Admission and Discharge Decisions in Emergency Medicine

Author: Leonard R. Frank
Published: August 2001
Publisher: Elsevier - Health Sciences Division
ISBN: 1560534125
Paperback Book
Number of Pages: 435

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Clinicians and researchers in emergency medicine report to practitioners some recent research on making the decision on whether someone in the emergency room should be admitted as a patient to the hospital or patched up and sent home. Each of them focuses on a specific diagnosis or set of diagnoses, explains research and clinical consensus on whom to admit, and discusses current standards of care.

Table of Contents
1 Atrial Fibrillation 1
2 Supraventricular Tachycardia 7
3 Syncope 12
4 Venous Thromboembolism 17
5 Acute Coronary Ischemia 23
6 Pericarditis 28
7 Congestive Heart Failure 32
8 Implantable Cardioverter-Defibrillators 35
9 Erythema Multiforme 39
10 Diabetic Emergencies 45
11 Thyroid Disorders 50
12 Gastroenteritis 55
13 Esophageal Obstruction 59
14 Gastrointestinal Bleeding 65
15 Diverticulitis 69
16 Cholelithiasis and Cholecystitis 73
17 Appendicitis 78
18 Abdominal Pain of Unclear Etiology 83
19 Hernias 89
20 Sickle Cell Disease 95
21 Anemia 100
22 Neutropenic Fever 105
23 Spinal Cord Compression 110
24 Thrombocytopenia and Coagulopathies 116
25 Fever in Adults 121
26 Meningitis 125
27 Human Immunodeficiency Virus-Infected Patients 130
28 Wound and Skin Infections 136
29 Home Use of Intravenous Antibiotics 139
30 Fever in the Intravenous Drug User 143
31 Transient Ischemic Attack 147
32 Subarachnoid Hemorrhage 152
33 Acute Stroke 157
34 Multiple Sclerosis Exacerbations 161
35 Seizures 165
36 Pelvic Inflammatory Disease 171
37 Ectopic Pregnancy 176
38 Traumatic Hyphema 183
39 Orbital and Periorbital Infections 187
40 Hip Fractures 191
41 Back Pain 195
42 Angioedema 201
43 Epistaxis 205
44 Neck and Dental Infections 209
45 Fever in Infants 213
46 Febrile Children 3 to 36 Months Old 217
47 Croup 223
48 Pediatric Urinary Tract Infections 228
49 Pediatric Pneumonia 232
50 Pediatric Asthma 237
51 Pediatric Dehydration 242
52 Bronchiolitis 246
53 Suicide 251
54 Conversion Disorder and Malingering 256
55 Acute Psychosis 261
56 Asthma 265
57 Adult Community-Acquired Pneumonia 271
58 Spontaneous Pneumothorax 277
59 Pyelonephritis 281
60 Urolithiasis 285
61 Disorders of Serum Sodium 289
62 Disorders of Potassium 294
63 Disorders of Magnesium 298
64 Disorders of Serum Calcium 303
65 Disorders of Serum Phosphate 307
66 Complications of Vascular Access Devices 310
67 Continuous Ambulatory Peritoneal Dialysis Peritonitis 314
68 Renal Failure 317
69 Acetaminophen Poisoning 323
70 Salicylate Poisoning 327
71 Cardiac Medication Toxicity 331
72 Toxic Alcohols: Methanol and Ethylene Glycol 339
73 Iron Poisoning 344
74 Lead Poisoning 348
75 Tricyclic Antidepressant Overdose 352
76 Lithium Toxicity 357
77 Phenytoin and Phenobarbital Toxicity 362
78 Other Antiepileptic Medication Toxicity 366
79 Cocaine Toxicity 372
80 Theophylline Toxicity 377
81 Carbon Monoxide Poisoning 382
82 Minor Head Injury 385
83 Cardiac Contusion 391
84 Trauma in Pregnancy 397
85 Near-Drowning 401
86 Burns 405
87 Alcohol Withdrawal 411
88 Anaphylaxis 415
89 Transplant Patients 418
Index 423

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