Last Minute Emergency Medicine

Overview

Main description

This new study guide presents all the important topics covered on emergency medicine exams with a special emphasis on comparing and contrasting disease presentations and treatments to one another. Written by experts in residency education, Last Minute Emergency Medicine provides an outstanding final tune-up to board review.

Table of contents

1. Signs, Symptoms, and Presentations
2. Abdominal & Gastrointestinal Disorders
3. Cardiovascular Disorders
4. Cutaneous Disorders
5. Endocrine, Metabolic, and Nutritional Disorders
6. Environmental Disorders
7. Head, Ear, Eye, Nose and Throat Disorders
8. Hematologic Disorders
9. Immune System Disorders
10. Systemic Infectious Disorders
11. Musculoskeletal Disorders (Non-traumatic)
12. Nervous System Disorders
13. Obstetrics and Gynecology
14. Pediatrics
15. Psychobehavorial Disorders
16. Renal and Urogenital Disorders
17. Thoracic-Repiratory Disorders
18. Toxicologic Disorders
19. Traumatic Disorders
20. Procedures and Skills
21. Other Components of the Practice of Emergency Medicine

Author comments

Mary Jo Wagner, MD
Associate Professor and Resident Program Director, Department of Emergency Medicine, Michigan State University, Lansing, Michigan

Susan B. Promes, MD
Associate Professor and Resident PRogram Director, Division of Emergency Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina