By Joel T. Levis, Gus M. Garmel
Emergency medication isn't really divided into particular parts of perform. Emergency room viewers are available in all styles and sizes, at any time of day or evening, with a variety of maladies. Emergency physicians have to turn into specialists in various parts of medication and for you to make fast and trained judgements approximately sufferer care. A cornerstone of emergency medication education is the consistent drilling and re-drilling of simulated situations and scientific situations. This booklet deals a special but underutilized method for studying: a case-based process from genuine sufferers and real occasions. each one case presents the chance for studying crucial scientific options. targeted completely at the wishes of in-training emergency physicians and nurses, the booklet covers greater than a hundred universal and weird situations in emergency medication. The methods were class-tested by means of the Stanford/Kaiser Emergency medication Residency application.
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Tachycardic rate, regular rhythm without rubs, murmurs or gallops. CARDIOVASCULAR: LUNGS: Clear to auscultation bilaterally. ABDOMEN: Soft, nontender, nondistended. No clubbing, cyanosis or edema, brisk radial and dorsalis pedis pulses. EXTREMITIES: SKIN: The patient appeared well developed and well nourished, anxious and diaphoretic, and in no acute discomfort. GENERAL APPEARANCE: Temperature Pulse Blood pressure Respirations Oxygen saturation HEENT: Warm and moist, no rashes. NEUROLOGIC: Nonfocal.
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The patient received aspirin 162 mg orally and morphine sulfate IV for his pain. 2).