My Wish Lists Login / Join

Signs and Symptoms in Emergency Med 2nd edition

By: Davis, Votey

Write A Review

Paperback | 12 June 2006 | Edition Number 2

At a Glance

Paperback
704 Pages

Edition Type
Revised

Dimensions(cm)
17.78 x 11.43 x 2.21

Paperback

RRP $107.95

$97.75

or 4 interest-free payments of $24.44 with

Ships in 5 to 7 business days

Current and concise, the updated and revised 2nd Edition of this pocket-sized reference reflects the substantial changes shaping the evaluation and treatment of many emergency conditions today. Its unique "signs and symptoms" approach offers the quickest possible way to diagnose critical conditions in an emergency situation. Organized around presenting symptoms, it can be used in real time to answer patient care questions. Diagnoses are listed in order of their severity in each chapter, with the symptoms, signs, suggested workup, and patient disposition given for each diagnosis.

Uses a symptom-based approach for quick diagnosis.
Features an outline format for real-time reference.
Focuses on the 200 conditions most frequently encountered in the emergency room.
Presents a useful tool for evaluating the likelihood that a specific symptom - or symptoms - denotes a particular disease, and allows the reader to initiate an appropriate treatment.

Includes new chapters on emergency situations involving biological, chemical, and radiation terrorism ï½ chapters devoted to the challenges presented by patients with AIDS and those with organ transplants ï½ two chapters on environmental emergencies ï½ one chapter examining heat illness, hypothermia, and submersion injury ï½ and a chapter on envenomations.
Features expanded "Treatment Considerations" sections.

Shipping

	Standard Shipping	Express Shipping
Metro postcodes:	$9.99	$14.95
Regional postcodes:	$9.99	$14.95
Rural postcodes:	$9.99	$14.95

Orders over $79.00 qualify for free shipping.

How to return your order

At Booktopia, we offer hassle-free returns in accordance with our returns policy. If you wish to return an item, please get in touch with Booktopia Customer Care.

Additional postage charges may be applicable.

Defective items

If there is a problem with any of the items received for your order then the Booktopia Customer Care team is ready to assist you.

For more info please visit our Help Centre.

You Can Find This Book In

Non-Fiction Medicine Other Branches of Medicine Accident & Emergency Medicine Clinical & Internal Medicine Nursing & Ancillary Services Nursing Nursing Specialities Accident & Emergency Nursing First Aid & Paramedical Services

Abdominal Pain
Agitation and Psychosis
AIDS
The Alcoholic Patient
Back Pain, Lower
Back Pain, Upper
Biological Terrorism
Bleeding
Chemical Terrorism
Chest Pain
Dizziness (Vertigo)
Ear Pain
Envenomations
Extremity Pain and Numbness
Eye Pain and Redness
Fever (Elevated Temperature)
Fever in Children Under 2 Years of Age
Fractures Not to Miss
Headache
Heat Illness, Hypothermia, and Submersion Injury
Hypotension
The Irritable Child and Vomiting
Jaundice
Joint Pain
Limping Child/Child Wont Walk
Mental Status Change and Coma
Neck Pain and Stiffness
Organ Transplantation
Palpitations and Tachycardia
Radiation Terrorism
Rash
Scrotal Pain
Seizure, Adult
Seizure, Pediatric
Shortness of Breath
Sore Throat
Syncope and Near-Syncope
Toxic Ingestion, Approach to
Trauma and Burns, Approach to
Vaginal Bleeding
Vision, Change in
Weakness and Fatigue
Appendixes
World Wide Web Resources and Decision Support
Emergency Drug Treatments
Pediatric Emergency References and Defibrillation and Cardioversion
Code Blue Unstable Stable
Reference Card
Table of Contents provided by Publisher. All Rights Reserved.

Signs and Symptoms in Emergency Med 2nd edition

At a Glance

Paperback

Shipping

How to return your order

Defective items

You Can Find This Book In

More in Accident & Emergency Medicine

Trauma Counseling

2nd Edition - Theories and Interventions for Managing Trauma, Stress, Crisis, and Disaster

The Body Keeps The Score

Mind, Brain and Body in the Transformation of Trauma

Toxicology Handbook

4th edition

Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) Therapy

Basic Principles, Protocols, and Procedures 3rd Edition

Trauma Trails : Recreating Song Lines

Recreating Song Lines

Out of the Ashes

A young woman's survival of White Island, and the mother's love that saved her

What My Bones Know

A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma

Healing the Fragmented Selves of Trauma Survivors

Overcoming Internal Self-Alienation

Saving Babies

Behind the Doors of the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit

Marshall & Ruedy's On Call

Principles & Protocols

Radiance in Pain and Resilience

The global reverberation of Palestinian historical trauma

When Trauma Affects Sex

An integrated and inclusive approach to understanding and treating individual and systemic trauma in sexual health therapy

The Body Remembers

The Psychophysiology of Trauma and Trauma Treatment

The Handbook of Trauma-Transformative Practice

Emerging Therapeutic Frameworks for Supporting Individuals, Families or Communities Impacted by Abuse and Violence

Critical Care Secrets

Secrets

Advanced Paediatric Life Support, Australia and New Zealand

The Practical Approach

Oh's Intensive Care Manual

Pharmacology for Anaesthesia and Intensive Care

5th Edition

ECGs for the Emergency Physician 1

You Went to Emergency for What?

Bizarre, bloody and baffling true stories from the hospital ED

Marino's The ICU Book

Print + eBook with Updates

You Made Me This Way

A powerful personal investigation into trauma, hope and healing from the author of the memoir Fourteen

Emergency Medicine

Diagnosis and Management 8th Edition

Care of the Acutely Ill Adult

2nd Edition - An Essential Guide for Nurses

This product is categorised by