Textbook of Urgent Care Medicine (Urgent Care Education 1)

The first and only comprehensive textbook in Urgent Care Medicine, covering all of they key core competencies, in a focused and easily referenced format.
• Edited and authored by recognized leaders in urgent care education
• Formatted for everyday clinical accessibility
• Tailored material for typical encounters
• Focuses on the unique challenges of the urgent care setting
• Covers pearls & pitfalls, from triage to disposition
• Quick reference points for risk management and medicolegal pearls

Table of Contents:

Section I. Neurologic Urgencies
1 Facial Droop • Resnick
2 Headache • Melamed and Rodon
3 Vertigo • Shufeldt
4 Acute Focal Neurologic Deficit • Toscano
5 Head Injury • Toscano
6 Altered Mental Status • Rodon and Rodon
7 Heat and Cold Urgencies • Lathrop and Shufeldt
Section II. Head, Eye, Ear, Nose, and Throat Urgencies
8 Epistaxis • Rhodes
9 Acute Eye Trauma • Buzzard
10 Acute Vision Loss • Buzzard
11 The Acute Nontraumatic Red Eye • Buzzard
12 Otitis Media • Davidoff
13 Sinusitis • Davidoff
14 Dental Injuries and Pain • McNeeley
15 Sore Throat • Gluckman
Section III. Respiratory Urgencies
16 Wheezing and Asthma • Ernst
17 Dyspnea • Davidoff
18 Respiratory Tract Infections • Toscano
19 Acute Exacerbations of Chronic Bronchitis • Ernst
Section IV. Cardiac Urgencies
20 Syncope • Iserson
21 Chest Pain • Weinstock
22 Palpitations • Barkoudah and Debold-Hawley
23 Peripheral Edema • Collins
Section V. Gastrointestinal Urgencies
24 Nausea, Vomiting, and Diarrhea in the Adult Patient • Gluckman
25 Abdominal Pain in the Adult Patient • Scheufele
26 Gastrointestinal Bleeding • Collins
Section VI. Genitourinary Urgencies
27 Dysuria and Urinary Tract Infections in the Adult Patient • Gibson
28 Dysuria and Urinary Tract Infections in the Pediatric Patient • Gibson
29 Flank Pain and Kidney Stones • Gluckman
Section VII. Orthopedic, Environmental, and Traumatic Urgencies
30 Neck Pain • Erickson and Shufeldt
31 Ankle and Foot Pain and Injury • Truax
32 Lower Extremity Pain and Injury • Prior, Speer, and Shufeldt
33 Shoulder and Upper Extremity Pain and Injury • Szerlip and Zimmer
34 Hand and Wrist Pain and Injury • Simela and Zimmer
35 Chest Wall and Other Thoracic Trauma • McNeeley
36 Facial Injuries • McNeeley
37 Laceration Repair and Wound Management • Bhoga
38 Needlesticks • Erickson and Shufeldt
39 Bites and Stings • Shufeldt
40 Back Pain • Burger
Section VIII. Gynecologic and Obstetric Urgencies
41 Vaginal Bleeding • Sunshine
42 Sexually Transmitted Infections • Sunshine
Section IX. Dermatologic Urgencies
43 Common Dermatologic Conditions • Shuman and Hogencamp
44 Urticaria and Angioedema • Knauer
45 Skin and Soft-Tissue Infections • Miller and Newgent
46 Contact Dermatitis • Nedorost
47 Burns • Davidoff
Section X. Pediatric Urgencies
48 Respiratory Difficulty in the Pediatric Patient • Rose
49 Vomiting and Diarrhea in the Pediatric Patient • Graae
50 Upper Respiratory Infections in the Pediatric Patient • Chavda
51 Abdominal Pain in the Pediatric Patient • Schor
52 Limp in the Pediatric Patient • Gilmore
53 Upper and Lower Extremity Injuries in the Pediatric Patient • Gilmore
54 Fever Without a Source in the Pediatric Patient • Kilbane
55 Foreign Bodies in the Pediatric Patient • Bacevice
56 Excessive Crying in Infants • Hogencamp
Section XI. Toxicologic and Medication-Related Urgencies
57 The Drug-Seeking Patient • Mark Rogers
58 Toxicologic Urgencies • Timothy B. Erickson and Timothy J. Meehan
59 Anaphylaxis • Knauer
Section XII. Nonspecific Urgencies
60 Fatigue and Generalized Weakness • Weinstock
Section XIII. Mental Health Urgencies
61 Psychiatric Urgencies • Brown