Acute Care Casebook

<em>Acute Care Casebook</em> provides a case-based approach to the broad practice of acute care medicine covering a variety of common patient presentations and clinical environments. This book features over 70 illustrated cases including presentations of trauma and medical illness in wilderness medicine military and prehospital environments pediatrics emergency medicine and intensive care unit and floor emergencies. Designed for students and trainees in medicine nursing EMS and other acute care specialties this text guides readers through not only symptom evaluation and treatment but also the thought process and priorities of experienced clinicians. Each chapter features key diagnoses and management pearls from leading experts that will help prepare readers for any event from stabilizing and transporting a trauma patient in the field to managing post-operative complications in the ICU.<br>