Clinical Emergency Medicine Casebook

This case-based approach to emergency medicine is a unique and underutilized teaching strategy, written for emergency room residents and nurses.

Joel T. Levis (Author), Gus M. Garmel (Author)

9780521719643, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 6 April 2009

506 pages, 265 b/w illus. 90 colour illus. 6 tables
27.8 x 21.6 x 2.8 cm, 1.63 kg

'The cases are taken from clinical practice … The patients seem real and the presentations are easy to read … The text provides a very enjoyable exercise of attempting to diagnose each case correctly … the variety is unlike that of other case presentation textbooks that so often focus of only unique pathology … the greatest strength is the quality of the visuals integrated throughout the presentations … I have never found this to be so consistently present in other texts … In conclusion, a great case presentation book filled with useful information for students, residents, and even the most experienced clinician is finally available.' Annals of Emergency Medicine

Emergency Medicine is not divided into specific areas of practice. Emergency room visitors come in all shapes and sizes, at any time of day or night, with a wide range of maladies. Emergency physicians need to become experts in diverse areas of medicine and to be able to make quick and informed decisions about patient care. A cornerstone of emergency medicine training is the constant drilling and re-drilling of simulated cases and clinical scenarios. This book offers a unique yet underutilized strategy for learning: a case-based approach from real patients and actual events. Each case provides the opportunity for learning essential clinical concepts. Focused exclusively on the needs of in-training emergency physicians and nurses, the book covers more than 100 common and unusual cases in emergency medicine. The procedures have been class-tested by the Stanford/Kaiser Emergency Medicine Residency Program.

Part I. HEENT (Head, Eyes, Ears, Nose and Throat)
Part II. Cardiology and Cardiovascular Surgery
Part III. Pulmonology
Part IV. Gastroenterology
Part V. Genitourinary and Gynecology
Part VI. Neurology and Neurosurgery
Part VII. Trauma
Part VIII. Orthopedics
Part IX. Hand
Part X. Pediatrics
Part XI. Infectious Disease
Part XII. Toxicology and Environmental
Part XIII. Miscellaneous.

Subject Areas: First aid & paramedical services [MQF], Nursing [MQC], Accident & emergency medicine [MMK]