
Acute Care Casebook
Bret P. Nelson
Print publication date: Nov 2018
ISBN: 9780190865412
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Abstract
Acute Care Casebook provides a case-based approach to the broad practice of acute care medicine, covering a variety of common patient presentations and clinical environments. This book features over 70 illustrated cases, including presentations of trauma and medical illness in wilderness medicine, military and prehospital environments, pediatrics, emergency medicine, and intensive care unit and floor emergencies. Designed for students and trainees in medicine, nursing, emergency medical services, and other acute care specialties, this text guides readers through not only symptom evaluation and treatment but also the thought process and priorities of experienced clinicians. Each chapter features key diagnoses and management pearls from leading experts that will help prepare readers for any event, from stabilizing and transporting a trauma patient in the field, to managing postoperative complications in the intensive care unit.
Table of Contents
- Front Matter
- Section I Wilderness/Expedition Medicine
- Section II Prehospital
- Section III Emergency Department
- Section IV Intensive Care Unit
- Section V Medicine Floor
- Section VI Pediatric Clinic
- Section VII Military/Tactical
- Chapter 63 Primary Blast Injury
- Chapter 64 Secondary Blast Injury
- Chapter 65 Crush Injury
- Chapter 66 Abdominal Pain
- Chapter 67 Heat Stroke
- Chapter 68 Facial Disfiguration
- Chapter 69 Febrile Illness
- Chapter 70 Extremity Swelling and Altered Mental Status
- Chapter 71 Eye Injury
- Chapter 72 Dyspnea and Hemoptysis after a Rigorous, Open-Water Swim
- Chapter 73 Penetrating Chest Trauma
- End Matter