edited by Ron M. Walls
Pocket Emergency Medicine is a handy pocket-sized looseleaf reference contains the essential information that residents and medical students in the emergency department need to have at their fingertips. The first section covers 57 chief complaints in alphabetical order. Other sections cover trauma, pediatric emergencies, environmental exposures, and airway management.
Information is presented in concise, rapid-access format, with easy-to-scan bulleted lists and tables. Chapters follow a standard structure—history, classic findings, critical studies, ED interventions, pearls, and references. The six-ring binder can accommodate the student’s or resident’s own notes.
Features of Pocket Emergency Medicine:
- Logically organised by presenting signs and symptoms
- Concise text with abundant bulleted lists and brief tables
- Standardized chapter format includes History, Classic Findings, Critical Studies, ED Interventions, Pearls & References
- Includes only the most needed facts for rapid retrieval of information
Contents
Chief Complaints
- Abdominal Pain
- Abnormal Acid-Base
- Abnormal Electrolytes
- Abscess
- Abuse
- Acute Renal Failure
- Alcohol
- Altered Mental Status
- Anaphylaxis
- Bites & Stings
- Bradycardia
- Cellulitis
- Chest Pain
- Constipation
- Cough
- Dehydration
- Depression
- Diarrhea
- Difficulty Swallowing
- Difficulty Walking
- Dizzy / Lightheaded
- Dysuria
- Ear: Pain / Ringing
- Epistaxis
- Eye: Pain / Red
- Facial Droop
- Fever
- Flank Pain
- Foreign Body
- GI Bleed
- Headache
- Hematuria
- Hemoptysis
- Hypertension
- Hypotension / Shock
- Jaundice
- Joint: Pain / Effusion
- Labor
- Laceration
- Leg: Pain / Swelling
- Low Back Pain
- Medical Clearance
- Nausea / Vomiting
- Needlestick
- Numbness / Tingling
- Overdose / Unknown Ingestions
- Packemaker Malfunction & AICD Firing
- Palpitations
- Rash
- Seizure
- Shortness of Breath
- Sickle Cell Crisis
- Sore Throat
- Stroke
- Syncope
- Tachycardia
- Testicular / Scrotal Pain
- Toothache
- Unresponsive
- Urinary Incontinence / Retention
- Vaginal Bleeding
- Vaginal / Penile Discharge
- Visual Changes
- Weak - focus
- Weak - generalisation
Trauma / Orthopaedic Head to Toe
- Head Injury
- Maxillofacial Injury
- Eye Injury
- Dental Injury
- Neck Trauma
- Spine Injury
- Upper Extremity Injury
- Thoracic Trauma
- Abdominal Trauma
- Genitourinary Trauma
- Hip / Pelvic Trauma
- Lower Extremity Trauma
Pediatrics
- Abdominal Pain
- Blue Baby
- Fever
- Jaundice
- Limp
- Nausea / Vomiting / Diarrhea
- Rash
- Seizure
Environmental Exposures
- Burn
- Carbon Monoxide Poisoning
- Decompression Sickness
- Electrical Injury
- High Altitude Illness
- Hypothermia
- Hyperthermia
- Lightening Injury
- Near Drowning
- Rabies Exposure
- Radiation Exposure
Pharmacology
- Local Anesthestics
- Analgesia
- Procedural Sedation
- Chemical Restraints
Index
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