This textbook describes in detail the best and most current methods to care for patients in the emergency department, including initial evaluation, generation of differential diagnoses, problem solving, and management of challenging conditions based on presenting symptoms.
Providing the key to solving a wide range of problems in the home, the Home Emergency Guide features clear, user-friendly symptom charts to help readers determine whether to call an ambulance or a doctor, or to use self-help measures. From resuscitating a victim or making a sling to learning how to snake a toilet or dealing with a stovetop fire, as well as what to do in case of a hurricane, tornado, or earthquake, this all in one emergency guide explains what steps should be taken in order to keep the reader and family safe, before, during, and after the event.
For the fist time in 25 years, the Emergency Medicine Clinics of North America features an issue devoted entirely to the electrocardiogram (ECG) and its invaluable role to physicians on the front line. This inexpensive, easy to use tool yields a wealth of information to emergency medicine physicians. Traditional uses such as the diagnosis of dysrhythmia and acute coronary syndromes are expertly detailed, and nontraditional topics of ECG interpretation are also included such as detection of electrode misconnection and artifact. Don't miss this one!
The Rainbow Machine: tales from a neurolinguist's journal, by Andrew T. Austin, offers fascinating glimpses into the personal change work of a top NLP practitioner and registered nurse, in settings from mental hospitals, emergency rooms, and neurosurgery departments, to individual hypnosis and psychotherapy. Rollicking, creative, lively, funny, outrageous, touching, profound. A must read romp for anyone interested in therapy or personal change. Includes experiences and insights regarding a wide range of issues, including overeating and eating disorders, ADD, PTSD, rage, depression, schizophrenia, use of drugs, obsessions, compulsions, bedwetting, anxiety, dying, emergency room situations, narcissism, self-esteem, critical self-talk, hoarding, hysterical paralysis, agoraphobia, phobias, etc.
Which symptoms spell T-R-O-U-B-L-E? At the extreme, this book could be a lifesaver. At the least, it's a handy reference for when to call 911, head to the emergency room, or call your doctor.
This textbook describes in detail the best and most current methods to care for patients in the emergency department, including initial evaluation, generation of differential diagnoses, problem solving, and management of challenging conditions based on presenting symptoms.
