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Avoiding common errors in the emergency department /
"In a conversational, easy-to-read style, Avoiding Common Errors in the Emergency Department, 2nd Edition, discusses 365 errors commonly made in the practice of emergency medicine and gives practical, easy-to-remember tips for avoiding these pitfalls. Chapters are brief, approachable, and evide...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Philadelphia :
Wolters Kluwer/Lippincott Williams & Wilkins,
2017.
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| Edición: | Second edition. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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- $$a Section I: Crashing patient
- Don't lose that airway! Imminent airway loss: Who needs endotracheal intubation? / Nicholas Sauber, Dena Reiter
- Preoxygenation / Michael R. Ehmann
- Airway adjuncts: Know your backup plans / Nicholas Sauber
- Know your RSI meds / Daniel Swedien
- Did you maximize your laryngeal view? / Devin M. Keefe
- Don't fear the blade: Surgical airway / Ernest Mavunga
- Do not rely on clinical examination alone for confirmation of endotracheal tube placement / Robert B. Takla, Ashwin Sabbani
- The art of bagging / Devin M. Keefe
- BP still low? Postintubation hypotension / Alison Traver
- Finding the site: Site selection and minimizing complications for central line placement / Dilnaz Panjwani, Richard Paul
- Managing cardiac arrest / E. Timpano
- Medications in cardiac arrest: Time for a requiem? / Bachar Hamade
- What are your vent settings, Bud? / Kelley Crane
- After the cardiac arrest : Postarrest care / Chidubem Iloabachie
- Cooling, how low do you go? Therapeutic hypothermia in the postarrest patient / Bachar Hamade
- Activate the cardiac Cath team following sudden cardiac arrest--don't be afraid to call / Matthew J. Levy
- Rush to resuscitation / Daniel Sheets, Randall T. Rhyne
- Do not delay the administration of epinephrine for patients with anaphylaxis / Nour Al Jalbout
- Putting on the squeeze ... vasopressors / Zachary E. Smith
- How much is enough? Transfusions in the bleeding patient: Don't forget the rest of the blood / Emily Streyer Carlisle
- Fluid therapy: Beware of (AB)normal saline
- -saline choose your resuscitation fluids carefully / Nicole Alexander
- ECMO / Casey Carr
- Needle this: Do not assume that needle decompression of a tension pneumothorax is reliable and effective / Bahrenegash Getachew
- Resuscitative thoracotomy / Michael R. Ehmann, Nathan Woltman
- Increased ICP in resuscitation / Nicole Heidenreich
- Massive pulmonary thromboembolism and thrombolytics / Nour Al Jalbout
- Fluid in the sac? Cardiac tamponade / Ngozi Nweze
- Is it wide or is it narrow? PEA: A simplified approach to pulseless electrical activity / Nicholas Risko
- Undifferentiated shock / Daniel Sheets, Randall T. Rhyne
- Know how to identify abdominal compartment syndrome / Ruben Troncoso Jr., Debjeet Sarkar
- Cardiogenic shock / Kevin K. Chung
- Know when to administer sodium bicarbonate in the critically ill poisoned patient / Harry E. Heverling, Tiffany C. Fong
- Think big vessels: Vascular catastrophes / Kevin K. Chung
- Stop the bleeding! Novel therapies: REBOA / Casey Lee Wilson
- Avoid the tube! Noninvasive ventilation strategies / Rodica Retezar
- Be wary of intubation in the asthma patient / Daniel B. Savage
- Section II: Critical care
- Stop using benzodiazepines to sedate your critically ill intubated patient / Krystle Shafer, Lillian L. Emlet
- Monitor the plateau pressure in intubated ED patients / Brian J. Wright
- Forget CVP! Use dynamic markers of volume responsiveness to guide fluid resuscitation in the critically ill patient / Michael Allison
- Consider abdominal compartment syndrome in patients with refractory hypotension / Cindy H. Hsu
- Know the thresholds for red blood cell transfusion in the critically ill / Michael C. Scott
- Perform these simple interventions that make a big difference in preventing ventilator-associated pneumonia / Nicholas Johnson
- Know how to care for the ICU boarder in your ED / Joshua D. Farkas
- Know how to evaluate and manage the intubated patient with refractory hypoxemia / Thomas H. Rozen, Christopher P. Nickson
- Ready for prime time? Extracorporeal life support in the ED / Zachary Shinar
