Decision making in medicine : an algorithmic approach

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Cover page Decision Making in Medicine An Algorithmic Approach Third Edition ISBN 0323041078 SECTION EDITORS CONTRIBUTORS PREFACE Table of CONTENTS UNIT 1. GENERAL MEDICINE Chapter 1. PREVENTION AND SCREENING Chapter 2. FATIGUE Chapter 3. INVOLUNTARY WEIGHT LOSS Chapter 4. OBESITY Chapter 5. SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION Chapter 6. EDEMA Chapter 7. CHRONIC PAIN Chapter 8. PERSISTENT EXCESSIVE SWEATING Chapter 9. THE RED EYE Chapter 10. RHINITIS Chapter 11. TINNITUS Chapter 12. HEARING LOSS Chapter 13. PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION Chapter 14. FALLS IN GERIATRIC PATIENTS Chapter 15. GERIATRIC FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT UNIT 2. CARDIOLOGY Chapter 16. BRADYCARDIA Chapter 17. NARROW-COMPLEX TACHYCARDIA Chapter 18. WIDE-COMPLEX TACHYCARDIA Chapter 19. STABLE ANGINA Chapter 20. UNSTABLE ANGINA/NON-ST-ELEVATION MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION Chapter 21. SYSTOLIC MURMURS Chapter 22. DIASTOLIC MURMURS Chapter 23. HYPERTENSION Chapter 24. HYPOTENSION Chapter 25. PALPITATIONS Chapter 26. SYNCOPE Chapter 27. EVALUATION OF A NEW DIAGNOSIS OF CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE Chapter 28. DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENT OF ACUTE PULMONARY EDEMA Chapter 29. RIGHT VENTRICULAR FAILURE Chapter 30. SUDDEN CARDIAC DEATH Chapter 31. CARDIAC DYSPNEA Chapter 32. ASSESSMENT AND INITIAL MANAGEMENT OF ST-SEGMENT ELEVATION MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION Chapter 33. POST–MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION CARE AND COUNSELING Chapter 34. CLAUDICATION UNIT 3. DERMATOLOGY Chapter 35. PIGMENTED LESIONS Chapter 36. LEG ULCER Chapter 37. URTICARIA Chapter 38. GENERALIZED PRURITUS Chapter 39. PALPABLE PURPURA UNIT 4. ENDOCRINOLOGY Chapter 40. HYPOGLYCEMIA Chapter 41. HYPERGLYCEMIA Chapter 42. HYPOCALCEMIA Chapter 43. HYPERCALCEMIA Chapter 44. TESTS OF THYROID FUNCTION Chapter 45. HYPOTHYROIDISM Chapter 46. HYPERTHYROIDISM Chapter 47. GOITER Chapter 48. THYROID NODULE Chapter 49. THYROID PAIN Chapter 50. SICK EUTHYROID SYNDROME Chapter 51. THYROID FUNCTION TESTS IN NONTHYROIDAL ILLNESS Chapter 52. ADRENAL INCIDENTALOMA Chapter 53. CUSHING’S SYNDROME Chapter 54. PITUITARY TUMOR Chapter 55. HIRSUTISM Chapter 56. GYNECOMASTIA UNIT 5. GASTROENTEROLOGY Chapter 57. ACUTE ABDOMINAL PAIN Chapter 58. CHRONIC ABDOMINAL PAIN Chapter 59. NAUSEA AND VOMITING Chapter 60. ANOREXIA Chapter 61. DYSPHAGIA Chapter 62. HEARTBURN Chapter 63. NONCARDIAC CHEST PAIN Chapter 64. BELCHING Chapter 65. DYSPEPSIA Chapter 66. JAUNDICE Chapter 67. ASCITES Chapter 68. BILIARY COLIC Chapter 69. GASTROINTESTINAL BLEEDING Chapter 70. RECTAL BLEEDING Chapter 71. ACUTE DIARRHEA Chapter 72. CHRONIC DIARRHEA Chapter 73. CONSTIPATION Chapter 74. IRRITABLE BOWEL SYNDROME Chapter 75. ANORECTAL PAIN Chapter 76. POSITIVE FECAL OCCULT BLOOD TEST (FOBT) Chapter 77. FLATULENCE Chapter 78. FECAL INCONTINENCE Chapter 79. ASYMPTOMATIC ABNORMAL LIVER AMINOTRANSFERASES Chapter 80. ELEVATED SERUM IRON Chapter 81. ELEVATED SERUM AMYLASE UNIT 6. HEMATOLOGY/ONCOLOGY Chapter 82. ANEMIA Chapter 83. POLYCYTHEMIA