A compendium of acute care protocols, practice and disease management guidelines created for Nurse Practitioners and Physician Assistants. Concise, fast-reading topics for family practice, urgent care, and emergency medicine.

This book comprises a compendium of practice guides created for nurse practitioners. Over 290 concise, fast-reading topics for nurse practitioners working in emergency medicine, urgent care and family practice. Covers cardiovascular, respiratory, endocrine, toxicology, neurology, musculoskeletal, gastrointestinal, general surgery, genitourinary disorders, electrolyte and acid/base disturbances, HEENT, trauma, pediatrics, geriatrics, gynecology, infectious disease, dermatology, hematology, psychiatric and social, environmental emergencies, and critical care, among others. The book provides differential diagnosis, pertinent clinical facts, and practice guidance in a bulleted outline, double column format for improving patient care and safety.
Bulleted outline format
Evidence-based information
Up-to-date clinical guidelines
Quick reference guide
Differential diagnosis guidance

This book comprises a compendium of practice guides created for physician assistants. Over 290 concise, fast-reading topics for physician assistants working in emergency medicine, urgent care and family practice. Covers cardiovascular, respiratory, endocrine, toxicology, neurology, musculoskeletal, gastrointestinal, general surgery, genitourinary disorders, electrolyte and acid/base disturbances, HEENT, trauma, pediatrics, geriatrics, gynecology, infectious disease, dermatology, hematology, psychiatric and social, environmental emergencies, and critical care, among others. The book provides differential diagnosis, pertinent clinical facts, and practice guidance in a bulleted outline format for improving patient care and safety.
Bulleted outline format
Evidence-based information
Up-to-date clinical guidelines
Quick reference guide
Differential diagnosis guidance

This is a compendium of acute care protocols and disease management guides created for the Nurse Practitioner. Over 290 concise, fast-reading protocols and disease management sections for Nurse Practitioners working in family practice, urgent care, and emergency medicine. Covers cardiovascular, respiratory, endocrine, toxicology, neurology, musculoskeletal, gastrointestinal, genitourinary disorders, electrolyte and acid/base disturbances, HEENT, trauma, pediatrics, geriatrics, gynecology, infectious disease, dermatology, hematology, psychiatric and social, environmental, medications, and disease management, among others. Also includes an Acute Care Ultrasound Chapter. The book provides differential diagnosis, pertinent central clinical facts, and practice guidance in a bulleted outline format, for the purpose of furthering the relationship between the Nurse Practitioner and the Physician and for improving patient care and safety.
Bulleted outline format
Evidence-based information
Up-to-date clinical guidelines
Quick reference guide
Differential diagnosis guidance

This eBook is a compendium of acute care protocols and disease management guides created for the Physician Assistant. Over 290 concise, fast-reading protocols and disease management sections for Physician Assistants working in family practice, urgent care, and emergency medicine. Covers cardiovascular, respiratory, endocrine, toxicology, neurology, musculoskeletal, gastrointestinal, genitourinary disorders, electrolyte and acid/base disturbances, HEENT, trauma, pediatrics, geriatrics, gynecology, infectious disease, dermatology, hematology, psychiatric and social, environmental, medications, and disease management, among others. Also includes an Acute Care Ultrasound Chapter. The book provides differential diagnosis, pertinent central clinical facts, and practice guidance in a bulleted outline format for the purpose of furthering the relationship between the Nurse Practitioner and the Physician and for improving patient care and safety.
Bulleted outline format
Evidence-based information
Up-to-date clinical guidelines
Quick reference guide
Differential diagnosis guidance

This book comprises a compendium of pediatric acute care created for nurse practitioners. Concise, fast-reading topics for nurse practitioners working in emergency medicine, urgent care and family practice. Covers cardiovascular, respiratory, endocrine, toxicology, neurology, musculoskeletal, gastrointestinal, general surgery, genitourinary disorders, HEENT, trauma, pediatrics, infectious disease, dermatology, psychiatric and social, environmental emergencies, and critical care, among others. The book provides differential diagnosis, pertinent clinical facts, and practice guidance in a bulleted outline format for improving patient care and safety.
Bulleted outline format
Evidence-based information
Up-to-date clinical guidelines
Quick reference guide
Differential diagnosis guidance

This book comprises a compendium of pediatric acute care protocols created for physician assistants. Concise, fast-reading topics for physician assistants working in emergency medicine, urgent care and family practice. The book provides differential diagnosis, pertinent clinical facts, and practice guidance in a bulleted outline format for improving patient care and safety.
Bulleted outline format
Evidence-based information
Up-to-date clinical guidelines
Quick reference guide
Differential diagnosis guidance

These are some representative emergency department bedside ultrasounds performed by the author over a 10 year period. The ultrasounds presented are to assist the medical provider with an introduction to bedside acute ultrasound. They are limited and are not a replacement for formal in-depth complete ultrasounds performed by trained personnel and read by radiologist.
Introduction to bedside ultrasound
Representative emergency department cases
Not a replacement for formal ultrasound
Educational resource for providers
The practice guides in the Practice Guide books are similar in content to the protocols in the Acute Care Protocols books. However, the Acute Care Protocols and Disease Management books contain additional pages on disease management topics.