Urgent Care Emergencies - 9780470657720

This on-the-job reference for medical professionals working in urgent care, emergency room, or other settings provides management tips and cautions against pitfalls of various medications and procedures for conditions often seen in urgent care settings. There is special emphasis on determining whether the patient is actually in more serious condition that needs immediate emergency attention. Featuring a reader-friendly layout, key fact boxes, and b&w images, the book covers management of genitourinary complains, orthopedic pitfalls of the upper and lower extremity, orthopedic pitfalls of pediatrics, and pitfalls of wound management, in addition to emergency dermatology for the acute care provider, management of common infections, headache, evaluation and management of back pain, and pediatric and geriatric pitfalls. Final chapters review pharmacology pitfalls and pearls in urgent care medicine and offer basic guidelines for effective communication in urgent care. Goyal teaches emergency medicine at the Mayo Clinic. Mattu teaches emergency medicine at the University of Maryland Annotation ©2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)