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Avoiding common errors in the emergency department / editors Amal Mattu, Arjun Chanmugam, Stuart Swadron, Dale P. Woolridge, Michael E. Winters ; series editor Lisa Marcucci.

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

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"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: 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 --
Contents note continued: 104. SJS and TEN: Are They Different? / Shaughn Keating -- 105. Spectrum of TEN / Arun Nair -- 106. Mimics in Cellulitis / Alexander Jenson -- 107. Chickenpox and Shingles: More Than Just a Rash / Shabana Walia -- 108. Erythema Nodosum, Nodules, and Hypersensitivity / Aaryn K. Hammond -- 109. Classic Is Not Always Classic: Classic Rashes / Nicholas Risko -- 110. Normal Bicarbonate Value Does Not Exclude an Acid-Base Disturbance / Debra Ravert -- 111. Don't Forget about Octreotide for Hypoglycemia / Ian Boyd / Seth T. Stearley -- 112. Pitfalls in the Management of DKA / Haley M. Rapp / Erica B. Shaver -- 113. Do Not Rely on Orthostatic Vital Signs to Diagnose Volume Depletion / Anthony Roggio -- 114. HHS: When High Sugars Have Got You Down! / Anand K. Swaminathan / Gordon Wu -- 115. Do Not Over Treat Hypo- or Hypernatremia / Stephanie Lareau -- 116. 3-Pronged Approach to the Treatment of Hyperkalemia / Nicole Cimino-Fiallos / Wan-Tsu Wendy Chang -- 117. Know How to Recognize and Treat Thyroid Storm / Christopher S. Kiefer / Erica B. Shaver -- 118. Understand the Role of Magnesium in the Treatment of Hypokalemia / Henderson D. McGinnis -- 119. Know How to Interpret the Venous Blood Gas / Farhad Aziz / Justin Boone Rose -- 120. Know the Indications for Bicarbonate Therapy / Joshua Nichols / Corey Heitz -- 121. Not So Fast! Rewarming the Cold Patient / Kimberly Boswell -- 122. Acclimatize or Die or Descend / Christopher G. Williams / Kubwimana Moses Mhayamaguru -- 123. Aggressive Cooling Is (Almost) Always the Correct Approach to the Critical, Environmentally Hyperthermic Patient / Clinton G. Keilman -- 124. Smoke Inhalation: Commonly Overtreated and Undertreated Aspects / Christopher G. Williams -- 125. CO Poisoning: It Takes More Than O2 / Dennis Allin -- 126. Rash That Is More Than "Just a Rash" / Bryan Wilson / Christopher G. Williams -- 127. Diving Injuries: Don't Miss These Serious Injuries Because You Failed to Get the History! / Nash Whitaker -- 128. Giant Cell Arteritis: Who the Heck Is Horton and Why Should I Worry about His Headache? / Michael Iacono / Tracy Leigh LeGros -- 129. Sight-Threatening Zoster Ophthahnicus: How to Recognize and Treat / Aisha Parker / James Aiken -- 130. And the Eyes Have It / Suh H. Lee / John Villani -- 131. "Your patient has a retrobulbar hematoma. I think he's going to need a canthotomy." / Summer Stears-Ellis -- 132. Beware the Sore Throat That Kills / Jonathan Dangers -- 133. Consider a Deep Space Neck Infection in a Child with Fever and Neck Pain or Torticollis / Diane Rimple -- 134. Lemierre Syndrome: A Royal Pain in the Neck / Joanna Schwartz -- 135. Peritonsillar Abscess / Frank J. Edwards -- 136. Don't Misdiagnose, Overtreat, or Cause Perforation of the Tympanic Membrane / Ben Leeson / Kimberly Leeson -- 137. If It Ain't Cancer, Why Do I Call This Malignant Otitis Externa? / John Herrick -- 138. Approach to the Red