Emergency Medicine Secrets
- 7th Edition - May 20, 2021
- Editors: Katherine M. Bakes, Jennie A. Buchanan, Maria E. Moreira, Richard Byyny, Peter T. Pons
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 6 9 4 7 3 - 5
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 6 9 4 7 4 - 2
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Request a sales quoteFor more than 30 years, the highly regarded Secrets Series® has provided students and practitioners in all areas of health care with concise, focused, and engaging resources for quick reference and exam review. Emergency Medicine Secrets, 7th Edition, offers practical, up-to-date coverage of the full range of essential topics in this dynamic field. This highly regarded resource features the Secrets’ popular question-and-answer format that also includes lists, tables, pearls, memory aids, and an easy-to-read style – making inquiry, reference, and review quick, easy, and enjoyable.
Approx. 35 illustrations
Medical students
- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Editors
- Contributors
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Top 100 secrets
- List of Illustrations
- List of Tables
- 1. Decision Making in Emergency Medicine
- 1. Decision making in emergency medicine
- Questions
- Bibiliography
- 2. Adult cardiac arrest
- Questions
- Bibiliography
- 3. Airway management
- Questions
- Bibliography
- 4. Shock
- Questions
- Bibliography
- 5. Emergency ultrasound
- Questions
- Bibliography
- 6. Geriatric emergency medicine
- Questions
- Bibliography
- 7. Palliative care and advance directives
- Palliative care
- Questions
- Bibliography
- 8. Research methods and how to critically review emergency medicine literature
- Questions
- Bibliography
- 9. Evidence-based rational use of diagnostic imaging
- Questions
- Bibliography
- 10. Emtala, the joint commission, and hipaa
- Emergency medical treatment and labor act
- The joint commission
- Health insurance portability and accountability act
- Risk management
- Questions
- Bibliography
- 11. Emergency medicine observation medicine
- Questions
- Bibliography
- 12. Performance evaluation and improvement in emergency medicine
- Questions
- Bibiliography
- 13. Professionalism and social media applications
- Questions
- Bibiliography
- 2. Primary Complaints
- 14. Altered mental status and coma
- Questions
- Bibiliography
- 15. Fever
- Questions
- Bibiliography
- 16. Chest pain
- Acknowledgments
- Questions
- Bibiliography
- 17. Abdominal pain, nausea, and vomiting
- Abdominal pain
- Nausea and vomiting
- Questions
- Bibiliography
- Abdominal pain
- Nausea and vomiting
- 18. Headache
- Questions
- Bibiliography
- 19. Syncope, vertigo, and dizziness
- Acknowledgment
- Questions
- Bibiliography
- 20. Seizures
- Questions
- Bibiliography
- 21. Anaphylaxis
- Questions
- Bibiliography
- 22. Low back pain
- Questions
- Bibiliography
- 3. Nontraumatic Illness
- 23. Nontraumatic ocular emergencies
- Questions
- Bibiliography
- 24. Nontraumatic ear, nose, and throat emergencies
- Epistaxis
- Foreign bodies
- Sinusitis
- Epiglottitis
- Otitis externa
- Peritonsillar abscess
- Acute mastoiditis
- Acknowledgment
- Questions
- Bibiliography
- 25. Dental and oral surgical emergencies
- Acknowledgment
- Questions
- Bibiliography
- 4. Central Nervous System
- 26. Transient ischemic attack and cerebrovascular accident
- Questions
- Bibliography
- 27. Meningitis
- Questions
- Bibliography
- 5. Respiratory System
- 28. Breathing and ventilation
- Acknowledgment
- Questions
- Bibliography
- 29. Asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and pneumonia
- Asthma
- Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
- Pneumonia
- Questions
- Bibliography
- Asthma
- COPD
- Pneumonia
- 30. Venous thromboembolism
- Questions
- Bibliography
- 6. Cardiovascular System
- 31. Congestive heart failure and acute pulmonary edema
- Questions
- Bibliography
- 32. Ischemic heart disease
