Special Operations Forces Medical Handbook
3-26 Follow-up Actions Return evaluation: Follow patients closely on daily basis for signs of improvement or worsening Evacuatio ...
3-27 meningitis. Plan: Treatment Preseptal cellulitis: levofloxacin 500 mg po once a day, expedite evacuation if no improvement ...
3-28 Occult ruptured globe - suspect with history of blunt or impaling injury, dark uveal tissue exposed at junction of cornea a ...
3-29 Patient Education General: Discuss the level of injury with the patient but do not give prognosis in diseases that should b ...
3-30 Interpretations Depressed patient will be less likely to engage the clinician and may have decreased personal hygiene. Vit ...
3-31 Melatonin helps restore abnormal circadian rhythms resulting from shift work or jet lag. Primitive: Sunglasses that block U ...
3-32 relapsing fever, rheumatic fever Chronic (>30 days): Tuberculosis, leishmaniasis, visceral amebic liver abscess, trypano ...
3-33 Acutely Ill Patient Temp > 101°F Petechiae, Purpura, Ecchymoses and/or Jaundice present NO YES Possible Hemorrhagic Fev ...
3-34 Treat for Rickettsial Infection Consider Typhoid Treatment Consider Scarlet Fever if Pharyngitis Consider Syphilis if Ge ...
3-35 respirations>20/minute and at least one sign of end organ dysfunction; mental status changes, pulse oximetry <90%, ur ...
3-36 ...
3-37 Symptom: GYN Problems: Female Pelvic Examination MAJ Ann Friedmann, MC, USA When: As indicated per differential diagnosis, ...
3-38 meticulous exam be performed in asymptomatic areas. Position the patient in low lithotomy. The head may be elevated 30-60° ...
3-39 it side to side by grasping the cervix between the 2 examining fingers. The ovaries may be palpated by moving the vaginal h ...
3-40 Bimanual Pelvic Examination Rectovaginal Examination Suprapubic pressure applied approx. halfway between umbilicus and pubi ...
3-41 to pelvic examination. Pregnancy - always rule out first Anatomic abnormalities - uterine fibroids, uterine and cervical po ...
3-42 disease or a non-GYN cause such as appendicitis. All of these situations require close observation for possible surgical in ...
3-43 Inflammatory Bowel Disease or Irritable Bowel Syndrome- abdominal pain rarely sudden in onset; will have a past history of ...
3-44 abdominal pain not related to menses, heavy menstrual bleeding, irregular vaginal bleeding and bleeding after intercourse. ...
3-45 Primary Dysmenorrhea - a major cause of chronic pelvic pain and the easiest to diagnose. Dysmenorrhea (painful menstruation ...
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