Emergency medicine casebook / Leung Ling Pong.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Leung, Ling Pong.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Emergency medicine--Case studies.

Emergency medicine.

Internal medicine.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (155 p.)

Place of Publication:

Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press, c2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book is a new and rapidly developing specialty. The fast patient flow, the large patient load, and the diversified clinical presentation make the emergency department a challenging place to work in.

Contents:

Contents; Preface; 1 Body packing; 2 A not-to-miss cause of epistaxis; 3 Drug overdose; 4 Penetrating chest injury; 5 Hypothermia; 6 Stridor in a child; 7 A patient with myocardial infarction and a pacemaker; 8 Opioid withdrawal; 9 Neonatal resuscitation; 10 Head injury; 11 The elderly patient; 12 Cardiac tamponade; 13 Asthma in pregnancy; 14 An amputated finger; 15 Neuroleptic malignant syndrome; 16 Hypoglycaemia; 17 Gas inhalation; 18 Hyperventilation syndrome; 19 The seat-belt sign; 20 A deadly complication of acne; 21A case of arson; 21 A case of arson; 22 Smoke inhalation

23 Benzodiazepine overdose24 Confusion in head injury; 25 Use of naloxone; 26 Fracture of the first rib; 27 Streptokinase and menstruating women; 28 Back pain; 29 Hypotension in myocardial infarction; 30 Pseudocoma; 31 Capnography; 32 Refractory ventricular fibrillation; 33 Ethics on resuscitation; 33 Ethics on resuscitation; 34 Spinal cord injury; 35 Human bite wounds; 36 Sternoclavicular joint dislocation; 37 Non-accidental injury; 38 HIV exposure in health-care workers; 39 Some questions on AIDS; 40 Abdominal injury; 41 Trauma score; 42 Oxygen; 43 Adolescent pregnancyr; 44 Digoxin toxicity

45 Litigation in emergency medicine46 Pacing in bradycardia; 47 Breaking bad news; 48 A drunk patient; 49 Pre-hospital trauma care; 50 Pulse oximetry; 51Gastrointestinal decontamination; 52 Paediatric cardiorespiratory arrest; 53 Stab wounds of the chest; 54 The vital signs in stroke; 55 Compartment syndrome; 56 Anaphylaxis; 57 Necrotizing infection; 58 Falls from heights; 59 Change in ABC; 60 Streptokinase in myocardial infarction; 61 RV infarction; 62 Post-coital headache; 63 Foreign-body ingestion; 64 ALTE; 65 Tall T wave on ECG; 66 Status epilepticus and failed intubation

67 Low back pain68 Insomnia; 69 Non-surgicall causes of abdominal pain; 70 Fat embolism; 71 Re-expansion pulmonary edema; 72 Chest pain in paediatrics; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-282-70410-9

9786612704109

988-220-120-2

OCLC:

647930746