BookAshis Banerjee.
Summary: This book is a rapid reference guide for all levels of medical staff working in emergency and acute care settings, but may also benefit nursing professionals and medical students. In this book, the readers will find diagnostic checklists, organised according to potential emergency presentations and classified under body systems, including atypical presentations, lists of differential diagnoses and guidance to pattern recognition. The book aims to help the reader achieve the correct diagnosis in an emergency setting, which continues to remain a challenge, given the variety of potential clinical presentations. Diagnostic failure is the largest reason for delays in provision of appropriate treatment and the largest source of clinical complaints and untoward incidents.
Contents:
1. Cardiovascular emergencies
2. Respiratory emergencies
3. Musculoskeletal emergencies
4. Metabolic and endocrine emergencies
5. Dermatological emergencies
6. Ocular emergencies
7. ENT and maxillofacial emergencies
8. Gynaecological emergencies
9. Neurological and psychiatric emergencies
10. Toxicological emergencies
11. Emergencies in the elderly
12. Gastrointestinal emergencies
13. Renal and urological emergencies
14. Haematological and oncological emergencies
15. Infectious disease emergencies
16. Paediatric emergencies.