Designed to suit a wide range of healthcare providers, including primary care, subspecialties, and allied health, Conn’s Current Therapy has been a trusted clinical resource for well over 70 years. The 2021 edition continues this tradition of excellence with current, evidence-based treatment information presented in a concise yet in-depth format. More than 300 topics have been carefully reviewed and updated to bring you state-of-the-art information in even the most rapidly changing areas of medicine.
Offers personal approaches from recognized leaders in the field, covering common complaints, acute diseases, and chronic illnesses along with the most current evidence-based clinical management options.
Follows a consistent, easy-to-use format throughout, with diagnosis, therapy, drug protocols, and treatment pearls presented in quick-reference boxes and tables for point-of-care answers to common clinical questions.
Includes new and significantly revised chapters on COVID-19, Diabetes Mellitus in Adults, Chronic Leukemias, and Osteomyelitis.
Incorporates more electronic links throughout the text that connect the reader to apps and clinical prediction tools that can easily be accessed in practice.
Features thoroughly reviewed and updated information from many new authors who offer a fresh perspective and their unique personal experience and judgment.
Provides current drug information thoroughly reviewed by PharmDs.
Features nearly 300 images, including algorithms, anatomical illustrations, and photographs, that provide useful information for diagnosis.
Enhanced eBook version included with purchase, which allows you to access all of the text, figures, and references from the book on a variety of devices.
Author(s): Conn's Current Therapy 2021 ,Rick D. Kellerman, MD, David Rakel, MD
Publisher: Elsevier
Year: 2020
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CONN’S CURRENT THERAPY
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Contributors
Preface
1 - CHEST PAIN
2 - CONSTIPATION
3 - COUGH
4 - DIZZINESS AND VERTIGO
5 - FATIGUE
6 - FEVER
7 - GASEOUSNESS, INDIGESTION, NAUSEA, AND VOMITING
8 - HEMATURIA
9 - HICCUPS
10 - HOARSENESS AND LARYNGITIS
11 - Pain
12 - PALLIATIVE AND END-OF-LIFECARE
13 - PALPITATIONS
14 - PHARYNGITIS
15 - PRURITUS
16 - RHINITIS
17 - SPINE PAIN
18 - TINNITUS
19 - ALLERGIC REACTIONS TO INSECT STINGS
20 - ANAPHYLAXIS
21 - DRUG HYPERSENSITIVITY REACTIONS
22 - SERUM SICKNESS
23 - ACUTE MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION
24 - ANGINA PECTORIS
25 - AORTIC DISEASE: ANEURYSM ANDDISSECTION
26 - ATRIAL FIBRILLATION
27 - CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE
28 - CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE
29 - HEART BLOCK
30 - HYPERTENSION
31 - HYPERTROPHIC CARDIOMYOPATHY
32 - INFECTIVE ENDOCARDITIS
33 - MITRAL VALVE PROLAPSE
34 - PERICARDITIS
35 - PERIPHERAL ARTERY DISEASE
36 - PREMATURE BEATS
37 - TACHYCARDIAS
38 - VALVULAR HEART DISEASE
39 - VENOUS THROMBOSIS
40 - ACUTE AND CHRONIC PANCREATITIS
41 - ACUTE DIARRHEA
42 - BLEEDING ESOPHAGEAL VARICES
43 - CALCULOUS BILIARY DISEASE
44 - CHRONIC DIARRHEA
45 - CIRRHOSIS
