Essential Emergency Procedures

Emergency Procedures

Medicine for the Outdoors: The Essential Guide to Emergency Medical Procedures and First Aid

Do you ever feel frustrated when you realize that even after four years in medical school, your mother still knows more about medicine than you do? In this book you will find everything you ever thought you would learn in medical school-but didn't. I'm sure I'm not alone in feeling that we learn very little that's practical during our four years of medical education. Paul Auerbach comes to the ...

Child protection procedures in emergency departments.

BACKGROUND Emergency departments (EDs) may be the first point at which children who have been subject to abuse or neglect come into contact with professionals who are able to act for their protection. In order to ascertain current procedures for identifying and managing child abuse, we conducted a survey of EDs in England and Northern Ireland. METHODS Questionnaires were sent to the lead prof...

Critical procedures in pediatric emergency medicine.

Children comprise approximately one-quarter of all visits to most emergency departments. Children are generally healthier than adults, yet there are similar priorities in assessment and management of pediatric patients. The initial approach to airway, breathing, and circulation still applies and is first and foremost in the evaluation of young infants and children. There are certain anatomic, p...

Ophthalmologic procedures in the emergency department.

Ophthalmologic emergencies account for up to 3% of visits to emergency departments in the United States. Although isolated ocular complaints are rarely life-threatening, they can lead to significant short- and long-term morbidity, including permanent visual loss. The role of the emergency physician in management of ocular emergencies is similar to that for other chief complaints: to recognize a...