Eye / Allison D. Lane -- 139. Eyeing the Causes of Acute Vision Loss / Lindsey Retterath / Hans Bradshaw -- 140. Face-Eating Fungus: Rhinocerebral Mucormycosis / Benjamin Karfunkle / Anna McFarlin -- 141. Digging for Gold: Some Nuggets about Epistaxis / Eric C. Funk / Casey M. Clements -- 142. Ludwig Angina-"The German Stranglehold" / Josh Mugele -- 143. Dental Exams Are Not Just for Dentists; Remember to Identify and Treat Oral Infections / Dustin Leigh -- 144. Infection behind the Infection: Distinguishing Periorbital from Orbital Cellulitis / Ashley Sievers -- 145. When Kidneys Explode; Everything Is Wrong with Tumor Lysis Syndrome / Samuel J. Tate / John S. Rose -- 146. Immune Thrombocytopenia: Oh the Platelets, You'll Go! / Daniel Cabrera -- 147. Thrombotic Thrombocytopenic Purpura and Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome: Bloody Zebras with a Bad Bite / Neha Bhasin / Nicole Muhlbauer -- 148. High Temps and Low Counts: Treat Febrile Neutropenic Patients with Early and Appropriate Antibiotics / Stephen A. Manganaro -- 149. My Chest! My Back! My Sickle Cell Attack! / Steven Roumpf / Matthew W. Connelly -- 150. Warfarin Reversal: Factor It In / Cullen Clark / Anna McFarlin -- 151. Emergent Anticoagulant Reversal: Be Appropriately Aggressive / Daren M. Beam / William B. Stubblefield -- 152. Recognize Leukostasis and Know When to Consult for Emergent Treatment / Keith Azevedo / Isaac Tamil -- 153. Don't Get Stung by Anaphylaxis / Cameron Hypes -- 154. Angioedema and Anaphylaxis Are Not the Same, They Just Happen to Present Similarly / Vincent Devlin / Jerussa Aita-Levy -- 155. Treacherous Transplant Toxicities / Lui Caleon / Pierre Detiege -- 156. Think Outside the "Graft Box" When Evaluating the Transplant Patient / Christopher J. Edwards / Tsz Yee Tsui -- 157. Do's and Don'ts for Managing Heart Transplant Patients in the ED / Timothy S. Davie -- 158. Anaphylaxis and Epinephrine-Can You Have One without the Other? / Lawrence DeLuca Jr -- 159. Avoid Relying on the Presence of SIRS to Diagnose Sepsis / Ronna L. Campbell -- 160. Prevent Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infections (CAUTIs) in the Emergency Department / Kami M. Hu / Joseph P. Martinez -- 161. Know the Embolic Complications of Infective Endocarditis / Stephen Y. Liang -- 162. Don't Miss Diagnosis: Acute Retroviral Syndrome / Brian Edwards -- 163. Understand When and How to Initiate HIV Postexposure Prophylaxis in the Emergency Department / Joseph R. Martinez / Adeolu Ogunbodede -- 164. Recognize the Presentation of Bioterrorism Agents / Stephen Y. Liang / Ed Casabar -- 165. Staphylococcal Toxic Shock Syndrome: Do Not Hesitate-Resuscitate / Jon Mark Hirshon / Stephen R. Shaheen -- 166. Do Not Be Misled by the Traditional Myths of Diarrhea / Sarah B. Dubbs -- 167. Meningitis Doesn't Have to Be a Pain in the Neck! / Kevin Reed / Michael Nitzberg -- 168. Know Emerging Infections / Liesl A. Curtis / Nick Tsipis -- 169. TB and Syphilis: Infections You Can't Forget About / Travis Thompson / Lindsey White -- 170. Avoiding Common Pitfalls in Influenza Treatment / Kayla Dewey / Ghofrane Benghanem -- 171. Appropriate Antibiotic Choices for Resistant Organisms / Eric Stephen Kiechle / Maryann Mazer-Amirshahi -- 172. Know Infection Prevention / Kathryn M. Kellogg / Jessica E. Shackman -- 173. Treating Pneumonia in COPD / Lindsey DeGeorge / Lauren Wiesner -- 174. Diagnose and Treat Necrotizing Soft Tissue Infections Quickly! / Jeffrey Dubin / Diana Ladkany -- 175. What Is the Best Way to Measure Core Temperature? / Tabitha Gargano / Korin Hudson -- 176. Ugh! Another Repeat Visit for Back Pain?! Keep Epidural Abscess on the Differential! / Matthew Morrison -- 177. If You Suspect the Horse's Tail, Check the Saddle! / Elaine Hua Situ-LaCasse -- 178. Under Pressure: Rapidly Diagnosing and Treating Acute Compartment Syndrome of the Extremities / Courtney K. Soley / Heather Miller Fleming -- 179. Physical Exam and Bloodwork Do Not Adequately Differentiate Infectious from Inflammatory Arthritis / Anna L. Waterbrook -- 180. Don't Get Broken Up about Muscle Breakdown / Derick D. Jones / Casey M. Clements -- 181. When Back Pain Is an Emergency / H. Shae Sauncy -- 182. Rheumatoid Arthritis and Spondyloarthropathies / James Bohan -- 183. Update on Idiopathic Intracranial Hypertension / J. Stephan Stapczynski -- 184. Normal Diagnostic Studies Do Not Rule Out Shunt Malfunction / Ramin Tabatabai / Evelyn Lee -- 185. Don't Be Fooled into Erroneously Diagnosing Peripheral Vertigo / Amy Buckowski -- 186. Diagnosing Cervical Artery Dissection in the ED: A Real Pain in the Neck! / Daniel Mindlin -- 187. Posterior Circulation Ischemic Stroke: If You Don't Think about It, You'll Miss It / Ramin Tabatabai / Erik R. Hofmann -- 188. Understand the Utility and Limitations of Diagnostic Imaging in Nontraumatic Subarachnoid Hemorrhage / Craig Torres-Ness -- 189. Don't Forget Atypical Causes of Status Epilepticus! / Manuel R. Montano -- 190. Leave It Alone: Blood Pressure Measurement in Ischemic / R. James Salway -- 191. Cerebral Venous Sinus Thrombosis: A Rare Diagnosis with a Common Chief Complaint / Stroke Amir A. Rouhani -- 192. Great Imitators of Acute Stroke / Stuart Swadron / Margarita Santiago-Martinez -- 193. Blood Pressure in the Patient with Intracranial Hemorrhage-Bring It Down! / Aarti Jain -- 194. How to Disposition the Patient with Suspected TIA / Edward Stettner / Daniel R. Rutz -- 195. Elusive Brain Abscess / Mindi Guptill / Allen Chiou -- 196. Bulbar Symptoms in the ED: Watch the Airway / Jeffrey N. Siegelman / Shikha Kapil -- 197. Multiple Sclerosis in the ED: Rule Out Other Diagnoses First / Ariel Bowman -- 198. Early Pregnancy: Sifting Out the Potential Catastrophes from the Worried Well / Melissa White / Christopher Bodle -- 199. Pitfalls in the Pursuit of Ovarian Torsion / Jared T. Marx -- 200. Anti-D in the ED / Matthew C. DeLaney -- 201. Seizing Young Woman? Think Eclampsia. Thinking Eclampsia? Think Again / Brent Lorenzen -- 202. Vaginal Bleeding in Late Pregnancy / Kenneth D. Marshall -- 203. Predict the Unpredictable: Preterm Labor / Heather A. Heaton -- 204. Bump on the Bump: Minor Abdominal Trauma in Pregnancy / Priya Kuppusamy -- 205. Stable Is the New Abnormal: Beware the Normal Vital Signs in Pregnancy / Sreeja Natesan / Elias J. Jaffa -- 206. Don't Fear the Cord! / Priya Kuppusamy -- 207. Times a Wastin': Perimortem Cesarean Section / Kristina Colbenson / Erika Hoenke McMahon -- 208. Clotted Lungs: Not All Shortness of Breath in Pregnancy Is from Lamaze Class / Vivienne Ng --