46 - DIVERTICULA OF THE ALIMENTARY TRACT
47 - DYSPHAGIA AND ESOPHAGEAL OBSTRUCTION
48 - GASTRITIS AND PEPTIC ULCER DIS
49 - GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX DISEASE (GERD)
50 - HEMORRHOIDS, ANAL FISSURE, AND ANORECTAL ABSCESS AND FISTULA
51 - HEPATITIS A, B, D, AND E
52 - HEPATITIS C
53 - INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASE
54 - INTESTINAL PARASITES
55 - IRRITABLE BOWEL SYNDROME
56 - MALABSORPTION
57 - NONALCOHOLIC FATTY LIVER DISEASE
58 - PANCREATIC CANCER
59 - TUMORS OF THE COLON AND RECTUM
60 - TUMORS OF THE STOMACH
61 -
ACROMEGALY
62 -
ADRENOCORTICAL INSUFFICIENCY
63 -
CUSHING’S SYNDROME
64 -
DIABETES INSIPIDUS
65 -
DIABETES MELLITUS IN ADULTS
66 -
DIABETIC KETOACIDOSIS
67 -
GOUT AND HYPERURICEMIA
68 -
HYPERALDOSTERONISM
69 -
HYPERLIPIDEMIA
70 -
HYPERPARATHYROIDISM ANDHYPOPARATHYROIDISM
71 -
HYPERPROLACTINEMIA
72 -
HYPERTHYROIDISM
73 -
HYPOKALEMIA AND HYPERKALEMIA
74 -
HYPONATREMIA
75 - HYPOPITUITARISM
76 - HYPOTHYROIDISM
77 -
OBESITY IN ADULTS
78 -
PARENTERAL NUTRITION IN ADULTS
79 -
PHEOCHROMOCYTOMA
80 -
THYROID CANCER
81 -
THYROIDITIS
82 -
ACUTE LEUKEMIA IN ADULTS
83 - BLOOD COMPONENT
THERAPY AND TRANSFUSION REACTIONS
84 - CHRONIC LEUKEMIAS
85 - DISSEMINATED INTRAVASCULARCOAGULATION
86 - HEMOCHROMATOSIS
87 - HEMOLYTIC ANEMIAS
88 - HEMOPHILIA AND RELATED CONDITIONS
89 - HODGKIN LYMPHOMA
90 - IRON DEFICIENCY ANEMIA
91 - MULTIPLE MYELOMA
92 - MYELODYSPLASTIC SYNDROMES
93 - NON-HODGKINLYMPHOMA
94 - PERNICIOUS ANEMIA/MEGALOBLASTICANEMIA
95 - PLATELET-MEDIATEDBLEEDING DISORDERS
96 - POLYCYTHEMIA VERA
97 - PORPHYRIAS
98 - SICKLE CELL DISEASE
98 -
THALASSEMIA
99 -
THROMBOTIC THROMBOCYTOPENIC PURPURA
101 - DRY EYE SYNDROME
102 - GLAUCOMA
103 - MÉNIÈRE’S DISEASE
104 - OTITIS EXTERNA
105 - OTITIS MEDIA
106 - RED EYE
107 - RHINOSINUSITIS
108 - TEMPOROMANDIBULAR DISORDERS
109 - UVEITIS
110 - VISION REHABILITATION
111 - AMEBIASIS
112 - ANTHRAX
113 - BABESIOSIS
114 - BACTERIAL MENINGITIS
115 - BRUCELLOSIS
116 - CLOSTRIDIOIDES DIFFICILE COLITIS
117 - CAMPYLOBACTER
118 - CAT SCRATCH DISEASE
119 - CHIKUNGUNYA
120 - CHOLERA
121 - COVID-19
122 - EBOLA VIRUS DISEASE
123 - FOODBORNE ILLNESSES
124 - GIARDIASIS
125 - HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS: TREATMENTAND PREVENTION
126 - INFECTIOUS MONONUCLEOSIS
127 - INFLUENZA
128 - LEISHMANIASIS
129 - LEPROSY
130 - LYME DISEASE AND POST-TREATMENTLYMEDISEASE SYNDROME
131 - MALARIA
132 - MEASLES (RUBEOLA)
133 - METHICILLIN-RESISTANTSTAPHYLOCOCCUSAUREUS
134 - MUMPS
135 - MYALGIC ENCEPHALOMYELITIS/CHRONICFATIGUE SYNDROME
136 - NECROTIZING SKIN AND SOFT-TISSUE INFECTIONS
137 - OSTEOMYELITIS
138 - PLAGUE
139 - PSITTACOSIS
140 - Q FEVER
141 - RABIES
RAT-BITEFEVER
143 - RELAPSING FEVER
144 - RUBELLA AND CONGENITAL RUBELLA
145 - SALMONELLOSIS
146 - SEVERE SEPSIS
147 - SMALLPOX
148 - TETANUS
149 - TICKBORNE RICKETTSIAL DISEASES (ROCKYMOUNTAIN SPOTTED FEVER AND OTHERSPOTTED FEVER GROUP RICKETTSIOSES,EHRLICHIOSES, AND ANAPLASMOSIS)
150 - TOXIC SHOCK SYNDROME
151 - TOXOPLASMOSIS
152 - TYPHOID FEVER
153 - VARICELLA (CHICKENPOX)
154 - WHOOPING COUGH (PERTUSSIS)
155 - YELLOW FEVER
