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    Best Clinical Guide for Your Family and Your Doctor: The Helper in Critical Health Situations
    Best Clinical Guide for Your Family and Your Doctor: The Helper in Critical Health Situations
    Best Clinical Guide for Your Family and Your Doctor: The Helper in Critical Health Situations
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    Best Clinical Guide for Your Family and Your Doctor: The Helper in Critical Health Situations

    By Dr. Onyechela Ogbonna

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    About this ebook

    This is a quick guide to help for medical and non-medical personnel at the point of need in hospitals, clinics, and home settings. It has clinical case scenarios, questions, and answers.
    It includes a plan of action based on differential diagnoses at the point of need to help guide you during critical moments.
    This powerful medical reference note reminds doctors of the different diagnoses to consider and a plan for acute situations when a life is danger or the doctor is alone. When it is nighttime and there are no support specialists, or there is no time to open a large medical book or search the Internet, he still needs to act to save a life.
    This family health protection guide teaches how to understand when our beloved spouse, grandparents, children, or friends are not feeling well and how we can help them. It explains the causes of common health problems such as chest pain, headaches, slurred speech, and difficulty breathing. It offers helpful lifesaving actions.
    The book encourages healthy living advice, such as regular exercise, healthy diet, alcohol and smoking cessation, age appropriate vaccinations, mammograms, and other important health topics.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAuthorHouse
    Release dateApr 25, 2012
    ISBN9781468588064
    Best Clinical Guide for Your Family and Your Doctor: The Helper in Critical Health Situations
    Author

    Dr. Onyechela Ogbonna

    Onyechela Ogbonna, MD is a medical doctor with great clinical experience. He is board certified in internal medicine. He completed medical training at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in Queens, New York. Award Winner, Mount Sinai School of Medicine Research Day, on Clinical Presentation His current clinical duty includes direct care to thousands of patients and supervising medical residents, students, nurses, physician assistants, and APRNs. He does medical consultations in the emergency department for management of complex conditions. He advises patients and their families on health-related issues. He is a hospital physician based in Hartford Hospital, a major referral hospital in Hartford, Connecticut.

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      Best Clinical Guide for Your Family and Your Doctor - Dr. Onyechela Ogbonna

      Contents

      Introduction

      Clinical Scenario One

      Alcohol and Drugs:

      Family Health Guide

      Healthy Habits:

      Regular Exercise and a Healthy Diet

      Common Critical Hospital Situations for Medical Personnel

      Family Health Guide:

      Why Are All These Wires and Machines Connected To Me?

      Healthy Diet: Family Health Guide

      Chest Pain: Is He Having a Heart Attack? How Can I Help?

      Warning Signs of a Serious Medical Problem

      Why Your Doctor Says to Stop Using Tobacco

      Warning Signs of Serious Medical Problems

      Why Do I Need an Annual Physical?

      Secrets of Doctors Who Write Good History and Physical Reports

      Family Health Hints

      When It Is Time to Return Home

      Prepare Your Family for Major Disaster

      Medical References

      Disclaimer

      About the Author

      Introduction

      This is a quick guide to help for medical and non-medical personnel at the point of need in hospitals, clinics, and home settings. It has clinical case scenarios, questions, and answers.

      It includes a plan of action based on differential diagnoses at the point of need to help guide you during critical moments.

      This powerful medical reference note reminds doctors of the different diagnoses to consider and a plan for acute situations when a life is danger or the doctor is alone. When it is nighttime and there are no support specialists, or there is no time to open a large medical book or search the Internet, he still needs to act to save a life.

      This family health protection guide teaches how to understand when our beloved spouse, grandparents, children, or friends are not feeling well and how we can help them. It explains the causes of common health problems such as chest pain, headaches, slurred speech, and difficulty breathing. It offers helpful lifesaving actions.

      The book encourages healthy living advice, such as regular exercise, healthy diet, alcohol and smoking cessation, age appropriate vaccinations, mammograms, and other important health topics.

      Clinical Scenario One

      Mr. A. is a forty-five-year-old male. He was brought to the emergency department of

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