Avoiding common errors in the emergency department

Mattu, Amal, (editor.). Chanmugam, Arjun S., (editor.). Swadron, Stuart P., (editor.). Woolridge, Dale, (editor.). Winters, Michael E., (editor.). Marcucci, Lisa, (editor.).

Summary: "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 evidence-based, suitable for reading immediately before the start of a rotation, used for quick reference on call, or read daily over the course of one year for personal assessment and review. Key Features: Coverage includes psychiatry, pediatrics, poisonings, cardiology, obstetrics and gynecology, trauma, general surgery, orthopedics, infectious diseases, gastroenterology, renal, anesthesia and airway management, urology, ENT, and oral and maxillofacial surgery. Completely revised and rewritten by many new authors, as well as returning authors who bring a fresh perspective to new subjects. New key points at the end of each chapter present must-know information in an easy-access, bulleted format. Ideal for emergency medicine physicians, residents, and attendings; emergency nurse practitioners, PAs who practice in the ED, and primary care physicians in urgent care centers. Your book purchase includes a complimentary download of the enhanced eBook for iOS, Android, PC & Mac. Take advantage of these practical features that will improve your eBook experience: the ability to download the eBook on multiple devices at one time -- providing a seamless reading experience online or offline. Powerful search tools and smart navigation cross-links allow you to search within this book, or across your entire library of VitalSource eBooks Multiple viewing options offer the ability to scale images and text to any size without losing page clarity as well as responsive design. The ability to highlight text and add notes with one click"--Provided by publisher.

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ISBN: 9781496320742
ISBN: 1496320743
Physical Description: print
liii, 862 pages ; 21 cm
Edition: Second edition.
Publisher: Philadelphia : Wolters Kluwer, [2017]

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Machine generated contents note: 1. Don't Lose That Airway! Imminent Airway Loss: Who Needs Endotracheal Intubation? -- 2. Preoxygenation / Nicholas Sauber / Dena Reiter -- 3. Airway Adjuncts: Know Your Backup Plans / Michael R. Ehmann -- 4. Know Your RSI Meds / Nicholas Sauber -- 5. Did You Maximize Your Laryngeal View? / Daniel Swedien -- 6. Don't Fear the Blade: Surgical Airway / Devin M. Keefe -- 7. Do Not Rely on Clinical Examination Alone for Confirmation of Endotracheal Tube Placement / Ernest Mavunga -- 8. Art of Bagging / Robert B. Takla / Ashwin Sabbani -- 9. BP Still Low? Postintubation Hypotension / Devin M. Keefe -- 10. Finding the Site: Site Selection and Minimizing Complications for Central Line Placement / Alison Traver -- 11. Managing Cardiac Arrest / Dilnaz Panjwani / Richard Paul -- 12. Medications in Cardiac Arrest: Time for a Requiem? / E. Timpano -- 13. What Are Your Vent Settings, Bud? / Bachar Hamade -- 14. After the Cardiac Arrest: Postarrest Care / Kelley Crane -- 15. Cooling, How Low Do You Go? Therapeutic Hypothermia in the Postarrest Patient / Chidubem Iloabachie -- 16. Activate the Cardiac Cath Team following Sudden Cardiac Arrest-Don't Be Afraid to Call / Bachar Hamade -- 17. Rush to Resuscitation / Matthew J. Levy -- 18. Do Not Delay the Administration of Epinephrine for Patients with Anaphylaxis / Daniel Sheets / Randall T. Rhyne -- 19. Putting on the Squeeze...Vasopressors / Nour Al Jalbout -- 20. How Much Is Enough? Transfusions in the Bleeding Patient: Don't Forget the Rest of the Blood / Zachary E. Smith -- 21. Fluid Therapy: Beware of (AB)Normal Saline-Choose Your Resuscitation Fluids Carefully / Emily Streyer Carlisle -- 22. ECMO / Nicole Alexander -- 23. Needle This: Do Not Assume