Clinical quiz in emergency medicine / Kam Chuen Shek and Chak Wah Kam.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Shek, Kam Chuen.

Contributor:

Kam, Chak Wah.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Emergency medicine--Examinations, questions, etc.

Emergency medicine.

Medicine--Examinations, questions, etc.

Medicine.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (180 p.)

Place of Publication:

Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press ; London : Eurospan [distributor], 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Clinical Quiz in Emergency Medicine consists of 70 real cases encountered in local emergency department. Short history, clinical pictures, ECGs, X-rays, CT scans and ultrasound images are included and clinical questions are set from the emergency medicine (EM) perspective. Detail answers will be provided with references.

Contents:

Cover; Clinical Quiz in Emergency Medicine; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; About the authors; Abbreviations and symbols; 1. A 60-year-old man with severe interscapular back pain; 2. A 13-year-old boy with chin injury; 3. A 40-year-old woman with cat-bite wound; 4. A 12-year-old girl with left ankle sprain; 5. A 28-year-old man with left eye pain; 6. A 45-year-old man with painful swollen right thigh; 7. A 60-year-old woman with shortness of breath and fever; 8. An 18-year-old young man with shortness of breath and dizziness

9. A 50-year-old man with persistent headache and dizziness10. A 25-year-old man with syncope; 11. A 12-year-old boy with left hip pain; 12. A 50-year-old man with neck injury; 13. A 17-year-old young man with snakebite; 14. A 16-year-old girl with severe vaginal bleeding; 15. A 16-year-old boy with left eye injury; 16. A 65-year-old man with severe chest pain; 17. A 23-year-old man with neck injury; 18. A 43-year-old man with painful facial rash; 19. An 18-year-old young man with chest pain; 20. A 48-year-old man with severe chest pain; 21. A teenage girl with rash over the lower limbs

22. An 80-year-old man with right lower quadrant pain23. A 20-year-old man with palpitations; 24. A 6-year-old girl with diarrhoea; 25. An 18-year-old young woman with neck injury; 26. A 15-year-old girl with right elbow injury; 27. A 44-year-old man with head injury; 28. A 39-year-old woman with increasing swelling of face; 29. A 5-year-old boy with left facial pain; 30. A 42-year-old pregnant woman with repeated vomiting and dehydration; 31. A 50-year-old man with severe chest pain; 32. A 60-year-old woman with abdominal pain and vomiting; 33. A 5-year-old boy with high fever

34. A 45-year-old motorcyclist with anterior chest wall contusion35. A 68-year-old woman with drooling of saliva and left ear pain; 36. A 50-year-old man with confusion; 37. A 37-year-old woman with per vaginal bleeding and lower abdominal pain; 38. A 29-year-old man with palpitations; 39. A 39-year-old woman who attempted suicide by hanging; 40. A 50-year-old woman with insomnia and headache; 41. A 45-year-old motorcyclist with left foot injury; 42. A 9-day-old neonate with left eye discharge; 43. A 16-year-old boy with retrosternal chest pain and dizziness

44. A 38-year-old man with head injury45. A 13-year-old boy with right knee injury; 46. A 52-year-old man with numbness and spasm of four extremities; 47. An elderly woman with inability to close the mouth; 48. A 41-year-old woman with right hip injury; 49. A 55-year-old man with fever and cough; 50. A 62-year-old woman with dizziness and severe headache; 51. A 25-year-old man with chest pain; 52. A 48-year-old man with facial injury; 53. A 60-year-old man with dizziness and weakness; 54. An 11-year-old girl with left knee injury

55. A 75-year-old man with fever, hoarseness and difficulty in swallowing

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

1-282-70874-0

9786612708749

988-8052-12-8

OCLC:

647839099