The Essential Guide to Primary Care Procedures

• 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 (Nursemaids 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 Quervains 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