1. Edition - July 2009
38.90 Euro
2009. 96 Pages, Softcover
- Practical Approach Book -
ISBN-10: 1-4051-7063-8
ISBN-13: 978-1-4051-7063-5 - John Wiley & Sons






Sample Chapter

Short description
A practical guide to the diagnosis and treatment of acute symptoms and conditions, the ABC of Emergency Differential Diagnosis provides a step-by-step guide to emergency differential diagnosis for non-specialists in a hospital or primary care setting.

This new title in the ABC series covers the assessment, diagnosis, treatment, and management of the most common symptoms with 'walk through' diagnosis, clear learning outcomes, and easy to find treatment options.

Using the familiar problem-based teaching approach for rapid assimilation of information, case studies in each chapter allow the reader to be sure that they have synthesised the information given and can apply it to clinical cases.

From the contents
Contributors.

Preface.

1 Unconsciousness and Coma (Roger Dalton).

2 Calf Pain (Francis Morris and Alan Fletcher).

3 Chest Pain - Cardiac (Nicki Doddridge).

4 High Fever (Rachel Foster).

5 Vaginal Bleeding (Sian Ireland and Karen Selby).

6 Transient Weakness (Carole Gavin).

7 Abdominal Pain - Epigastric (Duncan Drury).

8 Acute Headache (Tom Locker).

9 Acutely Painful Joint (Rachel Tattersall).

10 Chest Pain - Pleuritic (Claire Gardner and Kevin Jones).

11 Dizziness (Scott Davison).

12 The Intoxicated Patient (Sue Croft).

13 The Shocked Patient (Arun Chaudhuri).

14 Palpitations (Charles Heatley).

15 Low Back Pain (Richard Kendall).

16 Acute Confusion (Steve Goodacre).

17 Shortness of Breath (Kevin Jones and Claire Gardner).

18 Collapse of Unknown Cause (Peter Lawson).

19 Abdominal Pain (Suzanne Mason and Alastair Pickering).

Index.