Extraordinary Cases in Emergency Medicine

Description

More than three hundred extraordinary emergency medicine cases familiarize you with a wide variety of infrequently seen patient presentations

Over the course of his thirty-five year career practicing academic emergency medicine in an urban teaching institution providing Level 1 trauma care, author Douglas Brunette, MD has amassed an amazing collection of emergency medicine cases along with accompanying photographs. Most of these cases pose infrequently seen, if not rare, clinical challenges. Some are truly “once in a lifetime” in the career of an emergency medicine physician. All provide a unique learning opportunity.

Each of the 344 cases begins with an image (or set of images) and then continues with concise, templated details, including:

• Patient Presentation
• Clinical Features
• Differential Diagnosis
• Emergency Care
• Outcome
• Further Reading

These case histories and images have been carefully selected to be of value to readers ranging from medical students to the most experienced physicians.

Table of Contents

1. Chapter 1. Airway
2. Chapter 2. Appendages
3. Chapter 3. Central Nervous System
4. Chapter 4. Cardiovascular and Pulmonary
5. Chapter 5. Obstetrics and Gynecology
6. Chapter 6. Foreign Body
7. Chapter 7. Otolaryngology
8. Chapter 8. Abdomen
9. Chapter 9. Electrocardiogram
10. Chapter 10. Intriguing
11. Chapter 11. Ophthalmology
12. Chapter 12. Orthopedics
13. Chapter 13. Dermatology
14. Chapter 14. Genitalia
15. Chapter 15. Self-Imposed
16. Chapter 16. Lifesaving
17. List of Cases
18. List of Figure Legends
19. Index 

Author Biography

Douglas D. Brunette, MD Department of Emergency Medicine, Hennepin County Medical Center; Professor of Emergency Medicine, University of Minnesota School of Medicine.