Contents note continued: 209. Postpartum Complications / Jeremy Lux -- 210. There Is No Single Test to Rule Out PID: Just Treat It! / Heather A. Heaton -- 211. Don't Dismiss the Young, Female Patient with Shortness of Breath without Considering Peripartum Cardiomyopathy / Casey M. Clements / Theresa Q. Tran -- 212. Delirium / Kathi Glauner -- 213. Restraint with Restraints: Patient Restraint / Casey Carr -- 214. Mental Status Concern? Consider Psychosis / Robert B. Dunne / Grant Nelson -- 215. Ask about Suicide Risk / Shabana Walia / Sarika Walia -- 216. Strange Behavior? Personality Disorders in the ED / Donald W. Alves / Trent R. Malcolm -- 217. Don't Ignore Affective Disorders! / Kerri N Booker -- 218. Drug-Seeking Behavior in the Emergency Department / Trent R. Malcolm -- 219. Anxiety in the Emergency Department / Michael Wolfe Pierce -- 220. Address It in the ED, Substance Abuse in the Emergency Department / Sachin Moonat -- 221. Don't Let Dialysis Disequilibrium Syndrome Catch You Off-Balance / Sachin Moonat -- 222. Fournier Gangrene: A Lethal Infection You Can't Sit on! / Carmen Wolfe -- 223. Testicular Torsion Trickery / Shoma Desai -- 224. Hemodialysis: Who Needs It Now? / Solomon Behar -- 225. To Thrill or Not to Thrill: When Dialysis Access Sites Go Wrong / Michael Levine -- 226. Wrap Your Head around This: Avoiding the Pitfalls of Phimosis and Paraphimosis Management / Caroline Brandon -- 227. Pyelonephritis: When It's Complicated Urine Trouble / Kelly A. Painter -- 228. What Goes Up Must Come Down / Sophie Terp / Molly Hartrich -- 229. Streamlining Urethritis: Don't Let an STD Escape Your ED / Jessica Lange Osterman -- 230. I Don't Think My Urine Is Supposed to Look Like This! / Clare Roepke -- 231. Do Not Forget to Administer Steroids in Patients with Acute Asthma Exacerbations / Landon A. Jones -- 232. Do Not Withhold Oxygen in a Hypoxic Patient with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease / Michele Callahan -- 233. Know Acute Illnesses That Lead to Rapid Deterioration in the Patient with Pulmonary Hypertension / Anand K. Swaminathan / Brian J. Lin -- 234. Know the Critical Issues in Resuscitation of the Decompensated Patient with Pulmonary Hypertension / James Mathew Dargin / Dhaval Thakkar -- 235. Know the Evaluation and Management of the Patient with Sarcoidosis / James Mathew Dargin / Jacob C. Jentzer -- 236. Properly Risk Stratify the Patient with Suspected Pulmonary Embolism / Harman S. Gill -- 237. Know How to Diagnose and Treat Pulmonary Embolism / Kelly Williamson -- 238. Know Which Patients with Submassive Pulmonary Embolism May Benefit from Thrombolytic Therapy / Nicholas M. Mohr / Ryan Dick-Perez -- 239. Understand Proper Ventilator Management in Patients with Acute Asthma Exacerbations / Lillian L. Emlet / Sangeeth Dubbireddi -- 240. Know the Causes, Evaluation, and Management of Hemoptysis / Anand K. Swaminathan / Salim Rezaie -- 241. Use High-Flow Nasal Cannula in Patients with Mild to Moderate Respiratory Distress from Hypoxemia / Matthew P. Borloz -- 242. Alcohol Intoxication and Withdrawal / Jonathan Elmer / Ross McCormack -- 243. Acetaminophen Toxicity: Getting Reacquainted with Matthew and Rumack / Candice Jordan -- 244. Mixed Disturbance: Think Salicylate Poisoning / David Rose -- 245. Toxic Alcohols / Tiffany C. Fong / Harry E. Heverling -- 246. Five Stages Iron Toxicity: Beware of the Latent Period / Candice Jordan -- 247. Don't Miss Anticholinergic Syndromes! / Christina Clark -- 248. Cholinergic Poisoning / Theodore Fagrelius -- 249. Old Favorite