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<p>Contributors vii</p> <p>Preface viii</p> <p>1 Unconsciousness and Coma 1<br /> <i>Roger Dalton</i></p> <p>2 Calf Pain 5<br /> <i>Francis Morris and Alan Fletcher</i></p> <p>3 Chest Pain – Cardiac 9<br /> <i>Nicki Doddridge</i></p> <p>4 High Fever 13<br /> <i>Rachel Foster</i></p> <p>5 Vaginal Bleeding 18<br /> <i>Sian Ireland and Karen Selby</i></p> <p>6 Transient Weakness 22<br /> <i>Carole Gavin</i></p> <p>7 Abdominal Pain – Epigastric 26<br /> <i>Duncan Drury</i></p> <p>8 Acute Headache 30<br /> <i>Tom Locker</i></p> <p>9 Acutely Painful Joint 34<br /> <i>Rachel Tattersall</i></p> <p>10 Chest Pain – Pleuritic 37<br /> <i>Claire Gardner and Kevin Jones</i></p> <p>11 Dizziness 41<br /> <i>Scott Davison</i></p> <p>12 The Intoxicated Patient 48<br /> <i>Sue Croft</i></p> <p>13 The Shocked Patient 52<br /> <i>Arun Chaudhuri</i></p> <p>14 Palpitations 57<br /> <i>Charles Heatley</i></p> <p>15 Low Back Pain 60<br /> <i>Richard Kendall</i></p> <p>16 Acute Confusion 64<br /> <i>Steve Goodacre</i></p> <p>17 Shortness of Breath 68<br /> <i>Kevin Jones and Claire Gardner</i></p> <p>18 Collapse of Unknown Cause 72<br /> <i>Peter Lawson</i></p> <p>19 Abdominal Pain 76<br /> <i>Suzanne Mason and Alastair Pickering</i></p> <p>Index 81</p>

<b>Francis Morris</b>, Consultant in Emergency Medicine, Northern General Hospital, Sheffield, UK. Lead editor of ABC of Clinical Electrocardiography. He is the Clinical Director of the Chest Pain Unit in Sheffiled and has written four book on aspects of emergency medicine. He is a regional representative of the British Association of Emergency Medicine. His main research interests are the management of chest pain, DVT and pulmonary embolus. <p><b>Alan Fletcher</b>, B Med Sci(Hons), MB ChB, MRCP, FFAEM. Appointed Consultant in Acute General Medicine and Emergency Medicine in 2004, Alan has clinical responsibilities in the Emergency Department and Medical Assessment Units. He is Sheffield Teaching Hospitals' Clinical Lead for Acute Medicine, Training Programme Director for Acute Medicine in the South Yorkshire Deanery, and Foundation Programme Director. Apart from an active teaching responsibility, he has research interests in the assessment of Nurse Practitioner competence and the value of acute medical admission.</p>

A practical guide to the diagnosis and treatment of acute symptoms and conditions, the <i>ABC of Emergency Differential Diagnosis</i> provides a step-by-step guide to emergency differential diagnosis for non-specialists in a hospital or primary care setting. <p>This new title in the <i>ABC</i> series covers the assessment, diagnosis, treatment, and management of the most common symptoms with 'walk through' diagnosis, clear learning outcomes, and easy to find treatment options.</p> <p>Using the familiar problem-based teaching approach for rapid assimilation of information, case studies in each chapter allow the reader to be sure that they have synthesised the information given and can apply it to clinical cases.</p>

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