Decision making in medicine : an algorithmic approach

✍ Scribed by II. Harry L. Greene (editor); Stuart B. Mushlin (editor)

• Publisher: Mosby Elsevier
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 748
• Edition: 3
• Category: Library

✦ Table of Contents

Cover page
Decision Making in Medicine An Algorithmic Approach Third Edition
ISBN 0323041078
SECTION EDITORS
CONTRIBUTORS
PREFACE
Table of CONTENTS
UNIT 1. GENERAL MEDICINE
Chapter 1. PREVENTION AND SCREENING
Chapter 2. FATIGUE
Chapter 3. INVOLUNTARY WEIGHT LOSS
Chapter 4. OBESITY
Chapter 5. SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION
Chapter 6. EDEMA
Chapter 7. CHRONIC PAIN
Chapter 8. PERSISTENT EXCESSIVE SWEATING
Chapter 9. THE RED EYE
Chapter 10. RHINITIS
Chapter 11. TINNITUS
Chapter 12. HEARING LOSS
Chapter 13. PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION
Chapter 14. FALLS IN GERIATRIC PATIENTS
Chapter 15. GERIATRIC FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT
UNIT 2. CARDIOLOGY
Chapter 16. BRADYCARDIA
Chapter 17. NARROW-COMPLEX TACHYCARDIA
Chapter 18. WIDE-COMPLEX TACHYCARDIA
Chapter 19. STABLE ANGINA
Chapter 20. UNSTABLE ANGINA/NON-ST-ELEVATION MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION
Chapter 21. SYSTOLIC MURMURS
Chapter 22. DIASTOLIC MURMURS
Chapter 23. HYPERTENSION
Chapter 24. HYPOTENSION
Chapter 25. PALPITATIONS
Chapter 26. SYNCOPE
Chapter 27. EVALUATION OF A NEW DIAGNOSIS OF CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE
Chapter 28. DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENT OF ACUTE PULMONARY EDEMA
Chapter 29. RIGHT VENTRICULAR FAILURE
Chapter 30. SUDDEN CARDIAC DEATH
Chapter 31. CARDIAC DYSPNEA
Chapter 32. ASSESSMENT AND INITIAL MANAGEMENT OF ST-SEGMENT ELEVATION MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION
Chapter 33. POST–MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION CARE AND COUNSELING
Chapter 34. CLAUDICATION
UNIT 3. DERMATOLOGY
Chapter 35. PIGMENTED LESIONS
Chapter 36. LEG ULCER
Chapter 37. URTICARIA
Chapter 38. GENERALIZED PRURITUS
Chapter 39. PALPABLE PURPURA
UNIT 4. ENDOCRINOLOGY
Chapter 40. HYPOGLYCEMIA
Chapter 41. HYPERGLYCEMIA
Chapter 42. HYPOCALCEMIA
Chapter 43. HYPERCALCEMIA
Chapter 44. TESTS OF THYROID FUNCTION
Chapter 45. HYPOTHYROIDISM
Chapter 46. HYPERTHYROIDISM
Chapter 47. GOITER
Chapter 48. THYROID NODULE
Chapter 49. THYROID PAIN
Chapter 50. SICK EUTHYROID SYNDROME
Chapter 51. THYROID FUNCTION TESTS IN NONTHYROIDAL ILLNESS
Chapter 52. ADRENAL INCIDENTALOMA
Chapter 53. CUSHING’S SYNDROME
Chapter 54. PITUITARY TUMOR
Chapter 55. HIRSUTISM
Chapter 56. GYNECOMASTIA
UNIT 5. GASTROENTEROLOGY
Chapter 57. ACUTE ABDOMINAL PAIN
Chapter 58. CHRONIC ABDOMINAL PAIN
Chapter 59. NAUSEA AND VOMITING
Chapter 60. ANOREXIA
Chapter 61. DYSPHAGIA
Chapter 62. HEARTBURN
Chapter 63. NONCARDIAC CHEST PAIN
Chapter 64. BELCHING
Chapter 65. DYSPEPSIA
Chapter 66. JAUNDICE
Chapter 67. ASCITES
Chapter 68. BILIARY COLIC
Chapter 69. GASTROINTESTINAL BLEEDING
Chapter 70. RECTAL BLEEDING
Chapter 71. ACUTE DIARRHEA
Chapter 72. CHRONIC DIARRHEA
Chapter 73. CONSTIPATION
Chapter 74. IRRITABLE BOWEL SYNDROME
Chapter 75. ANORECTAL PAIN
Chapter 76. POSITIVE FECAL OCCULT BLOOD TEST (FOBT)
Chapter 77. FLATULENCE
Chapter 78. FECAL INCONTINENCE
Chapter 79. ASYMPTOMATIC ABNORMAL LIVER AMINOTRANSFERASES
Chapter 80. ELEVATED SERUM IRON
