This useful handbook provides a concise compilation of the evidence supporting diagnostic testing and clinical decision rules in emergency care. Clinical decision rules are now widely recognised as best practice for the ordering of diagnostic tests in the emergency department.
Aimed at all physicians working with emergency and acute patients, the book begins with an overview of how to evaluate a diagnostic test using an evidence-based approach, followed by an explanation of the clinical decision rules and the methods of assessing the strength and applicability of the clinical prediction rule.
These introductory chapters are followed by sections covering the following clinical areas:
* Traumatic Injuries
* Cardiology
* Infectious Disease
* Surgical and Abdominal Complaints
* Urology
* Neurology
* Ophthalmology, Hematology, Rheumatology
* Pulmonology.
For each test and clinical decision rule, the most current and best available studies in the literature are discussed and applied to emergency department and acute care patients in addressing the question at hand, followed by an overall recommendation on how to use the test or rule in the clinical context.
Evidence-Based Emergency Care is an accessible and extremely useful reference for physicians at all levels to use in applying an evidence-based approach to ordering and interpreting tests in an acute care environment.
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Evidence-Based Emergency Care
Diagnostic Testing and Clinical Decision Rules
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eBook - PDF
Evidence-Based Emergency Care
Diagnostic Testing and Clinical Decision Rules
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Table of contents
- Preface
- Foreword
- About the Authors
- SECTION 1 The Science of Diagnostic Testing and Clinical Decision Rules
- Chapter 1 Diagnostic Testing in Emergency Care
- Chapter 2 Evidence-Based Medicine: the Process
- Chapter 3 The Epidemiology and Statistics of Diagnostic Testing
- Chapter 4 Clinical Decision Rules
- SECTION 2 Traumatic Injuries
- Chapter 5 Cervical Spine Fractures
- Chapter 6 Cervical Spine Fractures in Older Adults
- Chapter 7 Cervical Spine Fractures in Children
- Chapter 8 Blunt Abdominal Trauma
- Chapter 9 Acute Knee Injuries
- Chapter 10 Blunt Head Injury
- Chapter 11 Blunt Head Trauma in Children
- Chapter 12 Acute Ankle and Foot Injuries
- Chapter 13 Occult Scaphoid Fractures
- Chapter 14 Blunt Chest Trauma
- Chapter 15 Occult Hip Fracture
- SECTION 3 Cardiology
- Chapter 16 Heart Failure
- Chapter 17 Syncope
- Chapter 18 Acute Coronary Syndrome
- SECTION 4 Infectious Disease
- Chapter 19 Serious Bacterial Infections and Occult Bacteremia in Children
- Chapter 20 Bacterial Meningitis in Children
- Chapter 21 Necrotizing Fasciitis
- Chapter 22 Pharyngitis
- Chapter 23 Infective Endocarditis
- Chapter 24 Urinary Tract Infection
- Chapter 25 Sinusitis
- Chapter 26 Pneumonia
- Chapter 27 Spontaneous Bacterial Peritonitis
- SECTION 5 Surgical and Abdominal Complaints
- Chapter 28 Acute Nonspecific, Nontraumatic Abdominal Pain
- Chapter 29 Bowel Obstruction
- Chapter 30 Acute Pancreatitis
- Chapter 31 Acute Appendicitis
- Chapter 32 Acute Cholecystitis
- SECTION 6 Urology
- Chapter 33 Kidney Stones
- Chapter 34 Testicular Torsion
- SECTION 7 Neurology
- Chapter 35 Subarachnoid Hemorrhage
- Chapter 36 Acute Stroke
- SECTION 8 Miscellaneous: Ophthalmology, Hematology, Rheumatology, and Pulmonology
- Chapter 37 Pulmonary Embolism and Deep Vein Thrombosis
- Chapter 38 Temporal Arteritis
- Chapter 39 Intraocular Pressure
- Chapter 40 Asthma
- Index
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