- Rapidly reverse life-threatening hemorrhage in the patient taking on oral anticoagulant medications / Rory Spiegel
- Be ready to discuss and deliver end-of-life care in the emergency department / Ashley Shreves
- Section III: Cardiology
- Recognize atypical presentations of acute coronary syndrome / Amita Sudhir
- Type A behavior: Consider aortic dissection in patients with chest pain and ischemic electrocardiograms / Jessica Balderston, Jeffrey D. Ferguson
- Contents under pressure: Aggressive hemodynamic management in patients with acute aortic dissection / Jeffrey D. Ferguson, Jessica Balderston
- Do not confuse multifocal atrial tachycardia with atrial fibrillation / Christopher Greene
- Do not confuse Mobitz Type I and Mobitz Type II atrioventricular block / C. Blayke Gibson, J. Jeremy Thomas
- Be able to recognize electrocardiographic artifact from dysrhythmia / George Glass
- Management of atrial fibrillation: Rate control versus rhythm conversion / Charles Khoury, J. Jeremy Thomas
- Management of atrial fibrillation with rapid ventricular response / Brian L. Bauerband, J. Jeremy Thomas
- Atrial fibrillation in the Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome / William J. Brady, Heather T. Streich
- Never mistake ventricular tachycardia for supraventricular tachycardia with aberrant conduction / Heather Groth
- Know the mimics of ventricular tachycardia / William C. Ferguson, J. Jeremy Thomas
- Do not exclude cardiac causes of chest pain because the patient does not have traditional risk factors for acute coronary syndrome / Christopher N. White, J. Jeremy Thomas
- Do not forget to consider nontraditional risk factors for coronary artery disease in patients with chest pain / Thomas Hartka
- Do not forget about the non-ACS causes of chest pain / Patrick Siler, J. Jeremy Thomas
- Be cautious diagnosing "anxiety" or "panic disorder" in patients with chest pain and anxiety / Adam E. Nevel
- One and done: Rapid rule-out protocols / Maite Anna Huis in 't Veld, Semhar Z. Tewelde
- Beware of the "highly sensitive" troponin / Maite Anna Huis in 't Veld, Semhar
- When good VADs go bad / Christina Lynn Tupe
- Don't stress the stress test in suspected ACS / Christina Lynn Tupe
- Remember to obtain a right-sided electrocardiogram in a patient with an inferior myocardial infarction / Carmen Avendano, Semhar Z. Tewelde
- Pitfalls in hypertensive emergencies / Stephen D. Lee
- Know the differential for ST-segment elevation: It's more than just acute coronary syndrome / Kathleen Stephanos, Semhar Z. Tewelde
- Know how to diagnose acute MI in patients with an LBBB or pacemaker / Anthony Roggio
- Getting ahead of cardiogenic pulmonary edema: Aggressive nitroglycerin usage / Semhar Z. Tewelde
- Beyond diuresis: Treatment adjunctions in cardiogenic pulmonary edema / Nicholas Goodmanson
- Know how to differentiate cardiac versus noncardiac causes of syncope / Omoyemi Abebayo
- Pearls in syncope ECG interpretation / Omoyemi Adebayo
- Pearls in syncope ECG interpretation / Carmen Avendano, Semhar Z. Tewelde
- Section IV: Gastroenterology
- When an apply doesn't follow the rules / Caroline Brandon
- Analgesia for the patient with acute abdominal pain: Don't delay! / Adrian Flores
- Get to it early: Sigmoid volvulus / Jorge Ontiveros
- Cecal volvulus: Don't miss it! / Jan Marie Shoenberger
- Altered mental status in a child: Don't forget about intussusception! / Aaron K. Kornblith, Jeffrey Bullard-Berent
- Don't miss aortoenteric fistula: A rare but life-threatening case of gastrointestinal bleeding! / Kristin Berona
- Acute mesenteric ischemia: A true abdominal catastophe / Talib Omer
- Not all epigastric pain is benign / Alessandra Conforto
- Don't underestimate an acute variceal hemorrhage! / Lee Plantmason
- Don't be fooled by a subtle presentation---SBP can be deadly! / Alessandro Conforto
- Ascending cholangitis aka Biliary Sepsis aka "That other pus under pressure" / Prathap Sooriyakumaran
- Acalculous cholecystitis: No stones, no problems? / Christopher Martin, Lauren Longyear
- Anticipate bleeding and reverse coagulopathies in patients with live failure / Derek K. Richardson, Barry Schlansky
- Boerhave Syndrome: No all life-threatening chest pain involves the heart and lungs / Christopher J. Coyne
- Caustic indigestions: Don't make it worse / Erika Flores Uribe, Christopher R. Peabody.