Chapter 81. ELEVATED SERUM AMYLASE
UNIT 6. HEMATOLOGY/ONCOLOGY
Chapter 82. ANEMIA
Chapter 83. POLYCYTHEMIA
Chapter 84. NEUTROPHILIA
Chapter 85. LEUKOPENIA
Chapter 86. DEEP VENOUS THROMBOSIS
Chapter 87. COAGULATION ABNORMALITIES
Chapter 88. TRANSFUSION THERAPY: PLATELETS
Chapter 89. TRANSFUSION THERAPY: RED BLOOD CELLS
Chapter 90. TRANSFUSION THERAPY: GRANULOCYTES
Chapter 91. TRANSFUSION REACTIONS
Chapter 92. CLASSICAL HODGKIN’S LYMPHOMA
Chapter 93. CHRONIC MYELOGENOUS LEUKEMIA
Chapter 94. ABNORMAL SERUM PROTEIN ELECTROPHORESIS
Chapter 95. LYMPHADENOPATHY
Chapter 96. CARCINOMA OF UNKNOWN PRIMARY SITE (CUPS)
Chapter 97. NEUTROPENIA AND FEVER
Chapter 98. PATHOLOGIC FRACTURES
Chapter 99. CLINICAL CONSIDERATIONS FOR STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION
Chapter 100. LATE ISSUES FOR PATIENTS WHO SURVIVE THE INITIAL DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENT OF CANCER
Chapter 101. SUPERIOR VENA CAVAL SYNDROME
Chapter 102. SPINAL CORD COMPRESSION
Chapter 103. TRANSFUSION THERAPY: FRESH FROZEN PLASMA AND CRYOPRECIPITATE
UNIT 7. INFECTIOUS DISEASES
Chapter 104. FOREIGN TRAVEL: IMMUNIZATIONS AND INFECTIONS
Chapter 105. ACUTE AND SUBACUTE MENINGITIS
Chapter 106. CHRONIC MENINGITIS
Chapter 107. ASEPTIC MENINGITIS
Chapter 108. ENCEPHALITIS
Chapter 109. SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES
Chapter 110. APPROACH TO THE NEWLY DIAGNOSED HIV-POSITIVE PATIENT
Chapter 111. RESPIRATORY SYMPTOMS IN HIV-INFECTED PATIENTS
Chapter 112. CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM INFECTION IN THE PATIENT WITH HIV
Chapter 113. THE ACUTELY ILL PATIENT WITH HIV
Chapter 114. SEPSIS
Chapter 115. TOXIC SHOCK SYNDROMES
Chapter 116. STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS BACTEREMIA
Chapter 117. POSTEXPOSURE PROPHYLAXIS FOR HIV AND HEPATITIS B AND C
Chapter 118. FEVER OF UNKNOWN ORIGIN
UNIT 8. NEPHROLOGY
Chapter 119. CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE
Chapter 120. ACUTE RENAL FAILURE
Chapter 121. PROTEINURIA
Chapter 122. HEMATURIA
Chapter 123. KIDNEY STONES
Chapter 124. RENAL CYSTS AND MASSES
Chapter 125. METABOLIC ACIDOSIS
Chapter 126. METABOLIC ALKALOSIS
Chapter 127. HYPONATREMIA
Chapter 128. HYPERNATREMIA
Chapter 129. HYPOKALEMIA
Chapter 130. HYPERKALEMIA
Chapter 131. HYPOMAGNESEMIA
Chapter 132. HYPERMAGNESEMIA
Chapter 133. HYPOPHOSPHATEMIA
Chapter 134. CHOOSING A CHRONIC DIALYSIS MODALITY
Chapter 135. SELECTION OF PATIENTS FOR TRANSPLANTATION
Chapter 136. FEVER IN THE TRANSPLANT RECIPIENT
UNIT 9. NEUROLOGY
Chapter 137. ACUTE HEADACHE
Chapter 138. CHRONIC HEADACHE
Chapter 139. TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK AND STROKE EVALUATION
Chapter 140. TRANSIENT MONOCULAR VISUAL LOSS
Chapter 141. ACUTE STROKE
Chapter 142. STROKE TREATMENT AND PROPHYLAXIS
Chapter 143. MEMORY LOSS
Chapter 144. DIZZINESS
Chapter 145. SEIZURES
Chapter 146. STATUS EPILEPTICUS
Chapter 147. WEAKNESS
Chapter 148. GAIT DISTURBANCES
Chapter 149. TREMOR
Chapter 150. PARKINSON’S DISEASE
Chapter 151. PERIPHERAL NEUROPATHY
Chapter 152. HYPERKINESIAS
Chapter 153. MUSCLE CRAMPS AND ACHES
Chapter 154. ACUTE CONFUSIONAL STATE
Chapter 155. CHRONIC BEHAVIOR CHANGE
Chapter 156. DISTURBANCES OF SMELL AND TASTE
Chapter 157. COMA
Chapter 158. BRAIN DEATH
UNIT 10. OCULAR
Chapter 159. DILATED PUPIL
Chapter 160. CORNEAL ABRASION