That Needle Decompression of a Tension Pneumothorax Is Reliable and Effective / Casey Carr -- 24. Resuscitative Thoracotomy / Bahrenegash Getachem -- 25. Increased ICP in Resuscitation / Nathan Woltman / Michael R. Ehmann -- 26. Massive Pulmonary Thromboembolism and Thrombolytics / Nicole Heidenreich -- 27. Fluid in the Sac? Cardiac Tamponade / Nour Al Jalbout -- 28. Is It Wide or Is It Narrow? PEA: A Simplified Approach to Pulseless Electrical Activity / Ngozi Nroeze -- 29. Undifferentiated Shock / Nicholas Risko -- 30. Know How to Identify Abdominal Compartment Syndrome / Daniel Sheets / Randall T. Rhyne -- 31. Cardiogenic Shock / Debjeet Sarkar / Ruben Troncoso Jr -- 32. Know When to Administer Sodium Bicarbonate in the Critically Ill Poisoned Patient / Kevin K. Chung -- 33. Think Big Vessels: Vascular Catastrophes / Harry E. Heverling / Tiffany C. Fong -- 34. Stop the Bleeding! Novel Therapies: REBOA / Kevin K. Chung -- 35. Avoid the Tube! Noninvasive Ventilation Strategies / Casey Lee Wilson -- 36. Be Wary of Intubation in the Asthma Patient / Rodica Retezar -- 37. Stop Using Benzodiazepines to Sedate Your Critically Ill Intubated Patient / Daniel B. Savage -- 38. Monitor the Plateau Pressure in Intubated ED Patients / Krystle Shafer / Lillian L. Emlet -- 39. Forget CVP! Use Dynamic Markers of Volume Responsiveness to Guide Fluid Resuscitation in the Critically Ill Patient / Brian J. Wright -- 40. Consider Abdominal Compartment Syndrome in Patients with Refractory Hypotension / Michael Allison -- 41. Know the Thresholds for Red Blood Cell Transfusion in the Critically Ill / Cindy H. Hsu -- 42. Perform These Simple Interventions That Make a Big Difference in Preventing Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia / Michael C. Scott -- 43. Know How to Care for the ICU Boarder in Your ED / Nicholas Johnson -- 44. Know How to Evaluate and Manage the Intubated Patient with Refractory Hypoxemia / Joshua D. Farkas -- 45. Ready for Prime Time? Extracorporeal Life Support in the ED / Christopher P. Nickson / Thomas H. Rozen -- 46. Rapidly Reverse Life-Threatening Hemorrhage in the Patient Taking an Oral Anticoagulant Medication / Zachary Shinar -- 47. Be Ready to Discuss and Deliver End-of-Life Care in the Emergency Department / Rory Spiegel -- 48. Recognize Atypical Presentations of Acute Coronary Syndrome / Ashley Shreves -- 49. Type A Behavior: Consider Aortic Dissection in Patients with Chest Pain and Ischemic Electrocardiograms / Amita Sudhir -- 50. Contents Under Pressure: Aggressive Hemodynamic Management in Patients with Acute Aortic Dissection / Jeffrey D. Ferguson / Jessica Balderston -- 51. Do Not Confuse Multifocal Atrial Tachycardia with Atrial Fibrillation / Jessica Balderston / Jeffrey D. Ferguson -- 52. Do Not Confuse Mobitz Type I and Mobitz Type II Atrioventricular Block / Christopher Greene -- 53. Be Able to Recognize Electrocardiographic Artifact from Dysrhythmia / J. Jeremy Thomas / C. Blayke Gibson -- 54. Management of Atrial Fibrillation: Rate Control versus Rhythm Conversion / George Glass -- 55. Management of Atrial Fibrillation with Rapid Ventricular Response / J. Jeremy Thomas / Charles Khoury -- 56. Atrial Fibrillation in the Wolff-Parkinson-White Syndrome / J. Jeremy Thomas / Brian L. Bauerband -- 57. Never Mistake Ventricular Tachycardia for Supraventricular Tachycardia with Aberrant Conduction / Heather T. Streich / William J. Brady -- 58. Know the Mimics of Ventricular Tachycardia / Heather Grath -- 59. Do Not Exclude Cardiac Causes of Chest Pain because the Patient Does Not Have Traditional Risk Factors for Acute Coronary Syndrome / J. Jeremy Thomas / William C. Ferguson -- 60. Do Not Forget to Consider Nontraditional Risk Factors for Coronary Artery Disease in Patients with Chest Pain / J. Jeremy Thomas / Christopher N. White -- 61. Do Not Forget about the Non-ACS Causes