Signs and Symptoms in Emergency Medicine - Literature-Based Approach to Emergent Conditions

Patients come to the emergency department with symptoms, not diagnoses. This pocket-sized text provides a symptom-based approach to patient care in the emergency department. It is designed to be used as a quick reference and to serve as a study guide for many emergent conditions. Symptom-Based Approach focuses on the many conditions that must be considered while caring for patients in the emergency department; Details the symptoms, signs, workup, and treatment considerations for each diagnosis; Literature-based support for frequency with which symptoms, signs, recognized patterns of disease, and diagnostic tests are present : + : 5% ; ++ : 6% to 30% ; +++ : 31% to 69% ; ++++ : 70% to 94% ; +++++ : 95% to 100%.