Chapter 161. CONJUNCTIVITIS
Chapter 162. ACUTE VISUAL LOSS
UNIT 11. PULMONARY DISEASE
Chapter 163. HEMOPTYSIS
Chapter 164. STRIDOR
Chapter 165. WHEEZING
Chapter 166. COUGH
Chapter 167. DYSPNEA
Chapter 168. PLEURAL EFFUSION
Chapter 169. MEDIASTINAL LYMPHADENOPATHY
Chapter 170. SOLITARY PULMONARY NODULE
Chapter 171. MULTIPLE PULMONARY NODULES
Chapter 172. DIFFUSE INTERSTITIAL LUNG DISEASE
Chapter 173. POSITIVE TUBERCULIN SKIN TEST (PPD)
Chapter 174. RESPIRATORY SYMPTOMS AND OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE TO ASBESTOS
Chapter 175. ASTHMA
UNIT 12. RHEUMATOLOGY
Chapter 176. MONOARTICULAR ARTHRITIS
Chapter 177. POLYARTICULAR ARTHRITIS
Chapter 178. SERONEGATIVE ARTHRITIS
Chapter 179. SOFT-TISSUE PAIN
Chapter 180. NECK PAIN
Chapter 181. SHOULDER PAIN
Chapter 182. LOW BACK PAIN
Chapter 183. HIP PAIN
Chapter 184. HAND AND WRIST PAIN
Chapter 185. KNEE PAIN
Chapter 186. FOOT PAIN
Chapter 187. SCLERODERMA
Chapter 188. DRY EYES AND DRY MOUTH (SJÖGREN’S SYNDROME)
Chapter 189. RAYNAUD’S PHENOMENON
Chapter 190. LOW BONE DENSITY
Chapter 191. HYPERURICEMIA AND GOUT
Chapter 192. DIFFUSE MUSCLE PAIN AND STIFFNESS: POLYMYALGIA RHEUMATICA AND GIANT CELL ARTERITIS
Chapter 193. JOINT HYPERMOBILITY
Chapter 194. TEMPOROMANDIBULAR PAIN
Chapter 195. ANTINUCLEAR ANTIBODY TEST
Chapter 196. ELEVATED SERUM ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE LEVEL
Chapter 197. ELEVATED CREATINE KINASE LEVEL
UNIT 13. UROLOGY
Chapter 198. SCROTAL MASS
Chapter 199. BENIGN PROSTATIC HYPERTROPHY
Chapter 200. PROSTATITIS
Chapter 201. URINARY INCONTINENCE
Chapter 202. URINATY RETENTION
UNIT 14. WOMEN’S HEALTH
Chapter 203. VAGINAL DISCHARGE
Chapter 204. CERVICITIS
Chapter 205. SECONDARY AMENORRHEA
Chapter 206. ABNORMAL VAGINAL BLEEDING
Chapter 207. VAGINAL BLEEDING IN PREGNANCY
Chapter 208. ACUTE ABDOMINAL PAIN IN WOMEN
Chapter 209. CHEST PAIN IN WOMEN
Chapter 210. URINARY TRACT INFECTION IN WOMEN
Chapter 211. BREAST MASS
Chapter 212. ADJUVANT THERAPY CHOICES IN BREAST CANCER
Chapter 213. NIPPLE DISCHARGE
Chapter 214. ABNORMAL PAP SMEAR
Chapter 215. PREMENSTRUAL DYSPHORIC DISORDER
Chapter 216. CONTRACEPTIVE CHOICES
Chapter 217. USE OF ORAL CONTRACEPTIVES
Chapter 218. FEMALE INFERTILITY
Chapter 219. DOMESTIC VIOLENCE
Chapter 220. ECTOPIC PREGNANCY
Chapter 221. OSTEOPOROSIS AND OSTEOPENIA
UNIT 15. EMERGENCY MEDICINE
Chapter 222. ACUTE PULSELESS EXTREMITY
Chapter 223. FOREIGN BODY INGESTION
Chapter 224. CAUSTIC INGESTION AND EXPOSURE
Chapter 225. MAMMAL BITES
Chapter 226. SNAKE VENOM POISONING
Chapter 227. HYPOTHERMIA
Chapter 228. SUBMERSION
UNIT 16. BEHAVIORAL MEDICINE
Chapter 229. ALCOHOLISM
Chapter 230. ANXIETY
Chapter 231. DEPRESSION
Chapter 232. EMOTIONAL DISORDERS WITH SOMATIC EXPRESSION
Chapter 233. GRIEF
Chapter 234. PSYCHOSIS
Chapter 235. SMOKING CESSATION
Chapter 236. SUICIDAL PATIENT
UNIT 17. PHARMACOLOGY
Chapter 237. ACUTE ANTICOAGULATION
Chapter 238. LONG-TERM ANTICOAGULATION
Chapter 239. ANAPHYLAXIS
Chapter 240. EVALUATION OF ADVERSE DRUG REACTIONS
Chapter 241. ANTIMICROBIAL PROPHYLAXIS IN SURGICAL PATIENTS
Chapter 242. CHOOSING APPROPRIATE ANTIMICROBIAL THERAPY
Chapter 243. USE AND MONITORING OF AMINOGLYCOSIDE ANTIBIOTICS
Chapter 244. USE AND EVALUATION OF SERUM DRUG LEVELS
Chapter 245. USE AND EVALUATION OF VANCOMYCIN SERUM DRUG LEVEL
INDEX
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