156 - ZIKA VIRUS DISEASE
157 - ACUTE FACIAL PARALYSIS
158 -ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE
159 - BRAIN TUMORS
160 - GILLES DE LA TOURETTE SYNDROME
161 - INTRACEREBRAL HEMORRHAGE
162 - ISCHEMIC CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE
163 - MIGRAINE
164 - MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS
165 - MYASTHENIA GRAVIS
166 - NEUROFIBROMATOSIS (TYPE 1)
167 - NONMIGRAINE HEADACHE
168 - OPTIC NEURITIS
169 - PARKINSON DISEASE
170 - REHABILITATION OF THE STROKE PATIENT
171 - SEIZURES AND EPILEPSY IN ADOLESCENTS AND ADULTS
172 - SLEEP DISORDERS
173 - SPORTS-RELATEDHEAD INJURIES
174 - TARGETED TEMPERATURE MANAGEMENT(THERAPEUTIC HYPOTHERMIA)
175 - TRIGEMINAL NEURALGIA
176 - VIRAL MENINGITIS
177 - ALCOHOL USE DISORDERS
178 - AUTISM
179 - DELIRIUM
180 - DEPRESSIVE, BIPOLAR, AND RELATED MOOD DISORDERS
181 - DRUG USE DISORDERS
182 - EATING DISORDERS
183 - GENERALIZED ANXIETY DISORDER
184 - OBSESSIVE-COMPULSIVEDISORDER
185 - PANIC DISORDER
186 - POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER
187 - SCHIZOPHRENIA
188 - ACUTE BRONCHITIS AND OTHER VIRALRESPIRATORYINFECTIONS
189 - ACUTE RESPIRATORY FAILURE
190 - ASTHMA IN ADOLESCENTS AND ADULTS
191 - ATELECTASIS
192 - BACTERIAL PNEUMONIA
193 - BLASTOMYCOSIS
194 - CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE PULMONARY DISEASE
195 - OCCIDIOIDOMYCOSIS
196 - CYSTIC FIBROSIS
197 - HISTOPLASMOSIS
198 - HYPERSENSITIVITY PNEUMONITIS
199 - LEGIONELLOSIS (LEGIONNAIRES’ DISEASE ANDPONTIAC FEVER)
200 - LUNG ABSCESS
201 - LUNG CANCER
202 - OBSTRUCTIVE SLEEP APNEA
203 - PLEURAL EFFUSION AND EMPYEMA
204 - PNEUMOCONIOSIS: ASBESTOSIS AND SILICOSIS
205 - PULMONARY HYPERTENSION
206 - SARCOIDOSIS
207 - TUBERCULOSIS AND OTHER MYCOBACTERIALDISEASES
208 - VENOUS THROMBOEMBOLISM
209 - VIRAL AND MYCOPLASMAL PNEUMONIAS
210 - VIRAL RESPIRATORY INFECTIONS
211 - AXIAL SPONDYLOARTHRITIS
212 - BURSITIS AND TENDINOPATHY
213 - COMMON SPORTS INJURIES
214 - CONNECTIVE TISSUE DISORDERS
215 - FIBROMYALGIA
216 - JUVENILE IDIOPATHIC ARTHRITIS
217 - OSTEOARTHRITIS
218 - OSTEOPOROSIS
219 - PAGET’S DISEASE OF BONE
220 - POLYMYALGIA RHEUMATICA AND GIANT CELL ARTERITIS
221 - PSORIATIC ARTHRITIS
222 - RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS
223 - CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS
224 - CONDYLOMATA ACUMINATA
225 - GENITAL ULCER DISEASE: CHANCROID,GRANULOMA INGUINALE, ANDLYMPHOGRANULOMA
226 - GONORRHEA
227 - NONGONOCOCCAL URETHRITIS
228 - SYPHILIS
229 - ACNE VULGARIS
230 - ATOPIC DERMATITIS
231 - BACTERIAL DISEASES OF THE SKIN
232 - BULLOUS DISEASES
233 - CONTACT DERMATITIS
234 - CUTANEOUS T-CELLLYMPHOMAS INCLUDINGMYCOSIS FUNGOIDES AND SÉZARY SYNDROME
235 - CUTANEOUS VASCULITIS
235 - DISEASES OF THE HAIR
236 - DISEASES OF THE MOUTH
237 - DISEASES OF THE NAIL
238 - ERYTHEMA MULTIFORME
239 - FUNGAL INFECTIONS OF THE SKIN
240 - KELOIDS
241 - MELANOMA
242 - NEVI
244 - NONMELANOMA CANCER OF THE SKIN
245 - PAPULOSQUAMOUS ERUPTIONS
246 - PARASITIC DISEASES OF THE SKIN
247 - PIGMENTARY DISORDERS
248 - PREMALIGNANT SKIN LESIONS
249 - PRESSURE INJURY
250 - PRURITUS ANI AND VULVAE
251 - ROSACEA
