Main description:

Improve and streamline the diagnostic decision-making process in emergency care

The newly revised third edition of Evidence-Based Emergency Care: Diagnostic Testing and Clinical Decision Rules offers an updated review of the evidence and expert discussion of relevant issues in diagnostic testing in the everyday practice of emergency medicine. This book also provides a detailed overview of the science of diagnostic testing and reviews the process behind the development of clinical decision rules. The focus is asking and answering practical questions using original research studies, while commenting on the best available evidence for relevant clinical topics.

Readers will also find:

Comprehensive explorations of COVID-19, telemedicine, trauma, cardiology, infectious disease, and surgical and abdominal complaints
Practical discussions of urology, neurology, hematology, ophthalmology, pulmonology, rheumatology, and geriatric medicine
Exploration of practice and policy considerations of testing in an era of limited resources

The book is perfect for emergency medicine physicians, nurses, and other allied health professionals. Readers of Evidence-Based Emergency Care: Diagnostic Testing and Clinical Decision Rules, Third Edition will also earn a place in the libraries of administrators and managers in healthcare settings seeking to optimize the use of scarce resources while maintaining the highest standards of care.

Contents:

List of contributors

Foreword

Preface

Acknowledgements

Section 1: The Science of Diagnostic Testing and Clinical Decision Rules

1. Diagnostic Testing in Emergency Care

2. Evidence Based Medicine: The Process

3. The Epidemiology and Statistics of Diagnostic Testing

4. Clinical Decision Rules

5. Appropriate Testing in an Era of Limited Resources: Practice and Policy Consideration

6. Understanding Bias in Diagnostic Research

Section 2: Trauma

7. Cervical Spine Fractures

8. Blunt Abdominal Trauma

9. Acute Knee Injuries

10. Acute Ankle and Foot Injuries

11. Blunt Head Injury in Children

12. Adult Blunt Head Injury

13. Chest Trauma

14. Occult Hip Fracture

15. Blunt Soft Tissue Neck Trauma

16. Occult Scaphoid Fractures

17. Penetrating Abdominal Trauma

18. Penetrating Trauma to the Extremities and Vascular Injuries

19. Heart Failure

20. Syncope

21. Chest Pain

22. Palpitations

23. Bacterial Meningitis in Children

24. Serious Bacterial Infections in Children Aged 0 to 60/90 days

25. Necrotizing Soft Tissue Infection

26. Infective Endocarditis

27. Pharyngitis

28. Rhinosinusitis

29. Pneumonia

30. Urinary Tract Infection

31. Sepsis

32. Adult Septic Arthritis

33. Osteomyelitis

34. Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs)

35. Influenza

36. Fever Without a Source 3 to 36 Months

37. Acute, Nonspecific, Nontraumatic Abdominal Pain

38. Small Bowel Obstruction

39. Acute Pancreatitis

40. Acute Appendicitis

41. Acute Chloecystitis

42. Aortic Emergencies

43. Ovarian Torsion

44. Nephrolithiasis

45. Testicular Torsion

46. Nontraumatic Subarachnoid Hemorrhage

47. Acute Stroke

48. Transient Ischemic Attack

49. First Episode Seizure

50. Pulmonary Embolism

51. Deep Vein Thrombosis

52. Temporal Arteritis

53. Intraocular Pressure

54. Asthma

55. Acute Low Back Pain

56. Intravascular Volume Status

57. Geriatric Screening

58. Skin and Soft Tissue Infections

59. Shared Decision Making in Diagnostic Testing

60. Cognitive Biases and Mitigations and Strategies in Emergency Diagnosis

61. Diagnosis in Telemedicine

62. Diagnosising COVID-19