Textbook of Urgent Care Medicine

by John Shufeldt, Lee Resnick

The first and only comprehensive textbook in Urgent Care Medicine, covering all of they key core competencies, in a focused and easily referenced format. • Edited and authored by recognized leaders in urgent care education• Formatted for everyday clinical accessibility• Tailored material for typical encounters• Focuses on the unique challenges of the urgent care setting• Covers pearls & pitfalls, from triage to disposition• Quick reference points for risk management and medicolegal pearlsTable of I. Neurologic Urgencies1 Facial Droop • Resnick2 Headache • Melamed and Rodon3 Vertigo • Shufeldt4 Acute Focal Neurologic Deficit • Toscano5 Head Injury • Toscano6 Altered Mental Status • Rodon and Rodon7 Heat and Cold Urgencies • Lathrop and ShufeldtSection II. Head, Eye, Ear, Nose, and Throat Urgencies8 Epistaxis • Rhodes9 Acute Eye Trauma • Buzzard10 Acute Vision Loss • Buzzard11 The Acute Nontraumatic Red Eye • Buzzard12 Otitis Media • Davidoff13 Sinusitis • Davidoff14 Dental Injuries and Pain • McNeeley15 Sore Throat • GluckmanSection III. Respiratory Urgencies16 Wheezing and Asthma • Ernst17 Dyspnea • Davidoff18 Respiratory Tract Infections • Toscano19 Acute Exacerbations of Chronic Bronchitis • ErnstSection IV. Cardiac Urgencies20 Syncope • Iserson21 Chest Pain • Weinstock22 Palpitations • Barkoudah and Debold-Hawley23 Peripheral Edema • CollinsSection V. Gastrointestinal Urgencies24 Nausea, Vomiting, and Diarrhea in the Adult Patient • Gluckman25 Abdominal Pain in the Adult Patient • Scheufele26 Gastrointestinal Bleeding • CollinsSection VI. Genitourinary Urgencies27 Dysuria and Urinary Tract Infections in the Adult Patient • Gibson28 Dysuria and Urinary Tract Infections in the Pediatric Patient • Gibson29 Flank Pain and Kidney Stones • GluckmanSection VII. Orthopedic, Environmental, and Traumatic Urgencies30 Neck Pain • Erickson and Shufeldt31 Ankle and Foot Pain and Injury • Truax32 Lower Extremity Pain and Injury • Prior, Speer, and Shufeldt33 Shoulder and Upper Extremity Pain and Injury • Szerlip and Zimmer34 Hand and Wrist Pain and Injury • Simela and Zimmer35 Chest Wall and Other Thoracic Trauma • McNeeley36 Facial Injuries • McNeeley37 Laceration Repair and Wound Management • Bhoga38 Needlesticks • Erickson and Shufeldt39 Bites and Stings • Shufeldt40 Back Pain • BurgerSection VIII. Gynecologic and Obstetric Urgencies41 Vaginal Bleeding • Sunshine42 Sexually Transmitted Infections • SunshineSection IX. Dermatologic Urgencies43 Common Dermatologic Conditions • Shuman and Hogencamp44 Urticaria and Angioedema • Knauer45 Skin and Soft-Tissue Infections • Miller and Newgent46 Contact Dermatitis • Nedorost47 Burns • DavidoffSection X. Pediatric Urgencies48 Respiratory Difficulty in the Pediatric Patient • Rose49 Vomiting and Diarrhea in the Pediatric Patient • Graae50 Upper Respiratory Infections in the Pediatric Patient • Chavda51 Abdominal Pain in the Pediatric Patient • Schor52 Limp in the Pediatric Patient • Gilmore

1367 pages, Kindle Edition

First published February 4, 2015

About the author

John Shufeldt is a serial student, an indefatigable change agent and a multidisciplinary entrepreneur. After earning his BA from Drake University in 1982 and his MD from the University of Health Sciences and the Chicago Medical School in 1986, John completed his emergency medicine residency at Christ Hospital and Medical Center in Oak Lawn, Ill. in 1989. He spent his final year at the hospital as Chief Resident before returning to school to earn his MBA in 1995 from Arizona State University. In order to expand his knowledge, John studied and earned his Juris Doctorate in 2005 from ASU. He is admitted to the State Bar in Arizona, the Federal District Court and Supreme Court of the United States.

John is the CEO of MeMD, a virtual care portal connecting patients to providers, and the Principal of Shufeldt Consulting, which provides consulting services for urgent cares and medical office practices. He has founded many other health and non-health care businesses and continues to practice emergency medicine and law. John recently authored Ingredients of Outliers, and co-edited Textbook of Urgent Care Management and Textbook of Urgent Care Medicine.

He is the medical director and medic for the Phoenix SWAT team, an experienced pilot and writes and lectures on a variety of subject matters to graduate medical, business and law students. John is an adjunct professor at the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law where he teaches a clinic on Health Law Entrepreneurism. He remains involved in his alma maters by serving on the Drake University Board of Trustees and the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law Alumni Board.