Review: 5 Minute Pediatric Emergency Medicine Consult pdf

This book is a concise consult providing handy hints when dealing with a child or adolescent in the Emergency Department. The 5 minute reference gives practical information that is easy to digest either before, during or after you’ve seen the patient. Whether, like me, you are just beginning a world of paediatric medicine or an old hand that has ‘seen it all’, it provides a useful double check for those common conditions as well as a handy emergency overview for some of the more weird and wonderful things that children present with.
Despite the daunting size of this book (over 1000 A4 pages), the straightforward A to Z format makes finding what you need effortless and time saving. Each theme is laid out over a 2 page spread and written in easy to read columns with bullet points listing the key features of the pathophysiology, assessment, investigations, differentials, resuscitation, treatment, disposition and follow up. I particularly like the use of admission and discharge criteria, not as an absolute, but a useful pointer to which way things are headed. At the front and back of the book are essential quick reference tables on common resuscitation drugs, rapid sequence intubation, the paediatric coma scale, cardiovascular emergencies, respiratory emergencies, procedural sedation, antidotes and burns estimations

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August 29, 2016

Emergency Medicine Pediatrics