- $$a Ingested foreign bodies: When to intervene? / Brian Doane
- Severe acute pancreatitis can be sneaky / Dennis Hsieh
- Use restraint when imagining patients with acute pancreatitis / Derek K. Richardson, Barry Schlansky
- The "pain" in chronic pancreatitis / Delphine J. Huang
- Abdominal pain in inflammatory bowel disease: A flare or emergent complication? / Margaret Huang
- Not every pregnant patients with vomiting has hyperemesis gravidarum / Rolando G. Valenzuela, William K. Mallon
- Beward of the patients with painless jaundice / Andrés Guzmán, Rolando G. Valenzuela
- ERCP can cause a lot of complications! / Abraham Flinders
- Don't be afraid to order a CT on a pregnant patient if she really needs it / Marita M. Harris-Naddell, Michelle D. Lall
- How how to deal with displaced PEG tube / Julie V. Valenzuela, Rolando G. Valenzuela
- Common pitfalls in point of care ultrasound of the gallbladder! / Kristin Berona
- Section V: Cutaneous
- Don't miss necrotizing fasciitis! / Shaughn Keating
- SJS and TEN: Are they different? / Arun Nair
- The spectrum of TEN / Alexander Jenson
- Mimics in cellulitis / Shabana Walia
- Chickenpox and shingles: More than just a rash / Aaryn K. Hammond
- Do not rely on orthostatic vital signs to diagnose volume depletion / Anand K. Swaminathan, Gordon Wu
- HHS: When high sugars have got you down! / Stephanie Lareau
- Do not over treat hypo- or hypernatremia / Nicole Cimino-Fiallos, Wan-Tsu Wendy Chang
- A 3-pronged approach to the treatment of hyperkalemia / Erica B. Shaver, Christopher S. Keifer
- Know hot to recognize and treat thyroid storm / Henderson D. McGinnis
- Understand the role of magnesium in the treatment of hypolakemia / Erica B. Shaver, Christopher S. Keifer
- How to recognize and treat thyroid storm / Henderson D. McGinnis
- Understand the role of magnesium in the treatment of hypokalemia / Farhad Aziz, Justin Boone Rose
- How to interpret the venous blood gas / Joshua (Josh) Nichols, Corey Heitz
- Know the indications for bicarbonate therapy / Kimberly Boswell
- Section VII: Environment
- Not so fast! Rewarming the cold patient / Kubwimana Moses Mhayamaguru, Christopher G. Williams
- Acclimatize or die of descend / Clinton G. Keilman
- Aggressive cooling is (almost) always the correct approach to the critical, environmentally hyperthermic patient / Christopher G. Williams
- Smoke inhalation: Commonly overtreated and undertreated aspects / Dennis Allin
- CO poisoning: It takes more than O2 / Bryan Wilson, Christopher G. Williams
- A rash that is more than "just a rash" / Nash Whitaker
- Diving inhuries: Don't miss these serious injuries because you failed to get the history! / Michael Iacono, Tracy Leigh LeGros
- Section VIII: HEENT
- Giant cell arteries / Who the heck is Horton and why should I worry about his headache? / Aisha Parker, James Aiken
- Sight-threatening ZOSTER ophthalmicus: How to recognize and treat / Suh H. Lee, John Villani
- And the eyes have it / Summer Stears-Ellis
- "Your patient has a retrobulbar hematoma. I think he's going to need a canthotomy." / Jonathan Dangers
- Beware the sore throat that kills / Diane Rimple
- Consider a deep space neck infection in a child with a fever and neck pain or torticollis / Joanna Schwartz
- Lemierre Syndrome: Lemierre syndrome: A royal pain in the neck / Frank J. Edwards
- Peritonsillar abscess / Ben Leeson, Kimberly Leeson
- Peritonsillar abscess / Ben Leeson, Kimberly Leeson
- Don't misdiagnose, overtreat, or cause perforation of the tympanic membrane / John Herrick
- If it ain't cancer, why do I call this malignant otitis externa? / Allison D. Lane
- Approach to the red eye / Lindsey Retterath, Hans Bradshaw
- Eyeing the causes of acute vision loss / Benjamin Karfunkle, Anna McFarlin
- Face-eating fungus: Rhinocerebral mucormycosis / Eric C. Funk, Casey M. Clements
- Digging for gold: Some nuggets about epistaxis / Josh Mugele
