Short description:

This book is based on real patients seen in the emergency department of a busy London teaching hospital. Developed from a project designed to offer an online alternative to in person learning during the COVID-19 pandemic, the material will appeal to readers and educators seeking digital content to supplement traditional learning resources.

Long description:

This innovative book is based on real patients seen in the emergency department of a busy London teaching hospital. Developed from a project designed to offer an online alternative to in person learning during the COVID-19 pandemic, the material will appeal to readers and educators seeking digital content to supplement traditional print-based learning resources. Sixty-five high-yield cases are illustrated with a variety of static images, including clinical photographs, x-rays and scans, blood films and ECG traces, coupled with integrated imaging videos to enhance understanding. Knowledge is tested via best of five questions, reflecting the format of qualifying examinations, while extensive answers provide further opportunities for learning and revision..

Key Features:

• Challenging real life cases coupled with imaging videos as well as static images, optimized for mobile viewing


• Scenarios that appeal to both the novice and experienced doctor in the ED and allied specialties


• Comprehensive coverage across a range of speciality areas reflecting the case-load of acute and emergency hospital settings through which doctors in training rotate


• Meets increasing expectations that non-radiologists are required to interpret and act upon imaging results


• Ideal as a revision aid for those in preparation for FRCEM and equivalent international examinations in emergency medicine

Reflecting both common and more complex clinical scenarios, the content will teach and challenge its readers, from the newly qualified junior doctor to more experienced clinicians and allied health personnel working in emergency and acute settings.

Table of Contents:

Cases

1.       A curiously high lactate

2.       A cycling wrist injury

3.       A deformed arm after falling on the train

4.       A gardener's eye

5.       A painful foot

6.       A painful rash

7.       A smashing Christmas

8.       Abdominal pain and distension in a child

9.       Abdominal pain in a heatwave

10.    Abnormal blood gas

11.    An elderly patient on warfarin

12.    An unusual ECG

13.    Assault

14.    Blown pupil

15.    Bradycardia

16.    Burning chest pain

17.    Central chest pain

18.    Chest pain and weakness

19.    Chest pain in an IVDU

20.    Complex headache

21.    Complication of HIV

22.    Dazed and confused

23.    Do you think it's from the vaccine?

24.    Epigastric pain

25.    Facial trauma

26.    Fall from a wheelchair

27.    Fall in the playground

28.    Fever and back pain

29.    Fever in a returning traveller

30.    Haemoptysis and a swelling

31.    High fevers in a child

32.    Hyperlactataemia

33.    I can't stop vomiting

34.    In a place called vertigo

35.    Loss of vision after an overdose

36.    Lower abdominal pain & distension

37.    Message in a bottle

38.    My arm doesn't feel right

39.    My legs gave way

40.    Off legs

41.    Packing, stuffing, pushing

42.    Palpitations

43.    Pleuritic chest pain

44.    POCUS

45.    Right iliac fossa pain

46.    Right upper quadrant pain

47.    Seizure and leg trauma

48.    Seizure in an international student

49.    Sepsis

50.    Severe respiratory distress

51.    Short of breath at rest

52.    Shortness of breath & palpitations

53.    Slurred speech

54.    Sporting injury under the influence

55.    Stridor

56.    Swollen eye

57.    Swollen knees

58.    Testicular Pain

59.    They told me to do it

60.    Thigh pain

61.    Thunderclap headache

62.    Transient loss of consciousness

63.    Trauma to the chest

64.    Vomiting and ECG changes

65.    Wound problem

Appendix: vital signs normal values

Appendix: laboratory test normal values

Appendix: abbreviations

Index