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.

Λεπτομέρειες βιβλιογραφικής εγγραφής
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.
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Διαθέσιμο Online:Full Text via HEAL-Link
Πίνακας περιεχομένων:
  • 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.