Chapter 84. NEUTROPHILIA Chapter 85. LEUKOPENIA Chapter 86. DEEP VENOUS THROMBOSIS Chapter 87. COAGULATION ABNORMALITIES Chapter 88. TRANSFUSION THERAPY: PLATELETS Chapter 89. TRANSFUSION THERAPY: RED BLOOD CELLS Chapter 90. TRANSFUSION THERAPY: GRANULOCYTES Chapter 91. TRANSFUSION REACTIONS Chapter 92. CLASSICAL HODGKIN’S LYMPHOMA Chapter 93. CHRONIC MYELOGENOUS LEUKEMIA Chapter 94. ABNORMAL SERUM PROTEIN ELECTROPHORESIS Chapter 95. LYMPHADENOPATHY Chapter 96. CARCINOMA OF UNKNOWN PRIMARY SITE (CUPS) Chapter 97. NEUTROPENIA AND FEVER Chapter 98. PATHOLOGIC FRACTURES Chapter 99. CLINICAL CONSIDERATIONS FOR STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION Chapter 100. LATE ISSUES FOR PATIENTS WHO SURVIVE THE INITIAL DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENT OF CANCER Chapter 101. SUPERIOR VENA CAVAL SYNDROME Chapter 102. SPINAL CORD COMPRESSION Chapter 103. TRANSFUSION THERAPY: FRESH FROZEN PLASMA AND CRYOPRECIPITATE UNIT 7. INFECTIOUS DISEASES Chapter 104. FOREIGN TRAVEL: IMMUNIZATIONS AND INFECTIONS Chapter 105. ACUTE AND SUBACUTE MENINGITIS Chapter 106. CHRONIC MENINGITIS Chapter 107. ASEPTIC MENINGITIS Chapter 108. ENCEPHALITIS Chapter 109. SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES Chapter 110. APPROACH TO THE NEWLY DIAGNOSED HIV-POSITIVE PATIENT Chapter 111. RESPIRATORY SYMPTOMS IN HIV-INFECTED PATIENTS Chapter 112. CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM INFECTION IN THE PATIENT WITH HIV Chapter 113. THE ACUTELY ILL PATIENT WITH HIV Chapter 114. SEPSIS Chapter 115. TOXIC SHOCK SYNDROMES Chapter 116. STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS BACTEREMIA Chapter 117. POSTEXPOSURE PROPHYLAXIS FOR HIV AND HEPATITIS B AND C Chapter 118. FEVER OF UNKNOWN ORIGIN UNIT 8. NEPHROLOGY Chapter 119. CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE Chapter 120. ACUTE RENAL FAILURE Chapter 121. PROTEINURIA Chapter 122. HEMATURIA Chapter 123. KIDNEY STONES Chapter 124. RENAL CYSTS AND MASSES Chapter 125. METABOLIC ACIDOSIS Chapter 126. METABOLIC ALKALOSIS Chapter 127. HYPONATREMIA Chapter 128. HYPERNATREMIA Chapter 129. HYPOKALEMIA Chapter 130. HYPERKALEMIA Chapter 131. HYPOMAGNESEMIA Chapter 132. HYPERMAGNESEMIA Chapter 133. HYPOPHOSPHATEMIA Chapter 134. CHOOSING A CHRONIC DIALYSIS MODALITY Chapter 135. SELECTION OF PATIENTS FOR TRANSPLANTATION Chapter 136. FEVER IN THE TRANSPLANT RECIPIENT UNIT 9. NEUROLOGY Chapter 137. ACUTE HEADACHE Chapter 138. CHRONIC HEADACHE Chapter 139. TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK AND STROKE EVALUATION Chapter 140. TRANSIENT MONOCULAR VISUAL LOSS Chapter 141. ACUTE STROKE Chapter 142. STROKE TREATMENT AND PROPHYLAXIS Chapter 143. MEMORY LOSS Chapter 144. DIZZINESS Chapter 145. SEIZURES Chapter 146. STATUS EPILEPTICUS Chapter 147. WEAKNESS Chapter 148. GAIT DISTURBANCES Chapter 149. TREMOR Chapter 150. PARKINSON’S DISEASE Chapter 151. PERIPHERAL NEUROPATHY Chapter 152. HYPERKINESIAS Chapter 153. MUSCLE CRAMPS AND ACHES Chapter 154. ACUTE CONFUSIONAL STATE Chapter 155. CHRONIC BEHAVIOR CHANGE Chapter 156. DISTURBANCES OF SMELL AND TASTE Chapter 157. COMA Chapter 158. BRAIN DEATH UNIT 10. OCULAR Chapter 159. DILATED PUPIL Chapter 160. CORNEAL ABRASION Chapter 161. CONJUNCTIVITIS Chapter 162. ACUTE VISUAL LOSS