- Ludwig Angina---"The German Stranglehold" / Dustin Leigh
- Dental exams are not just for dentists; Remember to identify and treat oral infections / Ashley Sievers
- The infection behind the infection: Distinguishing periorbital from orbital cellulitis / Samuel J. Tate, John S. Rose
- Section IX: HEME ONC
- When kidneys explode; Everything is wrong with tumor lysis syndrome / Daniel Cabrera
- Immune thrombocytopenia: Oh the platelets, you'll go / Nicole Muhlbauer, Neha Bhasin
- Thrombotic thrombocytopenic Purpura and hemolytic uremic syndrome: Bloody zebras with a bad bite / Stephen A. Manganaro
- High temps and low counts: Treat febrile neutropenic patients with early and appropriate antibiotics / Matthew W. Connelly, Steven Roumpf
- My chest! My back! My sickle cell attack! / Cullen Clark, Anna McMarlin
- Warfarin reversal: Factor it in / William B. Stubblefield, Daren M. Beam
- Emergent anticoagulant reversal: Be appropriately aggressive / Keith Azevedo, Isaac Tawil
- Recognize leukostasis and know when to consult for emergent treatment / Cameron Hypes
- Section X: Immune
- Don't get stung by anaphylaxis / Vincent Devlin, Jerussa Aita-Levy
- Angioedema and anaphylaxis are not the same, they just happen to present similarly / Lui Caleon, Pierre Detiege
- Treacherous transplant toxicities / Christopher J. Edwards, Tsz Yee (Janice) Tsui
- Think outside the "graft box" when evaluating the transplant patient / Timothy S. Davie
- Do's and don'ts for managing heart transplant patients in the ED / Lawrence DeLuca Jr.,
- Anaphylaxis and epinephrine--Can you have one without the other? / Ronna L. Campbell
- Section XI: Infectious disease
- Avoid relying on the presence of SIRS to diagnose sepsis / Kami M. Hu, Joseph P. Martinez
- Prevent catheter-associated urinary tract infections (CAUTIs) in the emergency room / Stephen Y. Liang
- Know the embolic complications of infective endocarditis / Brian Edwards
- The don't miss diagnosis: Acute retroviral syndrome / Adeolu Ogunbodede, Joseph P. Martinez
- Understand when and how to initiate HIV postexposure prophylaxis in the emergency department / Stephen Y. Liang, Ed Casabar
- Recognize the presentation of bioterrorism agents / Stephen P. Shaheen, Jon Mark Hirshon
- Staphylococcal toxic shock syndrome: Do not hesitate--resuscitate / Sarah B. Dubbs
- Do not be misled by the traditional myths of diarrhea / Michael Nitzberg, Kevin Reed
- Meningitis doesn't have to be a pain in the neck! / Nick Tsipis, Liesl. A. Curtis
- Know emerging infections / Travis Thompson, Lindsey White
- TB and syphilis: Infections you can't forget about / Kayla Dewey, Ghofrane Benghanem
- Avoiding common pitfalls in influenza treatment / Eric Stephen Kiechle, Maryann Mazer-Amirshahi
- Appropriate antibiotic choices for resistant organisms / Jessica E. Shackman, Kathryn M. Kellogg
- Know infection prevention / Lindsey DeGeorge, Lauren Wiesner
- Treating pneumonia in COPD / Diana Ladkany, Jeffrey Dubin
- Diagnose and treat necrotizing soft tissue infections quickly! / Tabitha Gargano, Korin Hudson
- What is the best way to measure core temperature? / Matthew Morrison
- Section XII: MS Nontrauma
- Ugh! Another repeat visit for back pain?! Keep epidural abscesses on the differential! / Courtney K. Soley, Heather Miller Fleming
- Section XII: MS Nontrauma
- Ugh! Another rapid repeat visit?! / Courtney L. Solely, Heather Miller Flemming
- Under pressure : Rapidly diagnosing and treating and treating acute compartment syndrome of the extremities / Anna L. Waterbrook
- Physical exam and bloodwork do not adequately differentiate infections from inflammatory arthritis / Derick D. Jones, Casey M. Clements
- Don't get broken up about muscle breakdown / H. Shae Sauncy
- When back pain is an emergency / James Bohan
- Rheumatoid arthritis and spondyloarthropathies / J. Stephan Stapeczynski.