Heart Medication: Digoxin / Theodore Fagrelius -- 250. Did You Consider Intravenous Lipid Emulsion Therapy? / Daniel B. Savage -- 251. Managing the Hot and Bothered: Sympathomimetic Overdoses / Donald W. Alves / Aaryn K. Hammond -- 252. Emerging Drugs of Abuse / Arun Nair -- 253. Cyanide Poisoning: A Tale of Two Antidotes / Chelsea Williamson -- 254. Methemoglobinemia: Blue Pearls / Scott E. Sutherland -- 255. Should I Take That? Nutritional Supplements / Dilnaz Panjroani / Mitchell Louis Judge Li -- 256. Electrical Injuries: Shocking or Subtle? / Sarika Walia / Edmund Timpano -- 257. "Don't Tase Me Bro!" The TASERed Patient in the ED / Tim Horeczko -- 258. Managing Penetrating Neck Injuries: Hard or Soft, Superficial or Deep? / Peter Milano -- 259. To Crack or Not to Crack: Indications for an ED Thoracotomy / Melissa Joseph -- 260. Performing an ED Thoracotomy / Sanjay Bhatt -- 261. Save a Limb! Vascular Injury in Penetrating Extremity / Sanjay Bhatt -- 262. Judicious Abdominal Imaging in Trauma / Trauma Taylor McCormick -- 263. Severe Traumatic Brain Injury: Avoid Making It Worse! / Erick A. Eiting -- 264. Fluid Resuscitation in Trauma: Five Pitfalls / Ashkon Ansari -- 265. How Do You Fill a Tank with Holes in It? Optimal Vascular Access in Trauma Resuscitation / Erick A. Eiting -- 266. Don't Be Afraid to Place a Chest Tube / Benjamin D. Musser -- 267. Massive Transfusion in Trauma: A Changing Landscape / Dhara P. Amin -- 268. Reversal of Warfarin in Trauma / Tartan Hedayati -- 269. Reversal of Novel Anticoagulants and Antiplatelet Agents / Joseph S. Palter -- 270. When to Suspect Cervical Vascular Injury / Dhara P. Amin -- 271. Alternatives to Packed Red Blood Cells: The Latest / Tarlan Hedayati / Stuart Smadron -- 272. Tough Break: Assessing and Treating Rib Fractures / Tartan Hedayati -- 273. Not So FAST: Pearls and Pitfalls with the FAST Exam / Michael Gottlieb -- 274. Closing the Book: Using a Bedsheet to Stabilize Pelvic Fractures / Michael Gottlieb -- 275. Is Spinal Immobilization Still Necessary? / Stuart Swadron / Michael Gottlieb -- 276. Are Vital Signs Reliable at Assessing Degree of Hemorrhage? / Joseph Palter -- 277. ABCs of Major Burns / Michael K. Safa -- 278. When Can Interventional Radiology (IR) Be Your Friend in Trauma? / Stuart Swadron / Mary L. Cheffers -- 279. Don't Miss the Gamekeeper Thumb / Eric Wei / Lee Plantmason -- 280. Admit Displaced Supracondylar Fractures for Neurovascular Checks / Brian R. Sharp -- 281. Know the Radiographic Signs of Scapholunate Dislocation / Eric Wei / Allison S. Luu -- 282. Know the Difference between Jones and Pseudo-Jones Fractures / Stuart Swadron / Nicholas Abraham -- 283. Search for Other Injuries in Patients with Scapular Fracture / Brian R. Sharp -- 284. Do You Know How to Do ABIs? / John W. Martel -- 285. Don't Miss the Proximal Fibula Fracture in Patients with Ankle Fracture / John C. Ray -- 286. Boxer's Fracture? Check for Rotational Deformity! / Stuart Swadron / Shawn K. Kaku -- 287. Think of Achilles Tendon Rupture in Patients with Sprained / Jennifer Marvil -- 288. Reduce Hip Dislocations in a Timely Manner / Ankle Jennifer Farah -- 289. Check for Snuffbox Tenderness and Don't Miss a Scaphoid Fracture / Erik A. Berg -- 290. Calcaneal Fracture? Don't Miss a Spinal Injury! / Benjamin D. Musser -- 291. Beware of Benign-Appearing High-Pressure Injection Injuries / Sara Khaghani -- 292. Lisfranc Injury: Danger in the Midfoot / Jennifer Farah -- 293. Dorsal Chip: Is It a Triquetral Fracture? / Lee Plantmason -- 294. Lunate and Perilunate Dislocations: Pick These Up on Initial Presentation! / Caroline Brandon -- 295. Red Flags for Intimate Partner Violence and Human Trafficking / Todd Schneberk -- 296. Sedation Pearls and Pitfalls: Procedural Sedation in the Emergency Department / Kristi Stanley -- 297. Capnography in the ED: Qualitative or Quantitative Monitoring? For CPR and a Whole Lot More / Chidubem Iloabachie -- 298. To Transfuse or Not to Transfuse / Arun Nair -- 299. Transfusion Confusion: Types and Management of Transfusion Reactions / Debra Ravert -- 300. Arthrocentesis Tips / Scott E. Sutherland -- 301. Lumbar Puncture and the Champagne Tap / Ashley Sullivan / Christine Mlynarek -- 302. Tapping the Belly: Paracentesis in the Emergency Department / Chelsea Williamson -- 303. Careful with That Tap: Accessing the VP Shunt / Leonard Bunting / Thaer Ahmad -- 304. No IV, Consider the IO / Derrick Ashong -- 305. What Nerve! Ultrasound-Guided Regional Nerve Blocks / Daniel B. Savage -- 306. Needling Issue: Decompressing Tension Pneumothorax / Casey Lee Wilson -- 307. Which Line Is It? Central Line Placement / Arun Nair -- 308. Size Matters; Spontaneous Pneumothorax: Chest Tube versus Pigtail / Richard Paul / Dilnaz Panjwani -- 309. Recognize Child Abuse Early / Derrick Ashong -- 310. Tips for Managing All That Is Pediatric Resuscitation / Clifford C. Ellingson -- 311. Keep the Baby Warm! And Other Steps in Neonatal Resuscitation / Heather Saavedra / Jason Saunders -- 312. Pediatric Airway: Learn It, Live It, Control It! / Jessica Kanis / Ashley Grigsby -- 313. All That Barks Is Not Croup / Garrett S. Pacheco -- 314. Don't Get in Hot Water by Not Knowing How to Treat Pediatric Burns / Sheryl Yanger -- 315. My Baby Won't Stop Crying! / Sheryl E. Allen / Megan Litzau -- 316. Pediatric Procedural Sedation in the ED: Easier Than You May Think / Timothy Ruttan / J. Adam Hawkins -- 317. Ins and Outs of Intussusception / Jordan Alexander Justice -- 318. Do Not Rely On Urinalysis to Exclude Urinary Tract Infections in Children Younger Than Two Years / Debra S. Rusk / Geoffrey P. Hays -- 319. Bundle of Joy! The Sick Neonate / Arturo S. Gastanaduy -- 320. Beware Pediatric Appendicitis / Robert Vezzetti -- 321. Diagnoses Not to Miss in the Acutely Limping Child / Julia Schweizer -- 322. Don't Diagnose Sepsis in an Alkalotic Infant / Guyon J. Hill --
Contents note continued: 323. BRUE: The Diagnosis Formerly Known as ALTE / Julianne Awrey / Lisa D. Mills -- 324. "Kid ECGs Are Not Just Little Adult ECGs" / Taylor Stayton / Julia N. Magana -- 325. Not All Pediatric Head Injuries Require a Head CT / Krista Young -- 326. Easy Does It: Be Cautious with the Cyanotic Postoperative Pediatric Cardiac Patient / Kara Kowalczyk / Heather Miller Fleming -- 327. Not Too Sweet: Getting It Just Right in Initial Pediatric DKA Management / Timothy Ruttan -- 328. Pediatric Concussion: A Levelheaded Approach / Nathan Kuppermann / Dariush Garber -- 329. Do Not Underestimate the Potential Morbidity of Abdominal Pain in Older Adults / Erin Osiecki / Kendra Grether-Jones -- 330. Think about ACS in Older Adults-Even without Chest Pain / Christina L. Shenvi -- 331. ACS the Geriatric Patient: Atypical Is Typical Treatment