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Evidence-based emergency care : diagnostic testing and clinical decision rules /

"The purpose of this book is to present relevant questions on diagnostic testing that arise in everyday emergency medicine practice and to comment on the best available evidence"--Provided by publisher

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Pines, Jesse M.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chichester, West Sussex : Wiley, 2013.
Edición:2nd ed.
Colección:Evidence-based medicine.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • pt. 1. The Science of Diagnostic Testing and Clinical Decision Rules. Diagnostic Testing in Emergency Care
  • Evidence-Based Emergency Care: The Process
  • The Epidemiology and Statistics of Diagnostic Testing
  • Clinical Decision Rules
  • Appropriate Testing In an Era of Limited Resources: Practice and Policy Considerations
  • Understanding Bias in Diagnostic Research
  • pt. 2. Trauma. Cervical Spine Fractures
  • Cervical Spine Fractures in Children
  • Cervical Spine Fractures Older Adults
  • Blunt Abdominal Trauma
  • Acute Knee Injuries
  • Acute Ankle and Foot Injuries
  • Blunt Head Injury in Children
  • Blunt Head Injury
  • Blunt Chest Trauma
  • Occult Hip Fracture
  • Blunt Soft Tissue Neck Trauma
  • Occult Scaphoid Fractures
  • Penetrating Abdominal Trauma
  • Penetrating Trauma to the Extremity and Vascular Injuries
  • pt. 3. Cardiology. Heart Failure
  • Syncope
  • Acute Coronary Syndrome
  • Palpitations.
  • pt. 4. Infectious Disease. Bacterial Meningitis In Children
  • Serious Baterial Infections in Children Aged One to Three Months
  • Necrotizing Fasciitis
  • Infective Endocarditis
  • Pharyngitis
  • Rhinosinusitis
  • Pneumonia
  • Urinary Tract Infection
  • Sepsis
  • Septic Arthritis
  • Osteomyelitis
  • Sexually Transmitted Diseases
  • Influenza
  • Pediatric Fever
  • pt. 5. Surgical and Abdominal Complaints. Acute, Non-specific, Non-traumatic abdominal pain
  • Small Bowel Obstruction
  • Acute Pancreatitis
  • Acute Appendicitis
  • Acute Cholecystitis
  • Aortic Emergencies
  • Ovarian torsion
  • pt. 6. Urology. Nephrolithiasis
  • Testicular torsion
  • pt. 7. Neurology. Non-traumatic Subarachnoid Hemorrhage
  • Acute stroke
  • Transient Ischemic Attack
  • Seizure
  • pt. 8. Miscellaneous: Ophthamology, Hematology, Rheumatology, and Pulmonology. Venous Thromboemoblism
  • Temporal arteritis
  • Intraocular pressure
  • Asthma
  • Non-traumatic Back Pain
  • Intravascular Volume Status
  • Geriatric syndromes.