- $$a Section XIII: Neuro
- An update on ideiopathic intracranial hypertension / Evelyn Lee, Ramin Tabatabai
- Normal diagnosis studies do not rule out shunt malfunction / Amy Buckowski
- Don't be fooled into erroneously diagnosing peripheral vertigo / Daniel Mindlin
- Diagnosing cervical artery dissection in the ED: A real pain in the neck! / Erik R. Hofmann, Ramin Tabatabai
- Posterior circulation ischemic stroke: If you don't think about it, you'll miss it / Craig Torres-Ness
- Understand the utility and limitations of diagnostic imaging in nontraumatic subarachnoid hemorrhage / Manuel R. Montano
- Don't forgot atypical causes of status epilepiticus! / R. James Salway
- Leave it alone: Blood pressure measurement in ischemic stroke / Amir A. Rouhani
- Cerebral venous sinus thrombosis: A rare diagnosis with a common chief complaint / Margarita Santiago-Martinez, Stuart Swadron
- Great imitators of acute stroke / Aarti Fain
- Blood pressure in the patient with intracranial hemorrhage--Bring it down! / Daniel R. Ruiz, Edward Stettner
- How to disposition the patient with suspected TIA / Allen Chiou, Mindi Guptill
- The elusive brain abscess / Shikha Kapil, Jeffrey N. Siegelman
- Bulbar symptoms in the ED: Watch the airway / Ariel Bowman
- Multiple sclerosis in the ED: Rule out other diagnoses first / Christopher Bodle, Melissa White
- Section XIV: OB/GYN
- Early pregnancy: Sifting out the potential catastrophes from the worried well / Jared T. Marx
- Pitfalls in the pursuit of ovarian torsion / Matthew C. DeLaney
- Anti-D in the ED / Brent Lorenzen
- Seizing young woman? Think eclampsia. Thinking eclampsia? Think again. / Kenneth D. Marshall
- Vaginal bleeding in late pregnancy / Heather A. Heaton
- Predict the unpredictable: Preterm labor / Priya Kuppusamy
- A bump on the bump: Minor abdominal trauma in pregnancy / Elias J. Jaffa, Sreeja Natesan
- Stable is the new abnormal: Beware the normal vital signs in pregnancy / Priya Kuppusamy
- Don't fear the cord! / Erika Hoenke McMahon, Kristina Colbenson
- Timas a wastin': Perimortem Cesarean section/ Vivienne Ng
- Clotted lungs: Not all shortness of breath in pregnancy is from Lamaze class / Jeremy Lux
- Postpartum complications / Heather A. Heaton
- There is no single test to rule out PID: Just treat it! / Theresa Q. Tran, Casey M. Clements
- Don't dismiss the young, female patient with shortness of breathe without considering peripartum cardiomyopathy / Kathi Glauner
- Section XV: Psych
- Delirium / Casey Carr
- Restraint with restraints: Patient restraint / Grant Nelson, Robert B. Dunne
- Mental status concern? Consider psychosis / Sarika Walia, Shabana Walia
- Ask about suicide risk / Trent R. Malcolm, Donald W. Alves
- Strange behavior? Personality disorders in the ED / Kerri N. Booker
- Don't ignore affective disorders! / Trent R. Malcolm
- Drug-seeking behavior in the emergency department / Michael Wolfe Pierce
- Anxiety in the emergency department / Sachin Moonat
- Address it in the ED, substance abuse in the emergency department / Sachin Moonat
- Section XVI: Genitourinary
- Don't let dialysis disequilibrium syndrome catch you off-balance / Carmen Wolfe
- Fournier Gangrene: A lethal infection you can't sit on! / Shoma Desai
- Testicular torsion trickery / Solomon Behar
- Hemodialysis: Who needs it now? / Michael Levine
- To thrill or not to thrill: When dialysis access sites go wrong / Caroline Brandon
- Wrap your head around this: Avoiding the pitfalls of phimosis and paraphimosis management / Kelly A. Painter
- Pyelonephritis: When it's complicated urine trouble / Molly Hartrich, Sophie Terp
- What goes up must come down / Jessica Lange Osterman
- Streamlining urethritis: Don't let an STD escape your ED / Clare Roepke
- I don't think my urine is supposed to look like this! / Landon A. Jones
- Section XVII: Thoracic
- Do not forget to administer steroids in patients with acute asthma exacerbations / Michele Callahan
