOSH (FALL ON OUTSTRETCHED HAND) INJURIES
CHAPTER 43 ACUTE FINGER AND WRIST INJURIES
CHAPTER 44 THE ACUTELY SWOLLEN KNEE
CHAPTER 45 THE ACUTELY LIMPING CHILD
CHAPTER 46 ANKLE SPRAINS
CHAPTER 47 ENVIRONMENTAL EMERGENCIES
CHAPTER 48 ACUTE INFECTIOUS DISEASES AND THE ATHLETE
CHAPTER 49 WHEN TO IMAGE FOR SPORTS-RELATED COMPLAINTS
V Procedures
CHAPTER 50 WOUND ASSESSMENT, BURNS, AND ANIMAL BITES
CHAPTER 51 LACERATION REPAIR
CHAPTER 52 FRACTURE AND DISLOCATION REDUCTIONS
CHAPTER 53 SPLINTING AND CASTING
CHAPTER 54 ABSCESS INCISION AND DRAINAGE
CHAPTER 55 FOREIGN BODY REMOVAL
CHAPTER 56 DENTAL AND ORAL COMPLAINTS AND PROCEDURES
CHAPTER 57 ANALGESIA AND SEDATION
VI Miscellaneous
CHAPTER 58 MENTAL HEALTH URGENCIES
CHAPTER 59 TOXICOLOGY
CHAPTER 60 TRAVEL MEDICINE
CHAPTER 61 DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING: GENERAL CONCEPTS
CHAPTER 62 DIAGNOSTIC ULTRASOUND
CHAPTER 63 OBSTETRICAL COMPLAINTS
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