Real life cases for the emergency medicine clerkship and shelf-exam

You need exposure to high-yield cases to excel on the emergency medicine clerkship and the shelf-exam. Case Files: Emergency Medicine presents 50 real-life cases that illustrate essential concepts in emergency medicine. Each case includes a complete discussion, clinical pearls, references, definitions of key terms, and USMLE-style review questions. With this system, you'll learn in the context of real patients, rather then merely memorize facts.

60 high-yield emergency medicine cases, each with USMLE-style questions
Clinical pearls highlight key concepts
Primer on how to approach clinical problems and think like a doctor
Proven learning system maximizes your shelf-exam scores Common terms and phrases: abnormalities active acute administered agents airway ANSWERS antibiotics APPROACH appropriate assess associated bleeding blood pressure breaths cardiac cause cell chest clinical common complications considered decreased develop diabetic ketoacidosis diagnosis disease dose drug effects emergency emergency department Emergency Medicine etiology evaluation examination extremities factors failure fever findings fluid given glucose head heart hemorrhage hospital hypertension hypotension identify immediate important increased indicated infection initial injury intravenous lead less loss lower mental minute myocardial infarction neurologic normal obstruction obtained occur onset oral oxygen pain patient performed physical examination possible pregnancy present pulmonary require respiratory response result risk rule scan seizure severe shock significant signs skin status step stroke studies suspected symptoms syncope syndrome Table tachycardia temperature tenderness therapy tion tissue trauma treated treatment urinary usually woman