- Do not withhold oxygen in a hypoxic patient with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease / Brian J. Lin, Anand K. Swaminathan
- Know acute illnesses that lead to rapid deterioration in the patient with pulmonary hypertension / Dhaval Thakkar, James Mathew Dargin
- Know the critical issues in resuscitation of the decompensated patient with pulmonary hypertension / Jacob C. Jentzer, James Mathew
- Know the evaluation and management of the patient with sarcoidosis / Harman S. Gill
- Properly risk stratify the patient with suspected pulmonary embolism / Kelly Williamson
- Know how to diagnose and treat pulmonary embolism / Ryan Dick-Perez, Nicholas M. Mohr
- Know which patients with submassive pulmonary embolism may benefit from thrombolytic therapy / Sangeeth Dubbireddi, Lillian L. Emlet
- Know which patients with submassive pulmonary embolism may benefit from thrombolytic therapy / Sangeeth Dubbireddi, Lilliam L. Emlet
- Understand proper ventilator management in patients with acute asthma exacerbations / Salim Rezaie, Anand K. Swaminathan
- Know the causes, evaluation, and management of hemoptysis / Matthew P. Borloz
- Use high-flow nasal cannula in patients with mild to moderate respiratory distress from hypoxemia / Ross McCormack, Jonathan Elmer
- Section XVIII: Tox
- Alcohol intoxication and withdrawal / Candice Jordan
- Acetaminophen toxicity: Getting reacquanted with Matthew and Rumack / David Rose
- Mixed disturbance: Think salicylate poisoning / Harry E. Heverling, Tiffany C. Fong
- Toxic alcohols / Candice Jordan
- The five stages iron toxicity: Beware of the latent period / Christina Clark
- Don't miss anticholinergic syndromes! / Theodore Fagrelius
- Cholinergic poisoning / Theodore Fagrelius
- An old favorite heart medication: Digoxin / Daniel B. Savage
- Did you consider intravenous lipid emulsion therapy? / Aaryn K. Hammond, Donald W. Alves
- Managing the hot and bothered: Sympathomimetic overdoses / Arun Nair
- Engaging drugs of abuse / Chelsea Williamson
- Cyanide poisoning: A tale of two antidotes / Scott E. Sutherland
- Methemoglobinemia: Blue pearls / Dilnaz Panjwani, Mitchell Louis Judge Li
- Should I take that? Nutritional supplements / Edmund Timpano, Sarika Walia
- Section XIX: Trauma/Ortho
- Electrical injuries: Shocking or subtle? / Tim Horeczko
- "Don't tase me bro!" The TASERed patient in the ED / Peter Milano
- Managing penetrating neck injuries: Hard or soft, superficial or deep? / Melissa Joseph
- To crack or not to crack: Indications for an ED thoracotomy / Sanjay Blatt
- Save a limb! Vascular injury in penetrating extremity trauma / Taylor McCormick
- Judicious abdominal imaging in trauma / Erick A. Eiting
- Severe traumatic brain injury: Avoid making it worse! / Ashkon Ansari
- Fluid resuscitation in trauma: Five pitfalls / Erick A. Eiting
- How do you fill a tank with holes in it? Optimal vascular access in trauma resuscitation / Benjamin D. Musser
- Don't be afraid to place a chest tube / Dhara P. Amin
- Massive transfusion in trauma: A changing landscape / Tarlan Hedayati
- Reversal of warfarin in trauma / Joseph S. Palter
- Reversal of novel anticoagulants and antiplatelet agents / Dhara P. Amin
- When to suspect cervical vascular injury / Tarlan Hedayati, Stuart Swadron
- Alternatives to packed red blood cells: The latest / Tarla Hedayati
- Tough break: Assessing and treating rib fractures / Michael Gottlieb
- Not so FAST: Perils and pitfalls with the FAST exam / Michael Gottlieb
- Closing the book: Using a bedsheet to stabilize pelvic fractures / Michael Gottlieb, Stuard Swadron
- Is spinal immobilization still necessary? / Joseph Palter
- Are vital signs reliable at assessing degree of hemorrhage? / Michael K. Safa
- The ABCs of major burns / Mary L. Cheffers, Stuart Swadron
- When can interventional radiology (IR) be your friend in trauma? / Lee Plantmason, Eric Wei
- Don't miss the gamekeeper thumb? / Brian R. Sharp
- Admit displaced supracondylar fractures for neurovascular checks / Allison S. Luu, Eric Wei.