Differences in ACS in the Geriatric Patient / Christina L. Shenvi -- 332. Follow Your Elders' Footsteps, They May Be Ataxic / Terrence Mulligan -- 333. Hip and Vertebral Compression Fractures / Michelle Rhodes / Jennifer L. Plitt -- 334. Be Sure to Build a Safety Net around the Weak Geriatric Patient You Send Home / Paul Blackburn / Sang Keun Yi -- 335. Grandma is Loopy: Special Considerations for Altered Mental Status in the Older Adult / Eric M. LeFebvre -- 336. Geriatric Trauma Patient Is Sicker Than You Realize / Christine R. Stehman -- 337. Normal Physical Exam Does Not Exclude Infections in the Geriatric Patient / Michelle Rhodes / Rebecca Milligan -- 338. Respecting Thy Elders: Defining, Detecting, and Reporting Elder Abuse / Danya Khoujah -- 339. How to Avoid Snowing Seniors: Pain Medications and Procedural Sedation in Older Adults / Patricia Bayless -- 340. Consequences of Grandpa's Loaded Medicine Cabinet / Lisa C. Goldberg / Michelle Rhodes -- 341. Communicating and Understanding the Elder Patient / Ryan Gallagher / Stephen Thornton -- 342. Deep Sutures: When, Why, and Why Not? / Collyn T. Murray / Kevin Biese -- 343. Pitfalls in Emergency Department Abscess Incision and Drainage / R. Alissa Mussell / Hollynn Larrabee -- 344. Keep It Clean: Pitfalls in Traumatic Wound Irrigation / Jesse Dubey / David Wein -- 345. Plantar Puncture Wound Pearls and Pitfalls / Anand K. Smaminathan / Elicia Skelton -- 346. Do Not Believe the Adage That Epinephrine Cannot Be Used for Digital Blocks / R. Gentry Wilkerson -- 347. When Are Prophylactic Antibiotics Indicated for Wounds? / Feras Khan -- 348. Do Not Miss a Foreign Body in a Wound / Dale Cotton -- 349. Know How to Treat Mammalian Bites / Constantino Diaz / Jason W. Wilson -- 350. Is That Skin Lesion an Infection or an Envenomation? / Christopher I. Doty -- 351. Know How to Treat Snake Bites / Spencer Greene / Veronica Tucci -- 352. Eyelid Lacerations: When to Repair and When to Refer / Frederick C. Blum / Shabnam Nourparvar -- 353. Ear Injuries and Lacerations / Erin Setzer -- 354. Know Which Wounds to Close... and Which Ones to Leave Open / Eric J. Morley / Anas Sawas -- 355. Consult Communications: Optimal Communications with Consultants / Raymond Beyda / Mark Silverberg -- 356. Treating the Patient and Not the Disease: Tips for Patient Satisfaction / Hugh F. Hill III -- 357. Your Patient Has Died, Now Focus on the Family: How to Deliver Bad News to Family Members / Dylan Sean Kellogg -- 358. Don't Be Afraid to Discuss End-of-Life Decisions with the Patient and Family / Dylan Sean Kellogg -- 359. Too Many at One Time? Emergency Department Overcrowding / Emily Streyer Carlisle -- 360. Discharge Documentation: Keep It Clear, Concise, Yet Complete / Ryan Brooks / Arjun Chanmugam -- 361. Resident and Advanced Practice Provider Supervision / David Rose -- 362. What to Do with So Many? Strategies for Reducing Emergency Department Overcrowding / Patricia Petrella Nouhan / Robert B. Takla -- 363. What to Do When the Registered Letter Arrives / Arjun Chanmugam / Ryan Brooks -- 364. Your Deposition / Kevin M. Klauer -- 365. Surviving a Lawsuit / Kevin M. Klauer.
Subject: Emergency medicine.
Medical errors.
Critical Care > methods.
Emergency Service, Hospital.
Medical Errors > prevention & control.
Emergency medicine.
Medical errors.

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