Urgent Care Medicine Secrets, 2nd Edition

by Robert P. Olympia, MD, FAAP, Rory O'Neill, DO and Matthew L. Silvis, MD

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ISBN: 9780443107528

Publication Date: 04-25-2024

Page Count: 432

Imprint: Elsevier

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- Fully revised and updated throughout, covering the full range of topics for understanding today’s practice of adult and pediatric urgent care—essential information for physicians, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants
- Provides an evidence-based approach to medical and traumatic complaints presenting to urgent care centers, focusing on presenting signs and symptoms, differential diagnosis, office management, and when to refer for higher level of care
- New chapters on Head and Neck Trauma, Chest and Abdominal Trauma, Toxicology, Diagnostic Imaging, Obstetrical Complaints, and more
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New to This Edition
- New chapters !o Urgent Care Medicine: the past, present, and future
- Head and Neck Trauma
- Chest and Abdominal Trauma
- Toxicology
- General concepts in Diagnostic Imaging
Contents

I General Concepts in Urgent Care Medicine
1. URGENT CARE MEDICINE: THE PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE
2. THE BUSINESS OF URGENT CARE
3. OFFICE EMERGENCY AND DISASTER PREPAREDNESS
4. ADULT EMERGENCIES PRESENTING TO URGENT CARE CENTERS
5. PEDIATRIC EMERGENCIES PRESENTING TO URGENT CARE CENTERS

II Adult Urgent Care Medicine
6. HEADACHE AND NEUROLOGIC COMPLAINTS
7. RED EYE, EYE PAIN, AND VISION LOSS
8. EAR, NOSE, AND THROAT
9. DENTAL AND MOUTH PAIN
10. COUGH, SHORTNESS OF BREATH, AND CHEST PAIN
11. ABDOMINAL PAIN, NAUSEA, VOMITING, AND DIARRHEA
12. GENITOURINARY COMPLAINTS
13. GYNECOLOGIC COMPLAINTS
14. RASHES AND SKIN INFECTIONS
15. HEAD AND NECK TRAUMA
16. CHEST AND ABDOMINAL TRAUMA
17. MUSCULOSKELETAL PRESENTATIONS
18. INFECTIOUS DISEASE ISSUES

III Pediatric Urgent Care Medicine
19. FEVER
20. HEADACHE
21. EYE COMPLAINTS
22. EAR PAIN, NASAL CONGESTION, AND SORE THROAT
23. NECK PAIN AND MASSES
24. COUGH
25. CHEST PAIN
26. ABDOMINAL PAIN
27. NAUSEA, VOMITING, DIARRHEA, AND DEHYDRATION
28. URINARY AND UROLOGIC COMPLAINTS
29. VAGINAL COMPLAINTS
30. SKIN RASHES AND INFECTIONS
31. LIMP
32. HEAD AND NECK TRAUMA
33. CHEST AND ABDOMINAL TRAUMA
34. EXTREMITY TRAUMA
35. COMMON NEWBORN COMPLAINTS

IV Sports-Related Complaints
36. CONCUSSION
37. ACUTE NECK PAIN
38. ACUTE LOW BACK PAIN
39. EVALUATION AND MANAGEMENT OF ACUTE SPRAINS AND STRAINS
40. OVERUSE APOPHYSEAL INJURIES
41. THE ACUTELY INJURED SHOULDER
42. FOOSH (FALL ON OUTSTRETCHED HAND) INJURIES
43. ACUTE FINGER AND WRIST INJURIES
44. THE ACUTELY SWOLLEN KNEE
45. THE ACUTELY LIMPING CHILD
46. ANKLE SPRAINS
47. ENVIRONMENTAL EMERGENCIES
48. ACUTE INFECTIOUS DISEASES AND THE ATHLETE
49. WHEN TO IMAGE FOR SPORTS-RELATED COMPLAINTS

V Procedures
50. WOUND ASSESSMENT, BURNS, AND ANIMAL BITES
51. LACERATION REPAIR
52. FRACTURE AND DISLOCATION REDUCTIONS
53. SPLINTING AND CASTING
54. ABSCESS INCISION AND DRAINAGE
55. FOREIGN BODY REMOVAL
56. DENTAL AND ORAL COMPLAINTS AND PROCEDURES
57. ANALGESIA AND SEDATION

VI Miscellaneous
58. MENTAL HEALTH URGENCIES
59. TOXICOLOGY
60. TRAVEL MEDICINE
61. DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING: GENERAL CONCEPTS
62. DIAGNOSTIC ULTRASOUND
63. OBSTETRICAL COMPLAINTS
Authors

Robert P. Olympia, MD, FAAP, Professor, Departments of Emergency Medicine & Pediatrics, Penn State College of Medicine, Assistant Director of Research, Department of Emergency Medicine, Attending Physician, Department of Emergency Medicine, Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center/ Penn State Children's Hospital Department of Emergency Medicine, Hershey, Pennsylvania, USA, Rory O'Neill, DO, Owner and Chief Operating Officer, All Better Care Urgent Care Centers, USA and Matthew L. Silvis, MD, Associate Chief Medical Officer, Primary Care, Penn State Hershey, Program Director, Penn State Primary Care Sports Medicine Fellowship, Hershey, Professor, Departments of Family and Community Medicine & Orthopedics and Rehabilitation, Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, Hershey, Pennsylvania, USA