- Questions
- Bibliography
- 33. Cardiac dysrhythmias, pacemakers, and implantable defibrillators
- Questions
- Bibliography
- 34. Hypertension, hypertensive emergency, aortic dissection, and aortic aneurysms
- Hypertension and hypertensive emergency
- Aortic dissection and aneurysms
- Abdominal aortic aneurysm
- Questions
- Bibliography
- 35. Pericarditis and myocarditis
- Pericarditis
- Myocarditis
- Questions
- Bibliography
- 7. Gastrointestinal Tract
- 36. Esophagus and stomach disorders
- Questions
- Bibliography
- 37. Bowel disorders
- Questions
- Bibliography
- 38. Liver and biliary tract disease
- Acknowledgments
- Questions
- Bibliography
- 8. Genitourinary Tract
- 39. Renal colic and scrotal pain
- Questions
- Bibliography
- 40. Acute urinary retention
- Acknowledgments
- Questions
- Bibliography
- 41. Urinary tract infection: Cystitis, pyelonephritis, and prostatitis
- Acknowledgments
- Questions
- Bibliography
- 42. Renal failure
- Questions
- Bibliography
- 9. Hematology/Oncology
- 43. Hemostasis and coagulopathies
- Questions
- Bibliography
- 44. Sickle cell disease
- Acknowledgment
- Questions
- Bibliography
- 45. Oncologic emergencies
- Questions
- Bibliography
- 10. Metabolism and Endocrinology
- 46. Fluids and electrolytes
- Questions
- Bibliography
- 47. Acid-base disorders
- Acknowledgment
- Questions
- Bibliography
- 48. Diabetes mellitus
- Questions
- Bibliography
- 49. Thyroid and adrenal disorders
- Questions
- Bibliography
- 11. Infectious Disease
- 50. Sepsis syndromes and toxic shock
- Questions
- Bibliography
- 51. Soft-tissue infections
- Acknowledgment
- Questions
- Bibliography
- 52. Sexually transmitted infections and human immunodeficiency virus
- Questions
- Bibliography
- 53. Tetanus, botulism, and foodborne illnesses
- Tetanus
- Botulism
- Foodborne illnesses
- Acknowledgment
- Questions
- Bibliography
- 54. Travel medicine and vector-borne diseases
- Acknowledgment
- Questions
- Bibliography
- 55. Arthritis
- Acknowledgment
- Questions
- Bibliography
- 56. Skin diseases
- Acknowledgments
- Questions
- Bibliography
- 12. Environmental Emergencies
- 57. Lightning and electrical injuries
- Lightning injuries
- Electrical injuries
- Acknowledgment
- Questions
- Bibliography
- 58. Drowning
- Questions
- Bibliography
- 59. Hypothermia and frostbite
- Hypothermia
- Frostbite
- Questions
- Bibliography
- 60. Heat illness
- Questions
- Bibliography
- 61. Altitude illness and dysbarisms
- Questions
- Bibliography
- 13. Neonatal and Childhood Disorders
- 62. Evaluation of fever in children younger than age three
- Questions
- Bibliography
- 63. Seizures in infancy and childhood
- Questions
- Bibliography
- 64. Acute respiratory disorders in children
- Questions
- Bibliography
- 65. Pediatric gastrointestinal disorders and dehydration
- Questions
- Bibliography
- 66. Pediatric infectious diseases
- Questions
- Bibliography
- 67. Emergency department evaluation of child abuse
- Physical abuse
- Sexual abuse
- Reporting concerns for child abuse
- Questions
- Bibliography
- 68. Procedural sedation and analgesia of the pediatric patient
- Questions
- Bibliography
- 69. Pediatric and neonatal resuscitation
- Questions
- Bibliography
- 14. Toxicologic Emergencies
- 70. General approach to poisonings
- Acknowledgment
- Questions
- Bibliography
- 71. The alcohols: Ethylene glycol, methanol, isopropyl alcohol, and alcohol-related complications
- Ethylene = glycol and methanol
- Isopropyl alcohol
- Other glycol ethers: Diethylene glycol
- Ethanol-related complications
- Questions
- Bibliography
- 72. Antipyretic poisoning
- Salicylate poisoning
- Acetaminophen poisoning
- Ibuprofen poisoning
- Questions
- Bibliography
- 73. Bites and stings
- Arachnida (chiggers, scabies, scorpions, and spiders)
- Formicidae (ants)
- Hymenoptera (bees and wasps)
- Heloderma (lizards)
- Culicidae (mosquitoes)
- Mammals (bats, dogs, cats, foxes, horses, humans, raccoons, skunks, and woodchucks)
