Pile / Baudendistel / Harte Clinical Care Conundrums

Challenging Diagnoses in Hospital Medicine
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-118-48317-6
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 208 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Hospital Medicine - Current Concepts

Introducing the first evidence-based casebook for hospitalclinicians
This book introduces illustrated, evidence-based clinical casesdrawn from real-world hospital practice. Geared to the needs ofhospital clinicians, Clinical Care Conundrums: ChallengingDiagnoses in Hospital Medicine focuses on sharpening clinicalreasoning and diagnostic skills, giving readers the tools torecognize and diagnose a wide array of diseases, while promotingdiagnostic safety in hospital medicine.
Written by leading experts on the topics under discussion, thisvolume offers a hand-picked collection of case studies from thewidely popular Clinical Care Conundrum (CCC) series found in theJournal of Hospital Medicine. Each chapter presents a caseto an expert clinician, who explains his or her approach todiagnosing challenging medical dilemmas. Each chapter concludeswith a concise review of recent literature and, if applicable, withdiscussions of cognitive errors that may impact clinical diagnosisand patient care. Readers will find:
* An appealing presentation style that combines high-qualityimages and text
* Coverage of both common conditions and uncommon but importantdiseases encountered in the hospital setting
* A look at the state of the art of clinical reasoning, an areaof critical interest to clinicians
* Practical "pearls" for each case study that readers can applyin their own practice
Clinical Care Conundrums is an indispensable referencefor hospitalists, hospital-based physicians and midlevel providers,physicians-in-training, and the many other medical practitionerswho come up against difficult cases on a daily basis.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Pile, James C.

Baudendistel, Thomas E.

Harte, Brian

Inhaltsverzeichnis

PREFACE ix
CONTRIBUTORS xi
CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION TO CLINICAL CARE CONUNDRUMS IN HOSPITALMEDICINE 1
Robert M. Wachter
CHAPTER 2 IMPROVING DIAGNOSTIC SAFETY IN HOSPITAL MEDICINE: CANCLINICAL CARE CONUNDRUMS HELP? 5
Edward E. Etchells, Kaveh G. Shojania, and Donald A.Redelmeier
CHAPTER 3 CRACKING THE CASE 19
Jennei Wei, Patrick P. Kneeland, and Gurpreet Dhaliwal
CHAPTER 4 A MIDLIFE CRISIS 27
Jennifer R. Lukela, Rajesh S. Mangrulkar, Lawrence M. TierneyJr., John Del Valle, and Sanjay Saint
CHAPTER 5 FISHING FOR A DIAGNOSIS 35
Colin R. Cooke, John V. L. Sheffield, and Jan V.Hirschmann
CHAPTER 6 A RASH DECISION 43
Brian J. Harte, Gurpreet Dhaliwal, Wendy Armstrong, and James C.Pile
CHAPTER 7 ONE HUNDRED YEARS LATER 51
Thomas E. Baudendistel, Nima Afshar, and Lawrence M. TierneyJr.
CHAPTER 8 THE THIRD TIME'S THE CHARM 59
Sara Mekuria, Esteban Cheng Ching, S. A. Josephson, Jinny Tavee,and Brian J. Harte
CHAPTER 9 A FRAYED KNOT 69
Thomas E. Baudendistel, Irena L. Ilic, and HarryHollander
CHAPTER 10 BETTER LATE THAN NEVER 77
Anuradha Ramaswamy, Maytee Boonyapredee, Ramakrishnan Ranganath,Brian J. Harte, and James C. Pile
CHAPTER 11 THINKING INSIDE THE BOX 87
Damon M. Kwan, Gurpreet Dhaliwal, and Thomas E.Baudendistel
CHAPTER 12 ARE WE THERE YET? 95
Lisa H. Williams, Gregory J. Raugi, Gurpreet Dhaliwal, SanjaySaint, and Benjamin A. Lipsky
CHAPTER 13 A DISTINGUISHING FEATURE 105
Sanjiv J. Shah, Aubrey O. Ingraham, Sandra Y. Chung, and RichardJ. Haber
CHAPTER 14 CONSEQUENCES OF MISSED OPPORTUNITIES 113
Julia C. Dombrowski, Helen Kao, Natasha Renda, and R. J.Kohlwes
CHAPTER 15 IN SIGHT BUT OUT OF MIND 121
Letizia Attala, Adam Tremblay, Giampaolo Corti, Sanjay Saint,and Alessandro Bartoloni
CHAPTER 16 A CHANGE OF HEART 127
Jonathan P. Piccini, Adrian F. Hernandez, Louis R. Dibernardo,Joseph G. Rogers, and Gurpreet Dhaliwal
CHAPTER 17 MISSING THE FOREST FOR THE TREES 137
Satish Gopal, James C. Pile, and Daniel J. Brotman
CHAPTER 18 A PAIN IN THE BONE 143
John Fani Srour, Julia Braza, and Gerald W. Smetana
CHAPTER 19 A DIAGNOSIS OF EXCLUSION 153
Iris O. Yung, Thomas E. Baudendistel, and GurpreetDhaliwal
CHAPTER 20 MAKING A LIST AND CHECKING IT TWICE 161
Satyen Nichani, Sandro Cinti, and Jeffrey H. Barsuk
CHAPTER 21 CAUGHT IN THE WEB: E-DIAGNOSIS 169
Yasuharu Tokuda, Makoto Aoki, Saurabh B. Kandpal, and LawrenceM. Tierney Jr.
CHAPTER 22 IN THE FACE OF IT ALL 177
Amit Garg, Thomas E. Baudendistel, and Gurpreet Dhaliwal
INDEX 185