Emergency Room Medicine notes

01 What's inside

Every topic, from its contents page.

• Overview of Emergency Medicine
  • – Basic Life Support
  • – Advanced Life Support
  • – Potentially Reversible Causes of an Arrest
• Loss of Consciousness / ALOC (Altered Level of Consciousness)
• Neurological Emergencies
  • – Common Neurological Presentations
  • – Patterns of Loss of Sensation
  • – Spinal Cord Deficits
  • – Concussion
  • – Brain Contusion
  • – Brain Laceration
  • – Diffuse Axonal Injury
  • – Intracranial Haemorrhages
  • – Strokes
  • – Seizures & Epilepsy
  • – Meningitis
  • – Encephalitis
  • – Raised Intracranial Pressure
  • – Brain Herniations
  • – "Red Eye"
• Cardiovascular Emergencies
  • – Shock
  • – Fluid Replacement Therapy
  • – Hypertension
  • – Arrhythmias
  • – Framework for Looking at ECGs
  • – Heart Failure
  • – Acute Cardiogenic Pulmonary Oedema
  • – Deep Vein Thrombosis ("Phlebothrombosis"/"Thrombophlebitis")
  • – Pulmonary Embolism
  • – Cardiac Tamponade
  • – Aneurysms & Dissections
  • – Ischaemic Heart Disease
  • – Assessment of CVS Emergencies
• Respiratory Emergencies
  • – Airway Hypersensitivity & Asthma
  • – Acute Laryngotracheobronchitis (Croup)
  • – Acute Epiglottitis
  • – Lower Respiratory Tract Infections
  • – Bronchiolitis
  • – SARS & COVID - Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome
  • – Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD)
  • – Pneumothorax
  • – Hypoxia and Hypercapnia
  • – Treating Respiratory Emergencies
• Gastrointestinal Emergencies
  • – Abdominal Pain
  • – Gastric Emergencies
  • – Pancreatic Emergencies
  • – Gallbladder Emergencies
  • – Liver-Related Emergencies
  • – Intestinal Emergencies
  • – Rectal Bleeding
  • – Gastroenteritis
• Musculoskeletal Emergencies
  • – Bony Injuries
  • – Osteomyelitis
  • – Septic Arthritis
  • – Gout (Gouty Arthritis)
• Endocrine Emergencies
  • – Thyroid Emergencies
  • – Pituitary Emergencies
  • – Adrenal Emergencies
  • – Diabetic Emergencies
• Renal Emergencies
  • – Urogenic Pain
  • – Acute Renal Failures
  • – Nephrolithiasis & Urolithiasis
  • – Catheterization
• Toxicological Emergencies
• Women's Health Emergencies
• Men's Health Emergencies
• Obstetric Emergencies
• Paediatric Considerations in an Emergency Setting
• Fluid Management (Emergency Context)
• Post-Operative Complications
• Psychiatric Emergencies
  • – Psychosis
  • – Suicide & Self-Harm
  • – Grief & Loss