Jonathan r callahan (7 resultados)

PAP. Condición: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Condición: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

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Paperback. Condición: New. 224 pages.

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Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. In emergency medicine, the greatest diagnostic risk often lies in the patient who initially appears stable: a familiar complaint, a partially reassuring examination, normal or near-normal vital signs, or an early test that seems to support discharge. The clinician's advantage comes from recognizing the details that change risk, reassessing when the expected course does not occur, and knowing when uncertainty itself should alter escalation or disposition.Emergency Medicine Red Flags & High-Risk Presentations is a premium full-color clinical reference built around one essential question: What am I at risk of missing?Organized around the presentations clinicians encounter every day, the book examines chest pain, dyspnea, abdominal pain, headache, syncope, dizziness, focal neurologic symptoms, altered mental status, fever, back pain, bleeding, trauma, pregnancy-related emergencies, visual disturbance, limb symptoms, vomiting, palpitations, intoxication, and other high-risk encounters. Dedicated chapters also address children, older adults, immunocompromised patients, return visits, apparently normal vital signs, negative tests, and unexpected deterioration.Throughout the reference, the emphasis remains on clinical recognition, diagnostic discrimination, reassessment, escalation, and safe disposition. Each presentation is examined through the findings and decisions that materially change risk rather than through exhaustive disease summaries.Inside, readers will find: - High-risk alternatives and red-flag findings that help distinguish common presentations from time-sensitive cardiovascular, neurologic, vascular, infectious, traumatic, surgical, obstetric, and systemic emergencies.- Diagnostic traps and sources of false reassurance, including atypical presentations, compensated physiology, limitations of early testing, misleading normal findings, anchoring, premature closure, and discordance between the working diagnosis and the clinical picture.- Reassessment and deterioration frameworks showing how serial vital signs, repeat examination, treatment response, evolving symptoms, changing laboratory data, and return presentations should modify diagnostic reasoning.- Escalation and disposition guidance addressing observation, specialist consultation, monitored care, admission, transfer, and the circumstances in which residual uncertainty makes discharge unsafe.High-quality full-color clinical diagrams reinforce major diagnostic pathways, danger patterns, anatomic relationships, reassessment strategies, and escalation decisions throughout the book.Written for emergency physicians, trainees, acute-care clinicians, and advanced practice professionals, this reference is designed to strengthen the transition from simply identifying a plausible diagnosis to determining whether that diagnosis is sufficiently secure for the decision that follows.Recognize hidden risk earlier. Reassess with purpose. Escalate when the trajectory changes. Make disposition a clinical decision, not an endpoint. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…