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

• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Pines, Jesse M.
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Chichester, West Sussex : Wiley, 2013.
• Έκδοση: 2nd ed.
• Σειρά: Evidence-based medicine.
• Θέματα: Emergency medicine > Diagnosis.; Emergency medicine > Decision making.; Evidence-based medicine.; MEDICAL > Allied Health Services > Emergency Medical Services.; MEDICAL > Emergency Medicine.; MEDICAL > Nursing > Emergency.; Evidence-Based Emergency Medicine > methods.; Diagnostic Techniques and Procedures.; Electronic books.

 "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. 

 Part 1: The science of diagnostic testing and clinical decision rules. Diagnostic testing in emergency care -- Evidence-based medicine: 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 -- Part 2: Trauma. Cervical spine fractures -- Cervical spine fractures in children -- Cervical spine fractures in 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 extremities and vascular injuries -- Part 3: Cardiology. Heart failure -- Syncope -- Acute coronary syndrome -- Palpitations -- Part 4: Infectious disease. Bacterial meningitis in children -- Serious bacterial infections in children aged 1-3 months -- Necrotizing fasciitis -- Infective endocarditis -- Pharyngitis -- Rhinosinusitis -- Pneumonia -- Urinary tract infection -- Sepsis -- Septic arthritis -- Osteomyelitis -- Sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) -- Influenza -- Pediatric fever in children aged 3-36 months -- Part 5: Surgical and abdominal complaints. Acute, nonspecific, nontraumatic abdominal pain -- Small bowel obstruction -- Acute pancreatitis -- Acute appendicitis -- Acute cholecystitis -- Aortic emergencies -- Ovarian torsion -- Part 6: Urology. Nephrolithiasis -- Testicular torsion -- Part 7: Neurology. Nontraumatic subarachnoid hemorrhage -- Acute stroke -- Transient ischemic attack -- Seizure -- Part 8: Miscellaneous: hematology, ophthalmology, pulmonology, rheumatology, and geriatrics. Venous thromboembolism -- Temporal arteritis -- Intraocular pressure -- Asthma -- Nontraumatic back pain -- Intravascular volume status -- Geriatric syndromes.