What if...you're starting an IV and the catheter breaks off in the vein?a patient has a gun tucked in his waistband?the Heimlich fails? What If. there were a book that anticipated stressful, dangerous, or unusual situations? This handy, quick reference answers the questions you need to know.but may be afraid to ask. Concise, easy-to-read text puts essential knowledge at your fingertips from what to do when you witness a traumatic accident on your way to work to how to cope with tyrannical colleagues and everything in between. When to, how to, and when not to! In the hospital, at a social function, on a mountainside, or at the beach, step-by-step instructions explain how to be prepared for the unexpected.
Author(s): Goodspeed, Lee
Edition: 1
Publisher: F.A. Davis Company
Year: 2007
Language: English
Pages: 309
Cover
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What if...Survival Guide for Physicians
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Copyright © 2007 by F. A. Davis Company......Page 3
Preface......Page 5
Contents......Page 6
First-Time Student Experiences
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What if...A patient or patient’s family thinks you’re a real doctor?
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What if . . .You feel faint at the bedside or in the operating room?
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What if . . .The first patient you’re assigned to examine refuses?
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What if . . .Your patient doesn’t speak English?
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What if . . .Your patient is violent?
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What if . . .You have to assist in an operation you’ve never seen before?
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What if . . .Your family member is diagnosed with cancer at your own facility?
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What if . . . You’re examining your first deaf patient?
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What if . . . You’re examining your first blind patient?
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What if . . . You’re being one-upped by another student during rounds?
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What if . . . You’re asked by a senior clinician, “Have you eve seen one of these done before”?
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What if . . . You’re on the “hotseat” during morning rounds with a professor, attending physician, or other senior clinician?
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What if . . .You feel the way that a colleague speaks to or about patients is inappropriate?
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What if . . . You’re faced with a tyrannical colleague?
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What if . . .It’s your first day in class or your residency and you feel your acceptance was an error and you don’t belong there?
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What if . . .You have been up too many hours and are having trouble thinking?
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What if . . . You’re failing or failed a course in medical school?
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Emergency!......Page 84
What if . . .You’re starting an IV and the catheter breaks off in the vein?
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What if . . .You get stuck witha dirty needle?
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What if . . .A patient has a cockroach or similar insect inher ear canal?
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What if . . .A patient, friend, or family member has a tick burrowed into his skin?
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What if . . . You’re examining a patient in the Emergency Department and you discover a gun tucked in his waistband (belt)?
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What if . . . You’re resuscitating a patient in a hospital and there is a gunman loose in the hallways?
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What if . . . Your morbidly obese patient needs a venous cutdown or other invasive procedure?
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What if . . . Someone collapse sat a social function you’re attending?
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What if . . .You have to deliver a baby outside the hospital?
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What if . . .The baby you just delivered outside the hospital isn’t breathing?
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What if . . . You’re present at an automobile accident?
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What if . . .A dinner guest is choking?
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What if . . .You need to help someone who’s a lawyer?
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What if . . . You’re asked to use an AED in an airplane or other public place?
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What if . . .You encounter an unanticipated allergic reaction?
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What if . . .Your companion has a nosebleed that won’t stop?
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What if . . .Your friend has a foreign body in the eye?
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One-on-One Encounters
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What if . . .A patient makes a sexual advance toward you?
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What if . . .A patient of the opposite sex doesn’t want you in the exam room?
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What if . . .You have to give a patient bad news?
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What if . . . A patient or family member asks you tough questions that you aren’t sure how to answer?
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What if . . .You think a patient is faking?
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What if . . . You’re developing inappropriate feelings toward a patient such as anger or attachment?
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What if . . .A patient is highly fearful of needles?
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What if . . .A patient threatens your life?
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What if . . .Your patient is upset with the care you’re providing?
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What if . . .You have to say “no” to a patient’s request?
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What if . . .A patient refuses treatment?
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What if . . .A patient is a herpetophile and brings a pet snake into the exam room?
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What if . . .You have to give a family very bad news?
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What if . . .The presence of a young child’s parents is getting in the way?
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What if . . .You think a pediatric patient is a victim of abuse?
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What if . . .You make a mistake with a patient?
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What if . . . There is a very bad outcome to a labor and delivery that you were involved with?
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Faraway Adventures
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What if . . . You’re miles from help on a mountain trail and you or your companion suffers a serious injury?
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What if . . .Your hiking companion suffers a shoulder dislocation?
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What if . . . You’re hiking or skiing at high altitude and you or a companion shows signs of severe altitude sickness?
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What if . . . Your hiking companion says, “I just can’t go any farther”?
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What if . . .You need to care fora snakebite victim on a mountain trail?
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What if . . .You have a close encounter with a bat?
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What if . . . You’re lost in the mountains and out of water?
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What if . . . You’re stranded overnight or longer?
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What if . . . You’re getting frostbite?
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What if . . .Your friend is struck by lightning?
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What if . . .Your friend suffers a fracture on a mountain trail?
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What if . . . You’re trapped by an avalanche?
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What if . . .Your friend is attacked by a wild animal?
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What if . . .You or a friend gets a jellyfish sting?
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What if . . .Your diving companion has severe tooth pain?
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What if . . .Your diving companion has severe vertigo?
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What if . . . Your diving companion has subconjunctival hemorrhages?
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What if . . . Your diving companion becomes ill the day after diving?
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What if . . .You or a friend falls through the ice?
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What if . . .You or your friend develops diarrhea in a foreign country?
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Index......Page 308
