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Acute Care Casebook provides a case-based approach to the broad practice of acute care medicine, covering a variety of common patient presentations and clinical environments. This book features over 70 illustrated cases, including presentations of trauma and medical illness in wilderness medicine, military and prehospital environments, pediatrics, emergency medicine, and intensive care unit and floor emergencies. Designed for students and trainees in medicine, nursing, emergency medical services, and other acute care specialties, this text guides readers through not only symptom evaluation and treatment but also the thought process and priorities of experienced clinicians. Each chapter features key diagnoses and management pearls from leading experts that will help prepare readers for any event, from stabilizing and transporting a trauma patient in the field, to managing postoperative complications in the intensive care unit.Less

This resource contains relevant step-by-step information on how to detect, manage, and treat complications and emergencies during the perioperative period. Concisely written, highlighted sections on immediate management and risk factors reinforce essential points for easy memorization, while consistent organization and checklists provide ease of learning and clarity. Anesthesia providers will find this book an indispensable resource, describing assessment and treatment of life-threatening situations, including airway, thoracic, surgical, pediatric, and cardiovascular emergencies. The second edition contains a revised table of contents which presents topics in order of their priority during emergencies, as well as two new chapters on crisis resource management and disaster medicine.Less

Cardiothoracic Critical Care addresses major recent developments in cardiothoracic critical care, such as cardiovascular support, mechanical support (IABP, VADS, and ECMO), and drug therapies such as nitric oxide and other new inotropic agents. The management of postoperative bleeding is covered in detail, as it increasingly involves updated fluid and blood-product therapies, including blood preservation techniques such as cell salvage.Less

This online resource is a case-based guide to challenging areas in emergency medicine, and covers the core and sub-specialty areas, in particular the often grey areas of intensive care and paediatric emergency medicine. Complex cases are comprehensively examined from a multidisciplinary perspective with detailed consideration given to management options and the contemporary evidence base behind these decisions. An effective revision aid for MCEM and FCEM and a reference during workplace-based assessments, Challenging Concepts in Emergency Medicine highlights critical information through the use of boxed features: 'Learning points', 'Clinical tips', 'Evidence base', and 'Future advances'. Each chapter has been reviewed by a national or international expert in the field and they have provided an 'Expert commentary', giving a unique insight into how today's opinion leaders confront and deal with the very same management challenges that all clinicians can potentially face on a daily basis.Less

This resource provides practical guidelines for improving the success rates of airway managers of all specialties who use modern airway devices and techniques, and addresses various clinical scenarios that mimic the approach clinicians encounter at educational workshops. Sections address airway devices and techniques, awake intubation, algorithms of difficult airway management, pharmacologic adjuncts useful in airway management, equipment, preoxygenation, and patient positioning strategies to ensure effective airway management.Less

The second edition of this essential handbook provides a practical, accessible guide to all emergency situations encountered in paediatrics and neonatology, from the immediately life-threatening to the smaller but urgent problems that may arise.Less

The essential quick-referral guide for any medical professional providing immediate care for patients with sporting injuries.

This reference provides the on-call junior doctor with a rapid reference guide to the management of the key trauma topics.

Patients with acute critical illness are often cared for initially in the emergency department (ED), and the beginning actions can help alter outcomes hours, day and months later. This resource targets selected common or high risk critical condition or therapies needed to optimize ED care, using the newest research and experiences, and chapters are organized in a readable and user-friendly format, with each describing the topic, defining key terms, cutting edge and controversial aspects, and delivering pragmatic advice.Less

Emergency Medicine: Board Review is a comprehensive guide for preparing for the American Board of Emergency Medicine (ABEM) certification or ConCert recertification exam and for residents preparing for in-training examinations in Emergency Medicine. The text consists of over 950 multiple-choice questions organized into 20 chapters covering topics such as gastrointestinal, cardiovascular, and nervous system emergencies as well as various disorders. Chapters include questions, answers with detailed explanations, and test-taking tips to help better navigate a standardized exam. Questions are written in a case-based format that emulates the ABEM and ConCert exams and are supplemented by numerous figures, tables, and boxes.Less

Emergency radiology is a relatively new subspecialty. It is a blend of organ systems and modalities, with dedication to the immediate evaluation of patients with acute conditions. Emergency radiologists provide time-critical support to trauma surgeons and other acute-care providers, using the full gamut of imaging modalities to provide the best care. Emergency radiologists also constitute the core of worldwide tele-radiology services, providing off-hour coverage to institutions that lack sufficient staff to provide these services. Emergency radiology is also a new academic discipline, with emergency radiology faculty who are dedicated to research and the teaching of emergency imaging to medical students, residents and fellows.Less

Essentials of Toxicology for Health Protection is ideal as both a course resource for students and a reference for field professionals involved in responding to chemical incidents and local environmental concerns. Produced by Health Protection England, it offers a comprehensive and structured approach to dealing with toxicological problems worldwide. It covers both the basics of toxicology and its application to issues of topical concern such as contaminated land, food additives, and water and air pollution. Each chapter is composed by an expert in the field, making this an essential resource for all professionals in environmental public health, including: health protection consultants, specialists and trainees; public health practitioners; environmental health practitioners; environmental scientists; and staff of the emergency services, the water and waste industries, and other industrial and regulatory bodies.Less

