Pocket Emergency Medicine, 3e

 The newly updated Pocket Emergency Medicine, 3rd Edition is full of the essential information every emergency department clinician should have at their side at all times. In a reader-friendly and portable format the chapters are organized around presenting conditions to better serve actual ED treatment situations. Each chapter begins with approach to a condition, followed by concise discussion of important diagnostic categories, then highlights the essential elements of history, physical examination, testing and treatment.

Features:

• Quick-reference outline format, lists, and tables aid quick treatment decision-making
• Topics include chief complaints listed in alphabetical order, including trauma, pediatric emergencies, environmental exposures, airway management, distraction injuries
• Chapters address multiple diseases, disorders and procedures, providing definition, history, evaluation, differential diagnosis, classic findings, critical studies, ED interventions, indications and contraindications, treatment and references
• Acronym table and differential diagnosis table boxed for quick access
• Clinical pearls throughout text offer important data and warnings on common clinical errors
• Appendices include abbreviations, PALS protocols, information on ICU meds, important antibiotics, formulas, and common ED procedures
• 6-ring binder with pockets for reader’s notes

SECTION I: CARDIOVASCULAR

1. Electrocardiography
2. Acute Coronary Syndrome (Overview)
3. STEMI
4. UA/NSTEMI
5. Prinzmeta’s (Variant) Angina
6. Cocaine-Induced Angina
7. Stress Testing
8. Cardiac Catheteriazation
9. Post PCI Complications
10. Post MI Complications
11. Pulmonary Embolism and DVT
12. CHF/Acute Pulmonary Edema
13. Aortic Dissection
14. Thoracic Aortic Aneurysm
15. Pericarditis and Pericardial Effusion
16. Cardiac Tamponade
17. Myocarditis
18. Syncope
19. Cardiac
20. Neurocardiogenic
21. Orthostatic Hypotension
22. Hypertension and Hypertensive Emergencies
23. Hypotension and Shock
24. Hypovolemic Shock
25. Cardiogenic Shock
26. Septic Shock
27. Neurogenic Shock
28. Dysrhythmia
29. Bradycardia
30. AV Node Block
31. Tachycardia/Palpitations
32. Pacemaker and AICD Malfunction

 
SECTION II: PULMONARY

1. Cough
2. Dyspnea (shortness of breath)
3. Hemoptysis

 
SECTION III: GASTROINTESTINAL

1. Abdominal Pain
2. Nausea and Vomiting
3. Gastrointestinal Bleed
4. Difficulty swallowing
5. Diarrhea
6. Constipation
7. Jaundice
8. Rectal Pain

 
SECTION IV: INFECTIOUS DISEASE

1. Fever
2. Abscess
3. Soft Tissue Infections
4. Viral Infections
5. Rabies
6. Tetanus
7. Parasitic Infections
8. Vector Borne Infections
9. Bioterrorism

 
SECTION V: NEUROLOGY

1. Altered Mental Status
2. Vertigo
3. Facial Droop
4. Headache
5. Seizure
6. Stroke

 
SECTION VI: RENAL & GENITOURINARY

1. Dysuria
2. Urinary Tract Infection
3. Flank Pain
4. Hematuria
5. Acute Renal Failure
6. Testicular Torsion/Torsion of Testicular Appendix
7. Phimosis and Paraphimosis
8. Priapism
9. Emergencies in Dialysis Patients

 
SECTION VII: OBGYN

1. Vaginal Bleeding
2. Pre-Eclampsia and Eclampsia
3. Hyperemesis Gravidarum
4. Emergency Delivery
5. Female Pelvic Pain
6. Vaginal Discharge (Sexually Transmitted Infection)
7. Pelvic Inflammatory Disease and Tubo-Ovarian Abscess

 
SECTION VIII: DERMATOLOGY

1. Rash
2. Viral Exanthems
3. Bacterial Exanthems
4. Fungal Exanthems
5. Allergic/Inflammatory Exanthems
6. Neoplastic/Other Exanthems
7. Dermatologic Emergencies

 
SECTION IX: ENDOCRINE & METABOLIC

1. Acid-Base Disorders
2. Abnormal Electrolytes
3. Hyperglycemic Emergencies (DKA/HHS)
4. Thyroid Emergencies
5. Adrenal Insufficiency

 
SECTION X: ENVIRONMENTAL

1. Dehydration
2. Bites and Stings
3. Occupational Exposure
4. Burns
5. Carbon Monoxide Poisoning
6. Dysbarism
7. Electrical Injury
8. High Altitude Illness
9. Hypothermia
10. Hyperthermia
11. Lightning Injury
12. Drowning
13. Botulism

 
SECTION XI: HEMETOLOGY & ONCOLOGY

1. Allergic Reactions, Anaphylaxis, and Angioedema
2. Oncologic Emergencies
3. Sickle Cell Disease
4. Abnormal Bleeding: Platelet Disorders and Coagulopathy
5. Transfusions, Reversal, Transfusion Complications
6. Approach to the Transplant Patient

 
SECTION XII: MUSCULOSKELETAL & RHEUMOTELOGICAL

1. Leg Pain and Swelling
2. Lower Back Pain
3. Joint Pain

 
SECTION XIII: OTOLARYNGOLOGY/DENTAL/OPHTHALMOLOGY

1. Ear Pain
2. Hearing Loss
3. Sore Throat
4. Sinusitis
5. Epistaxis
6. Eye Pain/Redness
7. Vision Change and Vision Loss
8. Toothache

 
SECTION XIV: PEDIATRICS

1. Resuscitation
2. Abdominal Pain
3. Cyanosis
4. Pediatric Fever
5. Jaundice
6. Limp
7. Pediatric Seizure
8. Nausea and Vomiting
9. Pediatric Meningitis
10. Neonatal Complaints
11. Congenital Cardiac Disease
12. Respiratory Complaints
13. Diabetic Ketoacidosis
14. Hypoglycemia
15. Fluid and Electrolyte Abnormalities
16. Pediatric Exanthems
17. Urinary Tract Infection

 
SECTION XV: PSYCHIATRIC PATIENT
 
SECTION XVI: TOXICOLOGY

1. General Approach to the intoxicated patient
2. Anticholinergic Ingestion
3. Psychopharmacologic Ingestion and Adverse Effects
4. Alcohol Ingestions
5. Drugs of Abuse
6. Analgesic Overdose
7. Cardiac Medication Overdose
8. Caustic Ingestions
9. Carbon Monoxide Poisoning and Methemoglobinemia
10. Hypoglycemics
11. Other Ingestions

 
SECTION XVII: AIRWAY MANAGEMENT

1. RSI
2. Cricothyrotomy

 
SECTION XVIII: TRAUMA

1. Primary Survey
2. Head Trauma
3. Maxillofacial Injury
4. Eye Injury
5. Neck Trauma
6. Cervical Spine Trauma
7. Thoracic/Lumbar/Sacral Spine Trauma
8. Thoracic Trauma
9. Abdominal Trauma
10. Genitourinary Trauma
11. Hip/Pelvic Trauma
12. Extremity Injury
13. Wound Management
14. Abuse

 
SECTION IXX: APPENDIX

1. Abbreviations
2. PALS
3. Mechanical Ventilation
4. Analgesia & Conscious Sedation
5. ICU Medications
6. Equations
7. Procedures