of Chest Pain / Thomas Hartka -- 62. Be Cautious Diagnosing "Anxiety" or "Panic Disorder" in Patients with Chest Pain and Anxiety / J. Jeremy Thomas / Patrick Siler -- 63. One and Done: Rapid Rule-Out Protocols / Adam E. Nevel -- 64. Beware of the "Highly Sensitive" Troponin / Semhar Z. Tewelde / Maite Anna Huis in 't Veld -- 65. When Good VADs Go Bad / Semhar Z. Tewelde / Maite Anna Huis in 't Veld -- 66. Don't Stress the Stress Test in Suspected ACS / Christina Lynn Tupe -- 67. Remember to Obtain a Right-Sided Electrocardiogram in a Patient with an Inferior Myocardial Infarction / Christina Lynn Tupe -- 68. Pitfalls in Hypertensive Emergencies / Semhar Z. Tewelde / Carmen Avendano -- 69. Know the Differential for ST-Segment Elevation: It's More Than Just Acute Coronary Syndrome / Stephen D. Lee -- 70. Do Not Rely on a Single ECG to Evaluate Chest Pain in the ED / Semhar Z. Topelde / Kathleen Stephanos -- 71. Know How to Diagnose Acute MI in Patients with an LBBB or Pacemaker / Semhar Z. Tewelde / Kathleen Stephanos -- 72. Getting Ahead of Cardiogenic Pulmonary Edema: Aggressive Nitroglycerin Usage / Anthony Roggio -- 73. Beyond Diuresis: Treatment Adjuncts in Cardiogenic Pulmonary Edema / Semhar Z. Tewelde -- 74. Know How to Differentiate Cardiac versus Noncardiac Causes of Syncope / Nicholas Goodmanson -- 75. Pearls in Syncope ECG Interpretation / Omoyemi Adebayo -- 76. Syncope: Avoiding a Shotgun Wedding / Semhar Z. Tervelde / Carmen Avendano -- 77. When an Appy Doesn't Follow the Rules / Omoyemi Adebayo -- 78. Analgesia for the Patient with Acute Abdominal Pain: Don't Delay! / Caroline Brandon -- 79. Get to It Early: Sigmoid Volvulus / Adrian Flores -- 80. Cecal Volvulus: Don't Miss It! / Jorge Ontiveros -- 81. Altered Mental Status in a Child: Don't Forget about Intussusception! / Jan Marie Shoenberger -- 82. Don't Miss Aortoenteric Fistula: A Rare But Life-Threatening Cause of Gastrointestinal Bleeding! / Jeffrey Bullard-Berent / Aaron E. Kornblith -- 83. Acute Mesenteric Ischemia: A True Abdominal Catastrophe / Kristin Berona -- 84. Not All Epigastric Pain Is Benign / Talib Omer -- 85. Don't Underestimate an Acute Variceal Hemorrhage! / Alessandra Conforto -- 86. Don't Be Fooled by a Subtle Presentation-SBP Can Be Deadly! / Lee Plantmason -- 87. Ascending Cholangitis aka Biliary Sepsis aka "That Other Pus Under Pressure" / Alessandra Conforto -- 88. Acalculous Cholecystitis: No Stones, No Problems? / Prathap Sooriyakumaran -- 89. Anticipate Bleeding and Reverse Coagulopathies in Patients with Liver Failure / Lauren Longyear / Christopher Martin -- 90. Boerhaave Syndrome: Not All Life-Threatening Chest Pain Involves the Heart and Lungs / Barry Schlansky / Derek K. Richardson -- 91. Caustic Ingestions: Don't Make It Worse / Christopher J. Coyne -- 92. Ingested Foreign Bodies: When to Intervene? / Christopher R. Peabody / Erika Flores Uribe -- 93. Severe Acute Pancreatitis Can Be Sneaky / Brian Doane -- 94. Use Restraint When Imaging Patients with Acute Pancreatitis / Dennis Hsieh -- 95. "Pain" in Chronic Pancreatitis / Barry Schlansky / Derek K. Richardson -- 96. Abdominal Pain in Inflammatory Bowel Disease: A Flare or Emergent Complication? / Delphine J. Huang -- 97. Not Every Pregnant Patient with Vomiting Has Hyperemesis Gravidarum / Margaret Huang -- 98. Beware of the Patient with Painless / Rolando G. Valenzuela / William K. Mallon -- 99. ERCP Can Cause a Lot of Complications! / Rolando G. Valenzuela / Jaundice Andres Guzman -- 100. Don't Be Afraid to Order a CT on a Pregnant Patient If She Really Needs It / Abraham Flinders -- 101. Know How to Deal with the Displaced PEG Tube / Marita M. Harris-Naddell / Michelle D. Lall -- 102. Common Pitfalls in Point of Care Ultrasound of the Gallbladder! / Rolando G. Valenzuela / Julie Y. Valenzuela -- 103. Don't Miss Necrotizing Fasciitis! / Kristin Berona --