ABC of Emergency Differential Diagnosis (ABC Series)

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. ABC Emergency Differential Diagnosis......Page 5 Contributors......Page 9 Preface......Page 10 01 Unconsciousness and Coma......Page 11 02 Calf Pain......Page 15 03 Chest Pain – Cardiac......Page 19 04 High Fever......Page 23 05 Vaginal Bleeding......Page 28 06 Transient Weakness......Page 32 07 Abdominal Pain – Epigastric......Page 36 08 Acute Headache......Page 40 09 Acutely Painful Joint......Page 44 10 Chest Pain – Pleuritic......Page 47 11 Dizziness......Page 51 12 The Intoxicated Patient......Page 58 13 The Shocked Patient......Page 62 14 Palpitations......Page 67 15 Low Back Pain......Page 70 16 Acute Confusion......Page 74 17 Shortness of Breath......Page 78 18 Collapse of Unknown Cause......Page 82 19 Abdominal Pain......Page 86 Index......Page 91 Unconsciousness and coma / Roger Dalton Calf pain / Francis Morris and Alan Fletcher Chest pain : cardiac / Nicki Doddridge High fever / Rachel Foster Vaginal bleeding / Sian Ireland and Karen Selby Transient weakness / Carole Gavin Abdominal pain : epigastric / Duncan Drury Acute headache / Tom Locker Acutely painful joint / Rachel Tattersall Chest pain : pleuritic / Claire Gardner and Kevin Jones Dizziness / Scott Davison The intoxicated patient / Sue Croft Shocked patient / Arun Chaudhuri Palpitations / Charles Heatley Low back pain / Richard Kendall Acute confusion / Steven Goodacre Shortness of breath / Kevin Jones and Claire Gardner Collapse of unknown cause / Peter Lawson Abdominal pain / Sue Mason and Alistair Pickering.