Ebook: Emergencies in the outpatient setting, Part 2

Primary care physicians must be prepared to face urgent and emergent patient complaints and presentations in the office. How do you prepare your office for an emergency? What conditions can and should be treated in the office without the need to transport the patient? What entities require urgent/emergent transfer to the Emergency Department? What are some of the "can't miss" entities that primary are physicians should be familiar with? These are just some of the critical questions this issue of the Medical Clinics of North America on Emergencies in the Outpatient Setting will answer. Crucial updated information is provided about emergencies relating to acute abdominal pain, severe hypertension, orthopaedic trauma and major joint injury, dyspnea, arrhythmia, dizziness and vertigo, severe headache, angina pectoris, back pain, and otolaryngological emergencies