This text provides essential, practical guidance for handling the most common emergencies presenting in person or by telephone in primary care offices and urgent care centers. The authors - primary care and emergency medicine physicians - focus on the essential information needed to triage and treat both adults and children. Concise chapters, organized by presenting problem rather than diagnosis, allow for rapid reference.

Contents

1. Airway Obstruction
2. Asthma
3. Cardiac Ischemia
4. Chest Pain
5. Acute Shortness of Breath
6. Hypertensive Urgencies
7. Vascular Emergencies
8. Coma and Altered Mental Status
9. Seizures
10. Psychosis
11. Acute Abdominal Pain
12. Gastrointestinal Bleeding
13. Orthopedic Urgencies
14. First Trimester Emergencies
15. Third Trimester Emergencies
16. Precipitous Delivery
17. Infectious Emergencies
18. Head and Neck Emergencies
19. Spinal Injury
20. Hyper/Hypoglycemia
21. Electrolyte Disturbances
22. Anaphylaxis
23. Toxicology
24. Bioterrorism
25. Environmental Emergencies
26. EMS