The Essential Guide to Primary Care Procedures
Perform today’s essential office procedures with confidence! Packed with more than 1,500 full-color illustrations, The Essential Guide to Primary Care Procedures, 2nd Edition, is your go-to guide to more than 125 of the key medical procedures commonly performed in an office setting. This hands-on manual provides step-by-step, illustrated instructions for each procedure, as well as indications, contraindications, CPT codes, average U.S. charges for each procedure, and more. From the basic (cerumen removal and simple interrupted sutures) to the complex (colonoscopy and chest tube placement), this atlas covers the vast majority of skills you’ll use in your day-to-day practice. Stay up to date with new procedures and equipment, including dorsal penile block, peripheral nerve blocks, topical anesthesia, hand-held ultrasound, electrodessication and curettage, dermoscopy, aesthetic procedures, Wood's slide examination, and more. Perform procedures more effectively and avoid common mistakes with popular “pearls and pitfalls” sections. Go beyond the basics with coverage of complications, post-procedures and pediatric considerations, and evidence-based references in each chapter. Get complete, practical coverage in every chapter, including background information on each procedure; indications and contraindications; sequential instructions, pictures and illustrations of the procedure; bulleted pitfalls and pearls; suggested CPT codes and average charges; and references. More evidence based medicine, with referencing throughout the chapters and appendices. View handy compilations of information applicable to many procedures, recommendations, and other practical information in the appendices. A great reference for the novice proceduralist who is learning procedures, or for the establish clinician who wishes to update or brush up on their knowledge.
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The Essential Guide to Primary Care Procedures
Perform today’s essential office procedures with confidence! Packed with more than 1,500 full-color illustrations, The Essential Guide to Primary Care Procedures, 2nd Edition, is your go-to guide to more than 125 of the key medical procedures commonly performed in an office setting. This hands-on manual provides step-by-step, illustrated instructions for each procedure, as well as indications, contraindications, CPT codes, average U.S. charges for each procedure, and more. From the basic (cerumen removal and simple interrupted sutures) to the complex (colonoscopy and chest tube placement), this atlas covers the vast majority of skills you’ll use in your day-to-day practice. Stay up to date with new procedures and equipment, including dorsal penile block, peripheral nerve blocks, topical anesthesia, hand-held ultrasound, electrodessication and curettage, dermoscopy, aesthetic procedures, Wood's slide examination, and more. Perform procedures more effectively and avoid common mistakes with popular “pearls and pitfalls” sections. Go beyond the basics with coverage of complications, post-procedures and pediatric considerations, and evidence-based references in each chapter. Get complete, practical coverage in every chapter, including background information on each procedure; indications and contraindications; sequential instructions, pictures and illustrations of the procedure; bulleted pitfalls and pearls; suggested CPT codes and average charges; and references. More evidence based medicine, with referencing throughout the chapters and appendices. View handy compilations of information applicable to many procedures, recommendations, and other practical information in the appendices. A great reference for the novice proceduralist who is learning procedures, or for the establish clinician who wishes to update or brush up on their knowledge.
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The Essential Guide to Primary Care Procedures

The Essential Guide to Primary Care Procedures

by E. J. Mayeaux
The Essential Guide to Primary Care Procedures

The Essential Guide to Primary Care Procedures

by E. J. Mayeaux

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Perform today’s essential office procedures with confidence! Packed with more than 1,500 full-color illustrations, The Essential Guide to Primary Care Procedures, 2nd Edition, is your go-to guide to more than 125 of the key medical procedures commonly performed in an office setting. This hands-on manual provides step-by-step, illustrated instructions for each procedure, as well as indications, contraindications, CPT codes, average U.S. charges for each procedure, and more. From the basic (cerumen removal and simple interrupted sutures) to the complex (colonoscopy and chest tube placement), this atlas covers the vast majority of skills you’ll use in your day-to-day practice. Stay up to date with new procedures and equipment, including dorsal penile block, peripheral nerve blocks, topical anesthesia, hand-held ultrasound, electrodessication and curettage, dermoscopy, aesthetic procedures, Wood's slide examination, and more. Perform procedures more effectively and avoid common mistakes with popular “pearls and pitfalls” sections. Go beyond the basics with coverage of complications, post-procedures and pediatric considerations, and evidence-based references in each chapter. Get complete, practical coverage in every chapter, including background information on each procedure; indications and contraindications; sequential instructions, pictures and illustrations of the procedure; bulleted pitfalls and pearls; suggested CPT codes and average charges; and references. More evidence based medicine, with referencing throughout the chapters and appendices. View handy compilations of information applicable to many procedures, recommendations, and other practical information in the appendices. A great reference for the novice proceduralist who is learning procedures, or for the establish clinician who wishes to update or brush up on their knowledge.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781496318718
Publisher: Wolters Kluwer Health
Publication date: 05/04/2015
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 1052
File size: 159 MB
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Table of Contents

