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Urgent Care Medicine Secrets

  • 2nd Edition - January 29, 2024
  • Latest edition
  • Editors: Robert P. Olympia, Rory O'Neill, Matthew L. Silvis
  • Language: English

For more than 30 years, the highly regarded Secrets Series® has provided students and practitioners in all areas of health care with concise, focused, and engaging resources for qu… Read more

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For more than 30 years, the highly regarded Secrets Series® has provided students and practitioners in all areas of health care with concise, focused, and engaging resources for quick reference and exam review. Urgent Care Medicine Secrets, 2nd Edition, offers practical, up-to-date coverage of the full range of essential topics in this dynamic field. This highly regarded resource features the Secrets’ popular question-and-answer format that also includes lists, tables, pearls, memory aids, and an easy-to-read style – making inquiry, reference, and review quick, easy, and enjoyable.

Key features

  • The proven Secrets Series® format gives you the most return for your time – succinct, easy to read, engaging, and highly effective
  • Fully revised and updated throughout, covering the full range of topics for understanding today’s practice of adult and pediatric urgent care—essential information for physicians, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants
  • Provides an evidence-based approach to medical and traumatic complaints presenting to urgent care centers, focusing on presenting signs and symptoms, differential diagnosis, office management, and when to refer for higher level of care
  • New chapters on Head and Neck Trauma, Chest and Abdominal Trauma, Toxicology, Diagnostic Imaging, Obstetrical Complaints, and more
  • Top 100 Secrets and Key Points boxes provide a fast overview of the secrets you must know for success in practice and on exams
  • Clear illustrations, figures, and flow diagrams expedite reference and review
  • Portable size makes it easy to carry with you for quick reference or review anywhere, anytime
  • An eBook version is included with purchase. The eBook allows you to access all of the text, figures, and references, with the ability to search, customize your content, make notes and highlights, and have content read aloud

Readership

Family medicine residents; NPs, PAs

Table of contents

I General Concepts in Urgent Care Medicine

1. URGENT CARE MEDICINE: THE PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE

2. THE BUSINESS OF URGENT CARE

3. OFFICE EMERGENCY AND DISASTER PREPAREDNESS

4. ADULT EMERGENCIES PRESENTING TO URGENT CARE CENTERS

5. PEDIATRIC EMERGENCIES PRESENTING TO URGENT CARE CENTERS

II Adult Urgent Care Medicine

6. HEADACHE AND NEUROLOGIC COMPLAINTS

7. RED EYE, EYE PAIN, AND VISION LOSS

8. EAR, NOSE, AND THROAT

9. DENTAL AND MOUTH PAIN

10. COUGH, SHORTNESS OF BREATH, AND CHEST PAIN

11. ABDOMINAL PAIN, NAUSEA, VOMITING, AND DIARRHEA

12. GENITOURINARY COMPLAINTS

13. GYNECOLOGIC COMPLAINTS

14. RASHES AND SKIN INFECTIONS

15. HEAD AND NECK TRAUMA

16. CHEST AND ABDOMINAL TRAUMA

17. MUSCULOSKELETAL PRESENTATIONS

18. INFECTIOUS DISEASE ISSUES

III Pediatric Urgent Care Medicine

19. FEVER

20. HEADACHE

21. EYE COMPLAINTS

22. EAR PAIN, NASAL CONGESTION, AND SORE THROAT

23. NECK PAIN AND MASSES

24. COUGH

25. CHEST PAIN

26. ABDOMINAL PAIN

27. NAUSEA, VOMITING, DIARRHEA, AND DEHYDRATION

28. URINARY AND UROLOGIC COMPLAINTS

29. VAGINAL COMPLAINTS

30. SKIN RASHES AND INFECTIONS

31. LIMP

32. HEAD AND NECK TRAUMA

33. CHEST AND ABDOMINAL TRAUMA

34. EXTREMITY TRAUMA

35. COMMON NEWBORN COMPLAINTS

IV Sports-Related Complaints

36. CONCUSSION

37. ACUTE NECK PAIN

38. ACUTE LOW BACK PAIN

39. EVALUATION AND MANAGEMENT OF ACUTE SPRAINS AND STRAINS

40. OVERUSE APOPHYSEAL INJURIES

41. THE ACUTELY INJURED SHOULDER

42. FOOSH (FALL ON OUTSTRETCHED HAND) INJURIES

43. ACUTE FINGER AND WRIST INJURIES

44. THE ACUTELY SWOLLEN KNEE

45. THE ACUTELY LIMPING CHILD

46. ANKLE SPRAINS

47. ENVIRONMENTAL EMERGENCIES

48. ACUTE INFECTIOUS DISEASES AND THE ATHLETE

49. WHEN TO IMAGE FOR SPORTS-RELATED COMPLAINTS

V Procedures

50. WOUND ASSESSMENT, BURNS, AND ANIMAL BITES

51. LACERATION REPAIR

52. FRACTURE AND DISLOCATION REDUCTIONS

53. SPLINTING AND CASTING

54. ABSCESS INCISION AND DRAINAGE

55. FOREIGN BODY REMOVAL

56. DENTAL AND ORAL COMPLAINTS AND PROCEDURES

57. ANALGESIA AND SEDATION

VI Miscellaneous

58. MENTAL HEALTH URGENCIES

59. TOXICOLOGY

60. TRAVEL MEDICINE

61. DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING: GENERAL CONCEPTS

62. DIAGNOSTIC ULTRASOUND

63. OBSTETRICAL COMPLAINTS

Product details

  • Edition: 2
  • Latest edition
  • Published: February 9, 2024
  • Language: English

About the editors

RO

Robert P. Olympia

Affiliations and expertise
Professor, Departments of Emergency Medicine & Pediatrics, Penn State College of Medicine, Assistant Director of Research, Department of Emergency Medicine, Attending Physician, Department of Emergency Medicine, Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center/ Penn State Children's Hospital Department of Emergency Medicine, Hershey, Pennsylvania, USA

RO

Rory O'Neill

Affiliations and expertise
Owner and Chief Operating Officer, All Better Care Urgent Care Centers, USA

MS

Matthew L. Silvis

Affiliations and expertise
Associate Chief Medical Officer, Primary Care, Penn State Hershey, Program Director, Penn State Primary Care Sports Medicine Fellowship, Hershey, Professor, Departments of Family and Community Medicine & Orthopedics and Rehabilitation, Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, Hershey, Pennsylvania, USA