Main description:

Medical simulation training involves simulated human patients, educational documents or computer models with detailed simulated animations and/or interactive functionality. This book is written and designed to provide medical educators in emergency medicine with resource for integrating medical simulation into their teaching practices and includes cases drawn from a diverse group of faculty authors across a wide range of medical teaching centers. Valuable tips or tricks accompany case images and other patient data and a companion website includes imaging and laboratory results pertinent to each case study.

Contents:

List of contributors, vii Foreword, xi James A. Gordon 1 Introduction: How to use this book, 1 Traci L. Thoureen and Sara B. Scott 2 Vascular emergencies, 3 Sarah B. Dubbs and Traci L. Thoureen 3 Resuscitation emergencies, 28 Albert T. Nguyen, Dustin D. Smith, T. Kent Denmark, Andrew Bard, and James W. Rhee 4 Gastrointestinal emergencies, 53 Corey R. Heitz and Raymond P. Ten Eyck 5 Renal/electrolyte emergencies, 85 Sara B. Scott and Catherine Pettit 6 Endocrine emergencies, 107 Sarah Farris 7 Environmental emergencies, 129 Moira Davenport 8 Obstetric emergencies, 154 Torrey A. Laack 9 Pulmonary/critical care emergencies, 178 Heather Mahoney and Ani Aydin 10 Toxicologic emergencies, 203 Rodney Omron, Harry E. Herverling, and Andrew I. Stolbach 11 Pediatric emergencies, 226 Jacqueline Nemer and Sandrijn van Schaik 12 Medical error/interpersonal communication, 253 T. Kent Denmark, Andrew Bard, Albert Nguyen, James W. Rhee, and Dustin D. Smith 13 Trauma emergencies, 280 Traci L. Thoureen and Sara B. Scott Index, 309