Blueprints clinical cases in emergency medicine
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Blueprints clinical cases in emergency medicine
（Blueprints clinical cases）
Blackwell Science, c2002
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Emergency medicine
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Be ready for both the Step 2 & 3 USMLE exams and those demanding questions during your rotations. The new Blueprints Clinical Cases series will be the answer to all of your needs! Written by residents and faculty, this series prepares you for even the most complex cases. *50 Symptom based clinical cases provide comprehensive USMLE review
*Built-in thought questions help you learn to diagnose using the critical thinking process
*Case-based learning presents an efficient manner of cataloguing symptoms, syndromes, and diseases
*200 questions replicate the computer format of the USMLE
Prepare for your future with the Blueprints Clinical Cases series!
Table of Contents
Patients presenting with traumatic injuries or orthopedic complaints. 1. Blow to the head.
2. Motor vehicle accident.
3. Gunshot wound.
4. Burn.
5. Dog bite.
6. Fall on an outstretched hand.
7. Dislocation.
8. Knee pain and fever.
Patients presenting with altered mental status, neurologic or psychiatric complaints.
9. Acute mental status change and headache.
10. Acute mental status change and fever.
11. Confusion and hyperthermia in an elderly man.
12. Bradycardia / hypothermia in a homeless alcoholic.
13. Fever, delerium, and seizure in a prisoner.
14. Ingestion.
15. Seizure.
16. Left-sided paralysis.
17. Dizziness.
18. Suicide attempt.
Patients presenting with cardiopulmonary complaints.
19. Chest pain.
20. Tearing chest and back pain.
21. Syncope.
22. Palpitations and lightheadedness.
23. Sudden collapse in a dialysis patient.
24. Shortness of breath and fatigue.
25. Shortness of breath and chest pain.
26. Chest pain and fever.
27. Shortness of breath and wheezing.
28. Difficulty breathing after an insect bite.
Patients presenting with ENT, upper respiratory, or febrile illness.
29. Acute vision loss.
30. Red eye.
31. Epistaxis.
32. Fever and sore throat.
33. Fever in an infant.
34. Barking cough in a child.
35. Dyspnea in a child.
Patients presenting with abdominal or gastrointestinal complaints.
36. Abdominal pain followed by unconsciousness.
37. Lower abdominal pain.
38. Right upper quadrant pain.
39. Left lower quadrant abdominal pain.
40. Diffuse abdominal pain with nausea / vomiting.
41. Weakness and vomiting.
42. Episodic irritability and vomiting in an infant.
43. Gastrointestinal bleeding.
Patients presenting with genitourinary or gynecologic complaints.
44. Left flank pain.
45. Scrotal pain.
46. Vaginal spotting and pelvic pain in pregnancy.
47. Sexual assault.
48. Acute lower abdominal pain in a young woman.
49. Pelvic pain.
50. Abnormal vaginal bleeding
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