The aim of this book is to help the reader achieve the correct diagnosis in the 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, which can be life-saving, and the largest source of clinical complaints and untoward incidents leading to poor clinical outcomes and to litigation.
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.
Apart from providing an aide-memoire for a range of presentations, it is hoped that the book will allow for better quality and informed referrals, especially between health care providers.
This book is aimed as a rapid reference guide for all levels of medical staff working inemergency and acute care settings in the English-speaking world, but may also benefit nursing professionals and medical students.
Tabela de Conteúdo
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.
Sobre o autor
Mr Ashis Banerjee, MS, FRCS, FRCEM, DTM & H
Mr. Banerjee is currently consultant at the Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust, and honorary senior lecturer at University College London Medical School and the University of Hertfordshire. Mr. Banerjee has around ninety peer reviewed publications and has published books with W. B. Saunders, the RSM Press, Oxford University Press and Cambridge University Press, as well as co-edited a two volume international textbook of emergency medicine published by Wolters Kluwer. He has also been examiner for the General Medical Council, Royal College of Emergency Medicine, Royal College of Surgeons of England, and London University.
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