Emergency! (Awesome Engines)

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Given the rapid dissemination of information through the internet, in policy guidelines, and from collaboration in practice, the question can be asked if Emergency Medicine books even relevant anymore? Old timers will remember traveling down (often in the basement) to the local academic or hospital library to research answers using a card catalog and dusty tomes with small print in them. While the the days of going to the library and digging through a giant ancient text are probably gone (except for in the most esoteric of specialties), there is a stabilizing role played by Emergency Medicine books in creating a foundation of knowledge. Take, for example, a chapter on small bowel obstructions. First, the chapter may go over the history and epidemiology of small bowel obstructions to paint a general overview of the disease. Then, the chapter will likely dive into the pathophysiology of the disease process. Following that, there will be some discussion of clinical features, including patient complaints and history and physical findings. To set the reader up to confirm that small bowel obstruction is the primary diagnostic consideration, there will often be a discussion of various diagnoses that should be considered as part of the differential diagnosis and what rules out related possible diagnoses. If what you’re looking for is a book that digs into the deepest depths of emergency medicine, then you would need to get a textbook on the subject rather than a handbook, which is usually much smaller. Here are some of the best emergency medicine textbooks available in the market. #1. Tintinalli’s Emergency Medicine At its simplest form, this form of teaching can be found in the algorithmic approaches used in ACLS to connect the chief complaint, cardiac arrest, with treatment. For example, in a “chief complaint” of cardiac arrest, the rhythm as determined by a machine leads to a clear, almost binary, decision point as far as the next step in management. ACLS, while interesting, is not necessarily the focus of most chief complaint books. Question and Answer books are highly useful when one is preparing for in-service and board exams or just general pimping on rounds. Most of these books present a highly specific question and then give you possible answers to select from. To challenge the reader even further, some of them offer the dreaded “None of the above” answer choice to make sure that you aren’t simply guessing through the process of elimination. EM Books & Modern Guidelines

Since emergency medicine is a wide field that is ever-changing, it’s important for you as a healthcare professional, student doctor, or student nurse to keep learning it and never stop. More importantly, regardless of your specialty you will witness medical emergencies (once in a while, at least), where you’d be expected to take actions that will save lives. And the knowledge of what to do in these situations must always be at your fingertips — your specialty notwithstanding. Most of us exist in considerable comfort in the West, particularly when compared to the rest of the world. When things go bad, and go from bad to worse, nearly nobody has a clue what to do about it. Far too many people will be counted among the first casualties. The unprepared masses could have learned a thing or two to keep themselves alive. I recommend you read this book simply so you can understand just how much we don't actually know about disaster situations and how to survive during and after them. I certainly learned a lot by the time I put 'Emergency' down. The rumor has never proven true, from what I can tell. Maybe it’s a ploy by someone with a few first editions to try and rarify it and drive up the value. Although I can’t personally prove it either way, I have to believe that someone who found it wouldn’t be against providing photographic or textual evidence. But it’s kind of a cool rumor anyway. An unusual part of the book is that there is an armchair treasure hunt incorporated into it. There are short sections written in comic book form, and each of these sections includes a clue that is supposed to reveal the location of a cache that Strauss buried at one point in the book. Because I’m a dork, I spent a good hour trying to find the clues, figure out what they meant, and then figure out where the cache is. After that, I have no idea still. Okay, that’s not totally true. I have some idea, but nothing of confidence, so I’ll let you all know when I find the damn thing because now it’s an obsession. I bet my girlfriend will appreciate taking a vacation to some woods to unbury a box, especially when I don’t have the right spot and we spend three days digging holes.

EM Books & Modern Guidelines

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Go to a pharmacy for advice and treatment for minor conditions that do not need a prescription. Read about how your pharmacy can helpKnowing what to do in emergency situations is a key requirement of the medical profession. Whether you’re a doctor or other healthcare professional, your knowledge of emergency medicine determines how much you’d be able to help in the reduction of avoidable mortalities that happen in emergency rooms — especially those that result from confusion or carelessness on the part of healthcare professionals. We asked ourselves these questions to help us filter all of the options out there before spending our hard earned money buying:1. Who are the principal authors and editors? Since pictures occupy less space, and yet do better at explanation than text, they have been generously employed in this handbook. So, expect to see lots of photographs and illustrations that will help you to better understand how to manage emergencies in a skillful and timely manner.