- $$a Know the radiographic signs of scapholunate dislocation / Nicholas Abraham, Stuart Swadron
- Know the difference between Jones and Pseudo-Jones fractures / Brian R. Sharp
- Search for other injuries in patients with scapular fracture / John W. Martel
- Do you know how to do ABIs? / John C. Ray
- Don't miss the proximal fibula fracture in patients with ankle fracture / Shawn K. Kaku, Stuart Swadron
- Boxer's fracture? Check for rotational deformity! / Jennifer Marvil
- Think of Achilles tendon rupture in patients with sprained ankle / Jennifer Farah
- Reduce hip dislocations in a timely manner / Erik A. Berg
- Check for snuffbox tenderness and don't miss a scaphoid fracture / Benjamin D. Musser
- Calcaneal fracture? Don't miss a spinal injury! / Sara Khaghani
- Beward of benign-appearing high-pressure injection injuries / Jennifer Farah
- Lisfranc injury: Danger in the midfoot / Lee Plantmason
- The dorsal chip: Is it a trequetral fracture? / Caroline Brandon
- Lunate and perilunate dislocations: Pick these up on initial presentation! / Todd Schneberk
- Red flags for intimate partner violence and human trafficking / Kristi Stanley
- Section XX: Procedures/Skills/Anesth
- Sedation pearls and pitfalls: Procedural sedation in the emergency department / Chidubem Ilobachie, Dena Reiter
- Capnography in the ED: Qualitative or quantitative monitoring? For CPR and a whole lot more / Arun Nair
- To transfuse or not to transfuse / Debra Ravert
- Transfusion confusion: Types and management of transfusion reactions / Scott E. Sutherland
- Arthrocentesis tips / Christine Mlynarek, Ashley Sullivan
- Lumbar puncture and the Champagne tap / Chelsea Williamson
- Tapping the belly: Paracentesis in the emergency department / Thaer Ahmad, Leonard Bunting
- Careful with that tap: Accessing the VP shunt / Derrick Ashong
- No IV, consider the IO / Daniel B. Savage
- What nerve! Ultrasound-guided regional nerve blocks / Casey Lee Wilson
- A needling issue: Decompressing tension pneumothorax / Arun Nair
- Which line is it? Central line placement / Dilmaz Panjwani, Richard Paul
- Size matters: Spontaneous pneumothorax: Chest tube versus pigtail / Derrick Ashong
- Section XXI
- Recognize child abuse early / Clifford C. Ellingson
- Tips for managing all that is pediatric resuscitation / Jason Saunders, Heather Saavedra
- Keep the baby warm! And other steps in neonatal resuscitation / Ashley Grigsby, Jessica Kanis
- The pediatric airway: Learn it, live it, control it! / Garrett S. Pacheco
- All that barks is not croup / Sheryl Yanger
- Don't get in hot water by not knowing how to treat pediatric burns / Megan Litzau, Sheryl E. Allen
- My baby won't stop crying! / J. Adam Hawkins, Timothy Ruttan
- Pediatric procedural sedation in the ED: Easier than you may think / Jordan Alexander Justice
- The ins and outs of intussusception / Geoffrey P. Hays, Debra S. Rusk
- Do not rely on urinalysis to exclude urinary tract infections in children younger than two years / Arturo S. Gastañaduy
- A bundle of joy! The sick neonate / Robert Vezzetti
- Beware pediatric appendicitis / Julia Schweizer
- Diagnoses not to miss in the acutely limping child / Guyon J. Hill
- Don't diagnose sepsis in an alkalotic infant / Lisa D. Mills, Julianne Awrey
- BRUE: The diagnosis formerly known as ALTE / Julia N. Magana, Taylor Stayton
- "Kid ECGs are not just little adult ECGs" / Krista Young
- Not all pediatric head injuries require a head CT / Heather Miller Fleming, Kara Kowalczyk
