Clinical Emergency Medicine Casbook

Emergency Medicine is not divided into specific areas of practice. Emergency room visitors come in all shapes and sizes, at any time of day or night, with a wide range of maladies. Emergency physicians need to become experts in diverse areas of medicine and to be able to make quick and informed decisions about patient care. A cornerstone of emergency medicine training is the constant drilling and re-drilling of simulated cases and clinical scenarios. This book offers a unique yet underutilized strategy for learning: a case-based approach from real patients and actual events. Each case provides the opportunity for learning essential clinical concepts. Focused exclusively on the needs of in-training emergency physicians and nurses, the book covers more than 100 common and unusual cases in emergency medicine. The procedures have been class-tested by the Stanford/Kaiser Emergency Medicine Residency Program.

About the Author

Joel T. Levis, MD, PhD, is Clinical Instructor of Emergency Medicine and Surgery at Stanford University School of Medicine and Senior Emergency Physician for Kaiser Permanente Medical Group, Santa Clara, California.

Gus M. Garmel, MD, FACEP, FAAEM, is Clinical Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine and Surgery at Stanford University School of Medicine and Senior Emergency Physician for Kaiser Permanente Medical Group, Santa Clara, California. Dr Garmel is coauthor with Dr S. V. Mahadevan of An Introduction to Clinical Emergency Medicine: Guide for Practitioners in the Emergency Department, published in 2005.