Advanced Practice Clinician Acute Care Protocols and Disease Management: For Family Practice, Urgent Care, and Emergency Medicine by Donald Correll

A compendium of acute care protocols and disease management guides created for the Advanced Practice Clinician (nurse practitioners and physician assistants). Over 150 concise, fast-reading protocols and disease management topics for PA's and NP's working in family practice, urgent care, and emergency medicine. Covers CV, respiratory, endocrine, toxicology, neurology, musculoskeletal, GI, GU, electrolyte and acid/base disturbances, HEENT, trauma, pediatrics, geriatrics, OB/GYN, infectious disease, dermatology, hematology, psychiatric and social, environmental, medications, among others. Disease management presents common disease processes that are seen in outpatient settings. Topics provide differential diagnosis, pertinent central clinical facts, and practice guidance in a bulleted outline format. This book has evidenced-based care and best practices and is a management tool to decrease adverse outcomes. The author Donald Correll, M.D. is the Emergency Department Medical Director of Jackson-Madison County General Hospital (Tennessee), which treats 85,000 acute care patients annually.