ABC of emergency differential diagnosis [E-Book]

01 Unconsciousness and Coma; 02 Calf Pain; 03 Chest Pain - Cardiac; 04 High Fever; 05 Vaginal Bleeding; 06 Transient Weakness; 07 Abdominal Pain - Epigastric; 08 Acute Headache; 09 Acutely Painful Joint; 10 Chest Pain - Pleuritic; 11 Dizziness; 12 The Intoxicated Patient; 13 The Shocked Patient; 14 Palpitations; 15 Low Back Pain; 16 Acute Confusion; 17 Shortness of Breath; 18 Collapse of Unknown Cause; 19 Abdominal Pain.

A practical guide to the diagnosis and treatment of acute symptoms and conditions, the ABC of Emergency Differential Diagnosis provides a step-by-step guide to emergency differential diagnosis for non-specialists in a hospital or primary care setting. This new title in the ABC series covers the assessment, diagnosis, treatment, and management of the most common symptoms with 'walk through' diagnosis, clear learning outcomes, and easy to find treatment options. Using the familiar problem-based teaching approach for rapid assimilation of information, case studies in each chapter allow the reader to be sure that they have synthesised the information given and can apply it to clinical cases.