Category: Emergency Medicine

Decision Making in Emergency Medicine: Biases, Errors and Solution

Decision Making in Emergency Medicine: Biases, Errors and Solution

Decision Making in Emergency Medicine: Biases, Errors and Solution

The medical book covers various scenarios when errors, biases and systemic barriers prevail in emergency medicine, discusses their impact, and then offers solutions to mitigate their undesired outcomes. The process of clinical reasoning in emergency medicine is a complex exercise in cognition, judgment and problem-solving that is prone to mistakes. The book presents various cases written by a team of emergency specialists and trainees in an engaging format that is helpful for the practicing and teaching emergency doctor and trainees.

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The medical book discusses 60 different types of biases and errors with clinical cases, and knowledge of strategies to mitigate them—a concept known as ‘cognitive debiasing’ that has the potential to reduce diagnostic error, and therefore, morbidity and mortality. It aims to help the readers during assessment of patients in the emergency department. Each chapter includes 4 cases illustrating the bias, error or barrier discussed, followed by a potential solution.

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Annual Update in Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine 2021

Annual Update in Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine 2021

Annual Update in Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine 2021

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The Annual Update compiles reviews of the most recent developments in experimental and clinical intensive care and emergency medicine research and practice in one comprehensive book. The chapters are written by well recognized experts in these fields. The book is addressed to everyone involved in internal medicine, anesthesia, surgery, pediatrics, intensive care and emergency medicine.

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Electrocardiography in Emergency, Acute, and Critical Care

Electrocardiography in Emergency, Acute, and Critical Care

Electrocardiography in Emergency, Acute, and Critical Care

This medical book on ECG interpretation and how to teach it-know from experience what should happen at the bedside, and they show it to you in a clear and practical way. They want you to be confident about reading ECGs. They want you to save lives-and they know you will.

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Highlights from this edition of medical book: 18 completely revised and updated chapters | High-yield key points at the beginning of each chapter | More than 200 ECG images with explanations of important findings | More than 80 charts and tables for quick illustration of key ECG and patient characteristics | 27 expert contributors.
WHAT’S IN IT?

  • The ECG and Clinical Decision-Making in the Emergency Department
  • Intraventricular Conduction Abnormalities
  • Bradycardia, Atrioventricular Block, and Sinoatrial Block
  • Narrow Complex Tachycardias
  • Wide Complex Tachycardias
  • Acute Coronary Ischemia and Infarction
  • Additional-Lead Testing in Electrocardiography
  • Emerging Electrocardiographic Indications for Acute Reperfusion
  • ACS Mimics Part I: Non-ACS Causes of ST-Segment Elevation
  • ACS Mimics Part II: Non-ACS Causes of ST-Segment Depression and T-Wave Abnormalities 
  • Pericarditis, Myocarditis, and Pericardial Effusions
  • Preexcitation and Accessory Pathway Syndromes
  • Inherited Syndromes of Sudden Cardiac Death
  • Pacemakers and Pacemaker Dysfunction
  • Metabolic Abnormalities: Effects of Electrolyte Imbalances and Thyroid Disorders on the ECG
  • The ECG in Selected Noncardiac Conditions
  • The ECG and the Poisoned Patient
  • The Pediatric ECG

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Emergency Medical Services, 2 Volumes 3rd Edition

Emergency Medical Services, 2 Volumes 3rd Edition

Emergency Medical Services, 2 Volumes 3rd Edition

The two-volume  medical book “Emergency Medical Services: Clinical Practice and Systems Oversight delivers a thorough foundation upon which to succeed as an EMS medical director and prepare for the NAEMSP National EMS Medical Directors Course and Practicum. Focusing on EMS in the ‘real world’, the book offers specific management tools that will be useful in the reader’s own local EMS system and provides contextual understanding of how EMS functions within the broader emergency care system at a state, local, and national level.

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This medical book offer the core knowledge trainees will need to successfully complete their training and begin their career as EMS physicians, regardless of the EMS systems in use in their areas. A companion website rounds out the book’s offerings with audio and video clips of EMS best practice in action. Readers will also benefit from the inclusion of:

  • A thorough introduction to the history of EMS
  • An exploration of EMS airway management, including procedures and challenges, as well as how to manage ventilation, oxygenation, and breathing in patients, including cases of respiratory distress
  • Practical discussions of medical problems, including the challenges posed by the undifferentiated patient, altered mental status, cardiac arrest and dysrhythmias, seizures, stroke, and allergic reactions
  • An examination of EMS systems, structure, and leadership

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100 Cases in UK Paramedic Practice

100 Cases in UK Paramedic Practice

100 Cases in UK Paramedic Practice

Pre-hospital care plays an increasingly important part in contemporary healthcare delivery and the skills of paramedics, emergency medical technicians and emergency care assistants are a vital part of this. This casebook supports readers to develop the necessary assessment and decision-making skills they need in order to effectively manage a variety of cases typically seen in UK paramedic practice.

