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Title ABC of emergency differential diagnosis / edited by Francis Morris, Alan Fletcher
Published Chichester, UK ; Hoboken, NJ : Wiley-Blackwell, 2009

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 84 pages) : color illustrations
Series ABC series
ABC series (Malden, Mass.)
Contents Unconsciousness and coma / Roger Dalton -- Calf pain / Francis Morris and Alan Fletcher -- Chest pain : cardiac / Nicki Doddridge -- High fever / Rachel Foster -- Vaginal bleeding / Sian Ireland and Karen Selby -- Transient weakness / Carole Gavin -- Abdominal pain : epigastric / Duncan Drury -- Acute headache / Tom Locker -- Acutely painful joint / Rachel Tattersall -- Chest pain : pleuritic / Claire Gardner and Kevin Jones -- Dizziness / Scott Davison -- The intoxicated patient / Sue Croft -- Shocked patient / Arun Chaudhuri -- Palpitations / Charles Heatley -- Low back pain / Richard Kendall -- Acute confusion / Steven Goodacre -- Shortness of breath / Kevin Jones and Claire Gardner -- Collapse of unknown cause / Peter Lawson -- Abdominal pain / Sue Mason and Alistair Pickering
Summary 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
Print version record
Subject Diagnosis, Differential -- Case studies
Emergency medicine -- Diagnosis -- Case studies
Diagnosis, Differential.
Diagnosis, Differential
Emergency Treatment
MEDICAL -- Laboratory Medicine.
MEDICAL -- Diagnosis.
MEDICAL -- Nursing -- Assessment & Diagnosis.
Diagnosis, Differential
Emergency medicine -- Diagnosis
Genre/Form Case studies
Case studies.
Études de cas.
Form Electronic book
Author Morris, Francis
Fletcher, Alan, 1968-
ISBN 9781444391251
1444391259
Other Titles Emergency differential diagnosis