- Easy does it: Be cautious with the cyanotic postoperative pediatric cardiac patient / Timothy Ruttan
- Not too sweet: Getting it just right in initial pediatric DKA management / Dariush Garber, Nathan Kupperman
- Pediatric concussion: A levelheaded approach / Kendra Grether-Jones, Erin Osiecki
- Section XXII: Geriatrics
- Do not underestimate the potential morbidity of abdominal pain in older adults / Christina L. Shenvi
- Think about ACS in older adults--Even without chest pain / Christina L. Shenvi
- ACS the geriatric patient: Atypical is typical treatment differences in ACS in the geriatric patient / Terrence Mulligan
- Follow your elders' footsteps, they may be ataxic / Jennifer L. Plitt, Michelle Rhodes
- Hip and vertebral compression fractures / Sang Keun, "Sam" Yi, Paul Blackburn
- Be sure to build a safety net around the weak geriatric patient you send home / Eric M. LeFebvre
- Grandma is loopy: Special considerations for altered mental status in the older adult / Christine R. Stehman
- The geriatric trauma patient is sicker than you realize / Rebecca Milligan, Michelle Rhodes
- A normal physical exam does not exclude infections in the geriatric patient / Danya Khoujah
- Respecting they elders: Defining, detecting, and reporting elder abuse / Patricia Bayless
- How to avoid snowing seniors: Pain medications and procedural sedation in older adults / Lisa C. Goldberg, Michelle Rhodes
- The consequences of grandpa's loaded medicine cabinet / Ryan Gallagher, Stephen Thornton
- Communicating and understanding the elder patient / Collyn T. Murray, Kevin Biese
- Section XXIII: Wound care
- Deep sutures: When, why, and why not? / Hollynn Larrabee, R. Alissa Mussell
- Pitfalls in emergency department abscess incision and drainage / David Wein, Jesse Dubey
- Keep it clean: Pitfalls in traumatic wound irrigation / Anand K. Swaminathan, Elicia Skelton
- Plantar puncture wound pearls and pitfalls / R. Gentry Wilkerson
- Do not believe the adage that epinephrine cannot be used for digital blocks / Feras Khan
- When are prophylactic antibiotics indicated for wounds? / Dale Cotton
- Do not miss a foreign body in a wound / Jason W. Wilson, Constantino Diaz
- Know how to treat mammalian bites / Christopher I. Doty
- Is that skin lesion an infection or an envenomation? / Spencer Greene, Veronica Tucci
- Know how to treat snake bites / Frederick C. Blum, Shabnam Nourparvar
- Eyelid lacerations: When to repair and when to refer / Erin Setzer
- Ear injuries and lacerations / Anas Sawas, Eric J. Morley
- Know which wounds to close ... and which ones to leave open / Raymond Beyda, Mark Silverberg
- Section XXIV: Clinical practice and legal issues
- Consult communications: Optimal communications with consultants / Hugh F. Hill
- Treating the patient and not the disease: Tips for patient satisfaction / Dylan Sean Kellogg
- Your patient has died, now focus on the family: How to deliver bad news to family members / Dylan Sean Kellogg
- Don't be afraid to discuss end-of-life decisions with the patient and family / Emily Streyer Carlisle
- Too many at one time? Emergency department overcrowding / Ryan Brooks, Arjun Chanmugam
- Discharge documentation: Keep it clear, concise, yet complete / David Rose
- Resident and advanced practice provider supervision / Patricia Petrella Nouhan
- What to do with so many? Strategies for reducing emergency department overcrowding / Ryan Brooks, Arjun Chanmugam
- What to do when the registered letter arrives / Kevin M. Klauer
- Your deposition / Kevin M. Klauer
- Surviving a lawsuit / Hugh F. Hill III.