Urgent and Emergency Care

  • 1 Local Anesthesia Administration
  • 2 Field Block Anesthesia
  • 3 Digital Nerve Block Anesthesia
  • 4 Procedural (Conscious) Sedation
  • 5 Arterial Puncture and Line Placement
  • 6 Central Venous Catheter Placement
  • 7 Pulmonary Artery Catheter Placement
  • 8 Chest Tube Insertion
  • 9 Percutaneous Cricothyrotomy
  • 10 Incision and Drainage of Abscesses
  • 11 Lumbar Puncture
  • 12 Bone Marrow Biopsy
  • 13 Cardioversion
  • 14 Shoulder Reduction
  • 15 Exercise Treadmill Testing
  • 16 Fishhook Removal
  • 17 Endotracheal Intubation
  • 18 Mandibular Dislocation Reduction
  • 19 Office Spirometry
  • 20 Radial Head Subluxation (Nursemaid's Elbow) Reduction
  • 21 Ring Removal
  • 22 Thoracentesis
  • 23 Tick Removal
  • Dermatology

  • 24 Cryosurgery of the Skin
  • 25 Keloid and Hypertrophic Scar Treatment
  • 26 Earlobe Keloid Excision
  • 27 Punch Biopsy of the Skin
  • Aesthetic Procedures

  • 29 Botulinum Toxin Type A for Facial Rejuvenation
  • 30 Dermal Fillers for Facial Rejuvenation
  • 31 Laser Hair Removal
  • 32 Laser Photo Rejuvenation
  • 33 Microdermabrasion
  • 34 Radiosurgical Skin Surgery (LEEP)
  • 35 Sclerotherapy
  • Suture Techniques

  • 36 Basic Instrument Suture Tie
  • 37 Deep Buried Dermal Suture
  • 38 Simple Interrupted Suture
  • 39 Corner Suture
  • Skin Surgery

  • 45 Advancement Flaps
  • 46 Burow Triangle (Dog Ear) Repair
  • Nail Procedures

  • 62 Digital Mucous Cyst Removal
  • 63 Nail Avulsion and Matrixectomy
  • 64 Nail Plate and Nail Bed Biopsy
  • 65 Subungual Hematoma Drainage
  • 66 Paronychia Surgery
  • Gynecology and Urology

  • 67 Bartholin Gland Cyst and Abscess Treatment
  • 68 Cold Knife Conization of the Uterine Cervix
  • 69 Cervical Polyp Removal
  • 70 Endometrial Biopsy
  • 71 Colposcopy and Directed Cervical Biopsy
  • 72 Fitting Contraceptive Diaphragms
  • 73 Cervical Cryotherapy
  • 75 Hysteroscopic Female Sterilization with Microinsert (Essure)
  • 76 Treatment of Noncervical Human Papillomavirus Genital Infections
  • 78 Implanon (Etonogestrel Implant)
  • 79 Intrauterine Device Insertion and Removal
  • 80 Loop Electrosurgical Excisional Procedure
  • 83 Pessaries
  • 84 No-Scalpel Vasectomy
  • 85 Laparoscopic Tubal Cauterization
  • Gastroenterology

  • 87 Anoscopy with or without Biopsy
  • 88 Anal Cytology and High-Resolution Anoscopy
  • 89 Colonoscopy
  • 90 Esophagogastroduodenoscopy
  • 91 Flexible Sigmoidoscopy
  • 92 Treatment of Internal Hemorrhoids
  • 93 Pilonidal Cyst or Abscess Management
  • Eye, Ear, Nose, and Throat Procedures

  • 95 Anterior Epistaxis Treatment
  • 96 Cerumen Impaction Removal
  • 97 Chalazia Removal
  • 99 Flexible Fiber-Optic Nasolaryngoscopy
  • Musculoskeletal Procedures

  • 102 Carpal Tunnel Syndrome Injection
  • 103 De Quervain's Injection
  • 104 Extensor Tendon Injury Repair
  • 105 Greater Trochanteric Bursa Injection
  • 107 Olecranon Bursa Aspiration and Injection
  • Plantar Fascia Injection
  • 109 Shoulder Injection
  • 110 The Short Arm Cast 840 111 The Short Leg Cast
  • 112 Lower Extremity Splinting
  • 113 Upper Extremity Short Arm Splinting
  • Pediatrics

  • 120 Circumcision using the Plastibell Device
  • 121 Intraosseous Line Placement
  • 122 Pediatric Sedation
  • Appendices

    Index

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