Main description:

Providing the inside track on how the experts approach and deal with real-world clinical scenarios, Challenging Concepts in Emergency Medicine selects specific challenging cases that are encountered in everyday clinical practice but do not have simple answers. A case-based guide to challenging areas in emergency medicine, this book covers the core and sub-specialty areas, in particular the often grey areas of intensive care and paediatric emergency medicine.
Complex cases are comprehensively examined from a multidisciplinary perspective with detailed consideration given to management options and the contemporary evidence base behind these decisions.

An effective revision aid for MCEM and FCEM and a reference during workplace-based assessments, Challenging Concepts in Emergency Medicine highlights critical information through the use of boxed features: 'Learning points', 'Clinical tips', 'Evidence base', and 'Future advances'. Each chapter has been reviewed by a national or international expert in the field and they have provided an 'Expert commentary', giving a unique insight into how today's opinion leaders confront and deal with
the very same management challenges that all clinicians can potentially face on a daily basis.

Containing summaries of current national and international guidelines, this book is ideal for continuing medical education and revalidation as well as for trainees preparing for examinations.

Contents:

1. The Sepsis Resuscitation Bundle ; 2. Cardio pulmonary resuscitation for the 21st Century ; 3. Traumatic Occult Pneumothorax ; 4. Facial Burns and Inhalation Injury ; 5. Paediatric Head Injury ; 6. PV bleeding in early pregnancy ; 7. The Limping Child ; 8. Corneal Injury ; 9. Procedural Sedation in the Emergency Department ; 10. Atraumatic testicular pain ; 11. Pretibial laceration ; 12. Complex wrist fractures ; 13. Fever in the ED ; 14. Tricyclic Overdose ; 15. 'The worst headache of my life - is it a no brainer?' ; 16. Self-harm ; 17. Febrile seizures ; 18. Right lower quadrant abdominal pain in women: Gynaecology or Surgery? ; 19. Dentofacial Emergencies ; 20. Safeguarding - recognising the abused child and acting on the evidence base ; 21. Femoral Nerve Block for fractured neck of femur ; 22. Sedation and restraint in the ED ; 23. Hypothermia ; 24. 'Cocaine chest pain' ; 25. Croup ; 26. The Collapsed Marathon Runner ; 27. Haemorrhagic rashes in children ; 28. Facial Palsy ; 29. Back Pain