252 - STEVENS-JOHNSON SYNDROME AND TOXICEPIDERMAL NECROLYSIS
253 - SUNBURN
254 - URTICARIA AND ANGIOEDEMA
255 - VENOUS ULCERS
256 - VIRAL DISEASES OF THE SKIN
257 - WARTS (VERRUCAE)
258 - ACUTE KIDNEY INJURY
259 - CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE
260 - MALIGNANT TUMORS OF THE UROGENITAL TRACT
261 - NEPHROLITHIASIS
262 - PRIMARY GLOMERULAR DISEASE
263 - PYELONEPHRITIS
264 - TRAUMA TO THE GENITOURINARY TRACT
265 - URETHRAL STRICTURE DISEASE
266 - URINARY INCONTINENCE
Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia
Epididymitis and Orchitis
Erectile Dysfunction
Prostate Cancer
Prostatitis
Urinary Tract Infections in the Male
Abnormal Uterine Bleeding
Amenorrhea
Bacterial Infections of the Urinary Tract in Women
Benign Breast Disease
Breast Cancer
Cancer of the Endometrium
Cancer of the Uterine Cervix
Contraception
Dysmenorrhea
Endometriosis
Female Sexual Dysfunction
Infertility
Menopause
Ovarian Cancer
Pelvic Inflammatory Disease
Premenstrual Syndrome
Uterine Leiomyoma
Vulvar Neoplasia
Vulvovaginitis
Antepartum Care
Ectopic Pregnancy
Hypertension in Pregnancy
Postpartum Care
Postpartum Depression
Vaginal Bleeding in Pregnancy
ACUTE LEUKEMIA IN CHILDREN
ADOLESCENT HEALTH
300 - ASTHMA IN CHILDREN
ATTENTION-DEFICIT/HYPERACTIVITY DISORDER
BRONCHIOLITIS
Diabetes mellitus in children
ENCOPRESIS
EPILEPSY IN INFANTS AND CHILDREN
INFANT HYPERBILIRUBINEMIA
NOCTURNAL ENURESIS
NORMAL INFANT FEEDING
OBESITY IN CHILDREN
PARENTERAL FLUID THERAPY FOR INFANTS AND CHILDREN
PEDIATRIC FAILURE TO THRIVE
PEDIATRIC SLEEP DISORDERS
RESUSCITATION OF THE NEWBORN
URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS IN INFANTS ANDCHILDREN
BURNS
DISTURBANCES DUE TO COLD
HEAT-RELATEDILLNESS
HIGH ALTITUDE ILLNESS
MARINE POISONINGS, ENVENOMATIONS, AND TRAUMA
320 - MEDICAL TOXICOLOGY
SPIDER BITES AND SCORPION STINGS
VENOMOUS SNAKEBITE
IMMUNIZATION PRACTICES
TRAVEL MEDICINE
BIOLOGIC AGENTS REFERENCE CHART
POPULAR HERBS AND NUTRITIONAL SUPPLEMENTS
TOXIC CHEMICAL AGENTS REFERENCE CHART
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Copyright
Title Page
Dedication
Contents
Chapter 1: ‘I’m thinking’ – Oh, but are you?
Chapter 2: Renegade perception
Chapter 3: The Pushbacker sting
Chapter 4: ‘Covid’: The calculated catastrophe
Chapter 5: There is no ‘virus’
Chapter 6: Sequence of deceit
Chapter 7: War on your mind
Chapter 8: ‘Reframing’ insanity
Chapter 9: We must have it? So what is it?
Chapter 10: Human 2.0
Chapter 11: Who controls the Cult?
Chapter 12: Escaping Wetiko
Postscript
Appendix: Cowan-Kaufman-Morell Statement on Virus Isolation
Bibliography
Index
Copyright
Title Page
Dedication
Contents
Chapter 1: ‘I’m thinking’ – Oh, but are you?
Chapter 2: Renegade perception
Chapter 3: The Pushbacker sting
Chapter 4: ‘Covid’: The calculated catastrophe
Chapter 5: There is no ‘virus’
Chapter 6: Sequence of deceit
Chapter 7: War on your mind
Chapter 8: ‘Reframing’ insanity
Chapter 9: We must have it? So what is it?
Chapter 10: Human 2.0
Chapter 11: Who controls the Cult?
Chapter 12: Escaping Wetiko
Postscript
Appendix: Cowan-Kaufman-Morell Statement on Virus Isolation
Bibliography
Index
