Improve and streamline the diagnostic decision-making process in emergency care
The newly revised third edition of Evidence-Based Emergency Care: Diagnostic Testing and Clinical Decision Rules offers an updated review of the evidence and expert discussion of relevant issues in diagnostic testing in the everyday practice of emergency medicine. This book also provides a detailed overview of the science of diagnostic testing and reviews the process behind the development of clinical decision rules. The focus is asking and answering practical questions using original research studies, while commenting on the best available evidence for relevant clinical topics.
Readers will also find:
Comprehensive explorations of COVID-19, telemedicine, trauma, cardiology, infectious disease, and surgical and abdominal complaints
Practical discussions of urology, neurology, hematology, ophthalmology, pulmonology, rheumatology, and geriatric medicine
Exploration of practice and policy considerations of testing in an era of limited resources
The book is perfect for emergency medicine physicians, nurses, and other allied health professionals. Readers of Evidence-Based Emergency Care: Diagnostic Testing and Clinical Decision Rules, Third Edition will also earn a place in the libraries of administrators and managers in healthcare settings seeking to optimize the use of scarce resources while maintaining the highest standards of care.
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Höhe: 216 mm
Breite: 140 mm
Dicke: 41 mm
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978-1-119-61681-8 (9781119616818)
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Jesse M. Pines, MD, MBA, MSCE is the National Director of Clinical Innovation at US Acute Care Solutions and a Professor of Emergency Medicine at Drexel University. He is board-certified in emergency medicine.
Fernanda Belliolio, MD, MS is the Chair for Research and a Professor of Emergency Medicine in the Department of Emergency Medicine at the Mayo Clinic. She is board-certified in emergency medicine.
Christopher R. Carpenter, MD, MSc is the Director of Evidence Based Medicine and a Professor of Emergency Medicine in the Division of Emergency Medicine at Barnes Jewish Hospital at Washington University. He is board-certified in emergency medicine.
Ali S. Raja, MD, MBA, MPH is Executive Vice Chair of the Department of Emergency Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital and a Professor of Emergency Medicine at Harvard Medical School. He is board-certified in emergency medicine and clinical informatics.
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Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgements
Section 1: The Science of Diagnostic Testing and Clinical Decision Rules
1. Diagnostic Testing in Emergency Care
2. Evidence Based Medicine: The Process
3. The Epidemiology and Statistics of Diagnostic Testing
4. Clinical Decision Rules
5. Appropriate Testing in an Era of Limited Resources: Practice and Policy Consideration
6. Understanding Bias in Diagnostic Research
Section 2: Trauma
7. Cervical Spine Fractures
8. Blunt Abdominal Trauma
9. Acute Knee Injuries
10. Acute Ankle and Foot Injuries
11. Blunt Head Injury in Children
12. Adult Blunt Head Injury
13. Chest Trauma
14. Occult Hip Fracture
15. Blunt Soft Tissue Neck Trauma
16. Occult Scaphoid Fractures
17. Penetrating Abdominal Trauma
18. Penetrating Trauma to the Extremities and Vascular Injuries
19. Heart Failure
20. Syncope
21. Chest Pain
22. Palpitations
23. Bacterial Meningitis in Children
24. Serious Bacterial Infections in Children Aged 0 to 60/90 days
25. Necrotizing Soft Tissue Infection
26. Infective Endocarditis
27. Pharyngitis
28. Rhinosinusitis
29. Pneumonia
30. Urinary Tract Infection
31. Sepsis
32. Adult Septic Arthritis
33. Osteomyelitis
34. Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs)
35. Influenza
36. Fever Without a Source 3 to 36 Months
37. Acute, Nonspecific, Nontraumatic Abdominal Pain
38. Small Bowel Obstruction
39. Acute Pancreatitis
40. Acute Appendicitis
41. Acute Chloecystitis
42. Aortic Emergencies
43. Ovarian Torsion
44. Nephrolithiasis
45. Testicular Torsion
46. Nontraumatic Subarachnoid Hemorrhage
47. Acute Stroke
48. Transient Ischemic Attack
49. First Episode Seizure
50. Pulmonary Embolism
51. Deep Vein Thrombosis
52. Temporal Arteritis
53. Intraocular Pressure
54. Asthma
55. Acute Low Back Pain
56. Intravascular Volume Status
57. Geriatric Screening
58. Skin and Soft Tissue Infections
59. Shared Decision Making in Diagnostic Testing
60. Cognitive Biases and Mitigations and Strategies in Emergency Diagnosis
61. Diagnosis in Telemedicine
62. Diagnosising COVID-19
