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Title Evidence-based emergency care : diagnostic testing and clinical decision rules / Jesse M. Pines [and others]
Edition 2nd ed
Published Chichester, West Sussex : Wiley, 2013

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Description 1 online resource
Series Evidence-based medicine series
Evidence-based medicine.
Contents 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
Summary "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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record and CIP data provided by publisher
Subject Emergency medicine -- Diagnosis.
Emergency medicine -- Decision making
Evidence-based medicine.
Evidence-Based Emergency Medicine -- methods
Diagnostic Techniques and Procedures
MEDICAL -- Allied Health Services -- Emergency Medical Services.
MEDICAL -- Emergency Medicine.
MEDICAL -- Nursing -- Emergency.
Emergency medicine -- Diagnosis
Evidence-based medicine
Form Electronic book
Author Pines, Jesse M
LC no. 2012026183
ISBN 9781118482131
1118482131
9781118482148
111848214X
9781118482124
1118482123
9781118482117
1118482115
9781299188273
1299188273
0470657839
9780470657836