One highlight of Tintinalli’s Emergency Medicine is that it often digs into potentially forgotten topics that may have new relevancy as one gets more experience. As we are all aware, the initial phases of training in medicine involve a bunch of fact memorization, test taking, and then the forgetting of those facts to make room for new information. Then, over time, memorized facts become intuitive knowledge anchored by experiences and we find ourselves with more room for new information. Tintinalli’s Emergency Medicine plays to this knowledge evolution as it takes previously memorized concepts and articulates them in a way that a more experienced practitioner can appreciate. For example, there is a section on how fresh frozen plasma is prepared for clinical use – information that most providers have likely forgotten over the years but would nonetheless find interesting. Consequently, Tintinalli’s Emergency Medicine is a reference that can be utilized as a reference by both novice and expert practitioners. Also, this book made me think about new ideas to take my blogging and journaling to the next level. 2018 is going to be an interesting reading where I'll do my best to write things worth reading and do things worth writing. The author, I imagine, wanted to learn how to fight and shoot guns and live in the wild, and then he thought, "I should write a book about, and get paid doing, that." The Guardian calls these "stunt books." Considering Strauss's previous work, "The Game," is one of my favorites of all time and also a stunt book, they can work. Here, though, I don't think it does, because I don't believe most of what Strauss says he learned and did; I find his path to wildernessman to be abrupt and somewhat fake. Neil Strauss is probably best known for writing 'The Game', but this is the book that comes up in conversations rather frequently for me. With the tagline “This book will save your life”, the very least it will do is get you thinking how to better prepare yourself against a statistically probable premature death during a catastrophe of some kind. A tough look at survivability during breakdowns of civility and society, this book opens your eyes to just how easily things might fall apart at any given time. The vast majority of us won’t be ready or equipped to handle a world gone wrong, but Strauss aims to change that. The things I learned from this book I still recount to others today.While some Emergency Medicine books (particularly larger volumes like Rosen’s) incorporate multiple teaching strategies in their chapters to convey their information, most books use just one approach. We organize Emergency Medicine books into 3 teaching approaches: disease-focused, chief complaint, and question and answer. Let’s take a closer look. If more people read a book like this, societies might be better able to handle shit hitting the fan. If or when everything goes south, do you have a plan? The principal authors and editors of the book help give you a sense of whether the contributors to the book practice in academic or community settings (or both). While academic contributors are typically current on recommended best practices in Emergency Medicine, community Emergency Medicine contributors sometimes provide gritty, street-level insights on how theoretical Emergency Medicine is applied in community-oriented situations. Minor Emergencies: Expert Consult is a relatively new addition to the slowly changing Emergency Medicine book market. Minor Emergencies covers a hundreds of minor disease presentations in a compact manner. Minor Emergencies utilizes outlines, illustrations and bullet points to cover material and pairs content with commentary using evidence-based medicine. Useful before or during an ED shift, Minor Emergencies is a concise refresher for relevant details related to minor care. Some might argue that this text has even more application in less acute settings such as an urgent care or clinic. A smaller version of the Tintinalli’s Emergency Medicine textbook, this handbook covers the most clinically relevant aspects explained in the main textbook. Rendered in full color, the handbook covers the full spectrum of emergency care in different categories of people: adults, children, pregnant women, etc. And being a summarized version of the main textbook, its chapters are concise and focus on clinical presentations, their differential diagnoses, and emergency management protocols.

In disease-focused Emergency Medicine books, details about emergency conditions are organized around a disease process. The underlying assumption made in these books is that one has been able to achieve a likely diagnosis on a case and now the text will go into different aspects of the disease process (in varying levels of detail, depending on the book).

The Value of Emergency Medicine Books

In most cases, the materials and recommendations in Emergency Medicine textbooks are typically written by well-respected individuals, are thoroughly researched, and pass the sniff test of being within the boundaries of accepted practice. In the circumstance that one faces a medical malpractice situation around a case gone wrong, established textbooks will often be referenced and heavily utilized as the baseline standard of care for the practice of Emergency Medicine. Assuming one is not referencing a long outdated text, the Emergency Medicine book then plays a foundational role in anchoring decisions one made during a difficult case. Whether you enjoy this book will probably depend on whether you like the author, I started suspicious I was going to find him vapid and self-obsessed but that opinion was changed by his self-deprecating humour and eventual conclusion.