100 Cases in UK Paramedic Practice allows for learning and revision through 100 scenarios which aim to encompass cases that may be seen in daily practice. The book covers scenarios that can occur at any moment of the day, from an ambulance shift to primary care settings to event standby duties. The bite-size structure of this book allows the reader to focus on body systems or random case scenarios, depending on their preference.

This is an essential, evidence-based guide for students of pre-hospital care and a useful reference for qualified staff as a source of continued professional development or as a revision tool.

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Endocrine Emergencies 1st Edition

Endocrine Emergencies 1st Edition

Endocrine emergencies are often potentially life-threatening and can be easily overlooked in patients with no history of endocrine disease. Endocrine Emergencies is a practical guide to identification and treatment for today’s clinicians, offering essential coverage of common and serious emergencies related to endocrine metabolic conditions of the thyroid, parathyroid, pituitary, and adrenal glands.

  • Guides clinicians on how to recognize, diagnose, and treat each condition using up-to-date diagnostic techniques and therapeutics.
  • Provides full-color, state-of-the-art coverage of key topics such as acute thyrotoxicosis and thyroid storm, ocular emergencies in Graves’ ophthalmopathy, diabetic ketoacidosis, hypopituitarism, postoperative thyroid surgical emergencies, pheochromocytoma, and much more.
  • Features separate chapters on emergencies related to neuroendocrine tumors, pregnant patients, and pediatric patients.
  • Includes sections on emergency overview, symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment in each chapter.
  • Enhanced eBook version included with purchase. Your enhanced eBook allows you to access all of the text, figures, and references from the book on a variety of devices.

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The Clinical Guide in the Emergency Room: Part 2: Clinical Classifications and Scores

The Clinical Guide in the Emergency Room: Part 2: Clinical Classifications and Scores

this medical book is the guide of the lonely junior resident during the night shift. We assume that you have a good grasp of the basic medical knowledge. So, we won’t discuss any theoretical aspects, mechanism of action or any other boring topics.  All clutter has been ripped down leaving the very core of the addressed topics, bearing in mind the old – but still true idiom; “common is common”. In this book, you will find only the most common answers to the most common questions asked by younger colleagues.

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Atlas of Emergency Medicine 5th Edition

Atlas of Emergency Medicine 5th Edition

The Atlas of Emergency Medicine is your “look quick, act fast” guide to accurately diagnosing acute medical problems in emergency practice settings. Packed with the highest-quality images available and fully updated clinical information, this is the definitive resource to assessing, diagnosing, and treating patients quickly, safely, and effectively.

Top experts in their field, the authors cover basic and subtle diagnosis of a broad spectrum of typical and atypical conditions. Organized by organ-system/special populations/general issues and then by problem, The Atlas of Emergency Medicine includes one or more images per topic, succinct “need-to-know” information for each clinical problem, and management options and clinical pearls―making this the most efficient visual learning guide you’ll find.

This updated edition includes streamlined text to allow for more images, new chapters on Rheumatologic and Mental Health Conditions, and new video clips highlighting the most important topics.

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Avoiding Common Errors in Pediatric Emergency Medicine

Avoiding Common Errors in Pediatric Emergency Medicine

Avoiding Common Errors in Pediatric Emergency Medicine

Conversational and easy to read, Avoiding Common Errors in Pediatric Emergency Medicine discusses 198 errors commonly made in the practice of pediatric emergency medicine and gives practical, easy-to-remember tips for avoiding these pitfalls. This unique manual offers brief, approachable, evidence-based chapters suitable for reading immediately before the start of a rotation, for quick reference on call, or daily for personal assessment and review.

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  • Covers nuanced topics specific to the care of children in the emergency setting, including treatment strategies, procedure competencies, distinct pathophysiology, and disease processes.
  • Discusses the crashing patient, ultrasound and imaging, community and legal issues, applied practice, behavioral health, and medication/pharmacy topics.
  • Summarizes each chapter with handy key points that present must-know information in an easy-access, bulleted format.
  • Helps prevent clinical practice errors in the ED due to applying an adult management approach instead of a directed pediatric approach.
  • Ideal for emergency medicine physicians, residents, and attendings; emergency nurse practitioners, PAs who practice in the ED, and pediatricians.

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Tarascon Pediatric Emergency Pocketbook 7th Edition

Tarascon Pediatric Emergency Pocketbook 7th Edition

 

The Tarascon Pediatric Emergency Pocketbook, Seventh Edition is a meticulously referenced, convenient guide to managing ill or injured children. It features updated guidelines that cover anaphylaxis, hereditary angioedema, head trauma, diabetic ketoacidosis, colic, endocarditis prophylaxis, jaundice, bleeding disorders, oncologic emergencies, hypertension, HIV exposure, and febrile and non-febrile seizures.

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Used at bedside, the Seventh Edition, continues to outline the diagnosis and management for almost all emergencies occurring in infants and children with expanded commentary regarding current controversies in this field. The Tarascon Pediatric Emergency Pocketbook, Seventh Edition is an ideal companion for practitioners in the emergency room or in a family practice setting.

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