- Marine fauna (sea jellies, sharks, and venomous fish)
- Crotalinae (rattlesnakes, copperheads, water moccasins) and elapidae (coral snakes)
- Questions
- Bibliography
- 74. Smoke inhalation
- Controversy
- Questions
- Bibliography
- 75. Common drugs of abuse
- Opioids
- Sedative-hypnotics
- Hallucinogens
- Stimulants
- Anticholinergic agents
- Questions
- Bibliography
- 76. Cardiovascular toxicology
- Acknowledgment
- Questions
- Bibliography
- 77. Pediatric ingestions
- Acknowledgment
- Questions
- Bibliography
- 15. Gynecology and Ostetrics
- 78. Pelvic inflammatory disease
- Acknowledgment
- Questions
- Bibliography
- 79. Sexual assault
- Acknowledgment
- Questions
- Bibiliography
- 80. Spontaneous abortion, ectopic pregnancy, and vaginal bleeding
- Acknowledgment
- Questions
- Bibliography
- 81. Third-trimester complications and delivery
- Questions
- Bibliography
- 16. Trauma
- 82. Multiple trauma
- Questions
- Bibliography
- 83. Maxillofacial trauma
- Questions
- Bibliography
- 84. Cervical spine and spinal cord trauma
- Controversy
- Questions
- Bibliography
- 85. Head trauma
- Questions
- Bibliography
- 86. Traumatic ophthalmologic emergencies
- Questions
- Bibliography
- 87. Neck trauma
- Questions
- Bibliography
- 88. Chest trauma
- Questions
- Bibliography
- 89. Abdominal trauma
- Questions
- Bibiliography
- 90. Pelvic fractures and genitourinary trauma
- Questions
- Bibliography
- 91. Trauma in pregnancy
- Questions
- Bibliography
- 92. Pediatric trauma
- Questions
- Bibliography
- 93. Musculoskeletal trauma, conditions of the extremity, and hand injuries
- Hand and forearm injuries
- Shoulder and upper arm injuries
- Lower extremity and pelvic fractures
- Pediatric orthopedics
- Questions
- Bibliography
- 94. Burns
- Questions
- Bibliography
- 95. Wound management
- Questions
- Bibliography
- 17. Behavioral Emergencies
- 96. Acute psychosis
- Acknowledgment
- Questions
- Bibliography
- 97. Depression, suicide, and posttraumatic stress disorder
- Questions
- Bibliography
- 98. Management of the violent patient
- Acknowledgment
- Questions
- Bibliography
- 99. Intimate partner violence
- Acknowledgment
- Questions
- Bibliography
- 18. EMS and Disaster Management
- 100. EMS medical oversight
- Questions
- Bibliography
- 101. Disaster management
- Questions
- Bibliography
- 102. Principles of response to weapons of mass destruction
- Questions
- Bibliography
- 103. Chemical weapons and terrorist agents
- Questions
- Bibliography
- 104. Biological weapons of mass destruction
- Questions
- Bibliography
- 105. Radiation emergencies
- Questions
- Bibliography
- 106. Explosive weapons of mass destruction
- Questions
- Reference
- Bibliography
- 107. Tactical medicine
- Questions
- Bibliography
- Index
- No. of pages: 752
- Language: English
- Edition: 7
- Published: May 20, 2021
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Paperback ISBN: 9780323694735
- eBook ISBN: 9780323694742
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Katherine M. Bakes
Affiliations and expertise
Medical Director, Denver Health Medical Center; Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine and Pediatrics, University of Colorado Denver School of Medicine, Aurora, ColoradoJB
Jennie A. Buchanan
Affiliations and expertise
Associate Professor, Denver Health and Hospital Authority, Clinical Faculty; Rocky Mountain Poison and Drug Center, Denver, Colorado, Associate Professor; University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, ColoradoMM
Maria E. Moreira
Affiliations and expertise
Denver Health Emergency Department, Denver, CORB
Richard Byyny
Affiliations and expertise
Denver Health, Emergency Department, Denver, COPP
Peter T. Pons
Affiliations and expertise
Attending Emergency Medical Physician, Denver Health Medical Center, Denver, Colorado, Professor Emeritus; University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, Colorado