Case Studies in Emergency Medicine A Collection of Memorable Clinically Relevant Cases with Clinical Pearls

In this book, experienced emergency physicians describe, in a way that is both suspenseful and instructive, often dramatic and humanly touching emergency scene calls with which they have been confronted in the course of their professional lives. Each case is discussed and finishes with a conclusion...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Wenzel, Volker (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin, Heidelberg Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2023, 2023
Edition:1st ed. 2023
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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Summary:In this book, experienced emergency physicians describe, in a way that is both suspenseful and instructive, often dramatic and humanly touching emergency scene calls with which they have been confronted in the course of their professional lives. Each case is discussed and finishes with a conclusion to help in future practice. Emergency physicians and ambulance staff thus receive valuable tips for their own future work. From the contents Serious traffic accident in fog - The final exam - Buried under concrete slabs - Emergency on the fairground - Inferno on the highway - Choking attack in a nursing home - Collapse during a tennis match - Development stages of a medical doctor - Suicide in quarantine - High-rise building on fire - Emergency cricothyroidotomy - A nearly deadly tea - Abandoned newborn - Accident while shredding - Avalanche burial - Swallow and brake failure - Fall from a tree house - Injury from power line - Hybrid ECMO - Head injury in Afghanistan. The editor Volker Wenzel, M.D., MSc., FERC is Chairman of the Department of Anesthesiology, Intensive Care Medicine, Emergency Medicine and Pain Therapy at Medical Campus Lake Constance - Friedrichshafen and Tettnang, Germany; and Courtesy Professor of Anesthesiology at the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida, United States. He has more than 25 years of experience in emergency medicine and authored more than 330 peer-reviewed articles; he also serves as emergency medicine section editor of the specialist journal “Die Anaesthesiologie”. The translation was done with the helpof artificial intelligence. A subsequent revision was done by the editor and the authors primarily in terms of content
Physical Description:XVI, 252 p. 1 illus online resource
ISBN:9783662672495