This book is for the non-specialist who may see problems in the head and neck. The aim is to help the reader develop a targeted approach in assessment and management. Such patients may be seen in the emergency department, in general practice, or on the ward. Because true ‘emergencies’ in the head and neck (i.e. a life- or sight-threatening condition) are few in number, a more broadly defined remit has been used, to cover urgent and potentially worrying problems which may present acutely. Generally speaking, patients do not present with a ready-made diagnosis, but rather with either a symptom located to an anatomical region (e.g. toothache, lump, or headache), or an obvious problem (e.g. nose bleed or injury). This is the starting point in each of the anatomically based chapters (‘Common presentations’ and ‘Common problems and their causes’). For each symptom there are a number of possible causes and these are listed. The next section in each chapter (‘Useful questions and what to look for’) lists the important diagnostic elements in relation to each symptom. The aim is to equip the reader with the necessary knowledge to enable them to quickly and accurately triage and diagnose a symptom or clinical problem. The remainder of each chapter details how to examine each site, useful investigations, and some notes on the conditions. Management and referral is also covered. This book is particularly helpful for those unfamiliar with ‘acute conditions’ of the head and neck and for those preparing for clinical examinations.Less

Infectious Diseases Emergencies is a compact reference that summarizes the key topics of those infectious disease processes that are most commonly seen in emergency departments, clinics, and urgent care facilities. The opening section reviews principles of infectious disease management and general management of severe infections in acute and emergency environments. The following sections provide a “head-to-toe” synopsis of common infections presenting in both outpatient and acute care settings, including the following human areas: central nervous system; ear, nose, and throat; ocular; cardiovascular; pulmonary; gastrointestinal; genitourinary; skin and soft tissue; and bone and joint. The concluding sections discuss vector-borne infections, infections in special populations, bioterrorism, and finally antibiotic resistance. Each chapter covers some basic elements of the disease, epidemiology, diagnosis and tests, organisms involved, treatment, and other key issues. Concisely written and consistently organized chapters outline the most useful elements of diagnosis and treatment for easy memorization and clarity.Less

This title is a practical and comprehensive guide to the management of the acutely ill patient. It is a single source to the most up-to-date therapies and protocols. It presents the most recent treatment guidelines and evidence-based content that is up-to-date with the recent advances in clinical medicine. Topics covered include cardiac emergencies, respiratory emergencies, gastroenterological emergencies, renal emergencies, shock, neurological emergencies, infectious diseases, emergencies in human immunodeficiency virus, diabetes and endocrine emergencies, haematological emergencies, rheumatological emergencies, dermatological emergencies, psychiatric emergencies, drug overdoses, and practical procedures in acute medicine.Less

This resource provides practical, accessible guidelines on a huge range of situations that present to the emergency department. Deliberately precise and prescriptive, it gives up-to-date step-by-step advice on presentation, investigation, diagnosis, emergency treatment and further referral for adult and paediatric patients.Less

The Practice of Emergency and Critical Care Neurology follows patients from the very moment they enter the emergency department, where the neurologist makes on-the-spot decisions—to their admission to the neurologic intensive care unit (NICU), where neurointensivists assume full responsibility for patient care. The core of the book is devoted to specific disorders in critical care neurology. Each chapter is structured in a unique way, in that it focuses on diagnosis, interpretation of neuroimaging, first steps in management, problem-solving for deteriorating patients, and an estimation of outcome The book focusses on medical complications that can be expected for any patient with an acute serious neurologic illness. These complications involve a consuming part of day-to-day care and may endanger the patient in many ways. Practical advice is provided to manage them effectively. This book serves as a reference on care of the patient with a critical neurologic disorder, at risk of deterioration, and in need of immediate attention.Less

This title in the Core Principles of Acute Neurology series focuses on how certain neurologic conditions can inflict damage to other organ systems and what systemic complications most frequently jeopardize patients with primary neurological disorders. Providing Acute Care carefully summarizes the necessary orders and treatment plan and initial management of expected complications. Each system is discussed in a separate chapter and the crucial initial decisions are presented in an easy to read narrative. It provides a ready to use template and basic knowledge in patients sick enough to require close attention, but who do not need to be in an intensive care unit.Less

A comprehensive resource that covers all aspects of the assessment and management of patients in the resuscitation room of an Emergency Department.

Spine Imaging uses a classic, case approach to provide multimodality imaging studies and management guidance of spine pathologies for the consulting radiologist as well as the neurologist, orthopedist, or emergency clinician diagnosing and managing spinal patients. Eighty cases are organized into sections by pathological process and include a clinical description followed by discussion on radiological findings, clinical management, and a summary of key points. An additional section on imaging signs closes the volume. Cases address which image findings are clinically significant and which are not, how to understand the severity of an injury, and when additional advanced imaging is needed, making Spine Imaging an essential resource for board and recertification examination preparation.Less