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. Seventy high-yield cases are illustrated with a variety of static images, including clinical photographs, radiographs and scans, blood films and ECG traces, coupled with integrated imaging videos to enhance understanding. Knowledge is tested via best of three 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 caseload 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 resident 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
About the Author :
Alice Yearwood is an Anaesthetic Trainee, London, UK
Dipak Mistry is Education Lead for Emergency Medicine at University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
