cover image - Urgent Care Medicine Secrets - Elsevier E-Book on VitalSource, 2nd Edition
ISBN: 9780443109034
Copyright: 2025
Publication Date: 04-18-2024
Page Count: 432
Imprint: Elsevier
List Price: $41.99

Urgent Care Medicine Secrets - Elsevier E-Book on VitalSource, 2nd Edition

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

Elsevier eBook on VitalSource

cover image - Urgent Care Medicine Secrets - Elsevier E-Book on VitalSource, 2nd Edition
ISBN: 9780443109034
Copyright: 2025
Publication Date: 04-18-2024
Page Count: 432
Imprint: Elsevier
List Price: $41.99
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For more than 30 years, the highly regarded Secrets Series® has provided students and practitioners in all areas of health care with concise, focused, and engaging resources for quick reference and exam review. Urgent Care Medicine Secrets, 2nd Edition, offers practical, up-to-date coverage of the full range of essential topics in this dynamic field. This highly regarded resource features the Secrets’ popular question-and-answer format that also includes lists, tables, pearls, memory aids, and an easy-to-read style – making inquiry, reference, and review quick, easy, and enjoyable.
    • The proven Secrets Series® format gives you the most return for your time – succinct, easy to read, engaging, and highly effective
    • 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
    • Top 100 Secrets and Key Points boxes provide a fast overview of the secrets you must know for success in practice and on exams
    • Clear illustrations, figures, and flow diagrams expedite reference and review
    • Portable size makes it easy to carry with you for quick reference or review anywhere, anytime
    • An eBook version is included with purchase. The eBook allows you to access all of the text, figures, and references, with the ability to search, customize your content, make notes and highlights, and have content read aloud
  • 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
  • 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
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