UNIT 11. PULMONARY DISEASE Chapter 163. HEMOPTYSIS Chapter 164. STRIDOR Chapter 165. WHEEZING Chapter 166. COUGH Chapter 167. DYSPNEA Chapter 168. PLEURAL EFFUSION Chapter 169. MEDIASTINAL LYMPHADENOPATHY Chapter 170. SOLITARY PULMONARY NODULE Chapter 171. MULTIPLE PULMONARY NODULES Chapter 172. DIFFUSE INTERSTITIAL LUNG DISEASE Chapter 173. POSITIVE TUBERCULIN SKIN TEST (PPD) Chapter 174. RESPIRATORY SYMPTOMS AND OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE TO ASBESTOS Chapter 175. ASTHMA UNIT 12. RHEUMATOLOGY Chapter 176. MONOARTICULAR ARTHRITIS Chapter 177. POLYARTICULAR ARTHRITIS Chapter 178. SERONEGATIVE ARTHRITIS Chapter 179. SOFT-TISSUE PAIN Chapter 180. NECK PAIN Chapter 181. SHOULDER PAIN Chapter 182. LOW BACK PAIN Chapter 183. HIP PAIN Chapter 184. HAND AND WRIST PAIN Chapter 185. KNEE PAIN Chapter 186. FOOT PAIN Chapter 187. SCLERODERMA Chapter 188. DRY EYES AND DRY MOUTH (SJÖGREN’S SYNDROME) Chapter 189. RAYNAUD’S PHENOMENON Chapter 190. LOW BONE DENSITY Chapter 191. HYPERURICEMIA AND GOUT Chapter 192. DIFFUSE MUSCLE PAIN AND STIFFNESS: POLYMYALGIA RHEUMATICA AND GIANT CELL ARTERITIS Chapter 193. JOINT HYPERMOBILITY Chapter 194. TEMPOROMANDIBULAR PAIN Chapter 195. ANTINUCLEAR ANTIBODY TEST Chapter 196. ELEVATED SERUM ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE LEVEL Chapter 197. ELEVATED CREATINE KINASE LEVEL UNIT 13. UROLOGY Chapter 198. SCROTAL MASS Chapter 199. BENIGN PROSTATIC HYPERTROPHY Chapter 200. PROSTATITIS Chapter 201. URINARY INCONTINENCE Chapter 202. URINATY RETENTION UNIT 14. WOMEN’S HEALTH Chapter 203. VAGINAL DISCHARGE Chapter 204. CERVICITIS Chapter 205. SECONDARY AMENORRHEA Chapter 206. ABNORMAL VAGINAL BLEEDING Chapter 207. VAGINAL BLEEDING IN PREGNANCY Chapter 208. ACUTE ABDOMINAL PAIN IN WOMEN Chapter 209. CHEST PAIN IN WOMEN Chapter 210. URINARY TRACT INFECTION IN WOMEN Chapter 211. BREAST MASS Chapter 212. ADJUVANT THERAPY CHOICES IN BREAST CANCER Chapter 213. NIPPLE DISCHARGE Chapter 214. ABNORMAL PAP SMEAR Chapter 215. PREMENSTRUAL DYSPHORIC DISORDER Chapter 216. CONTRACEPTIVE CHOICES Chapter 217. USE OF ORAL CONTRACEPTIVES Chapter 218. FEMALE INFERTILITY Chapter 219. DOMESTIC VIOLENCE Chapter 220. ECTOPIC PREGNANCY Chapter 221. OSTEOPOROSIS AND OSTEOPENIA UNIT 15. EMERGENCY MEDICINE Chapter 222. ACUTE PULSELESS EXTREMITY Chapter 223. FOREIGN BODY INGESTION Chapter 224. CAUSTIC INGESTION AND EXPOSURE Chapter 225. MAMMAL BITES Chapter 226. SNAKE VENOM POISONING Chapter 227. HYPOTHERMIA Chapter 228. SUBMERSION UNIT 16. BEHAVIORAL MEDICINE Chapter 229. ALCOHOLISM Chapter 230. ANXIETY Chapter 231. DEPRESSION Chapter 232. EMOTIONAL DISORDERS WITH SOMATIC EXPRESSION Chapter 233. GRIEF Chapter 234. PSYCHOSIS Chapter 235. SMOKING CESSATION Chapter 236. SUICIDAL PATIENT UNIT 17. PHARMACOLOGY Chapter 237. ACUTE ANTICOAGULATION Chapter 238. LONG-TERM ANTICOAGULATION Chapter 239. ANAPHYLAXIS Chapter 240. EVALUATION OF ADVERSE DRUG REACTIONS Chapter 241. ANTIMICROBIAL PROPHYLAXIS IN SURGICAL PATIENTS Chapter 242. CHOOSING APPROPRIATE ANTIMICROBIAL THERAPY Chapter 243. USE AND MONITORING OF AMINOGLYCOSIDE ANTIBIOTICS Chapter 244. USE AND EVALUATION OF SERUM DRUG LEVELS Chapter 245. USE AND EVALUATION OF VANCOMYCIN SERUM DRUG LEVEL INDEX A B C D,E F,G,H I J K,L,M N,O,P Q,R S T,U,V W,X,Y,Z