More Case Studies in Emergency Medicine A Collection of Memorable Clinically Relevant Cases with Clinical Pearls

Following the successful book Case Studies in Emergency Medicine, More Case Studies in Emergency Medicine is another book with real, exciting and instructive case studies. Emergency physicians with many years of experience describe often dramatic and humanly touching emergency scene calls with which they have been confronted in the course of their professional lives. Each case is discussed based on the current literature and finishes with a conclusion to help in future practice. It is aimed at all those who work in emergency medicine or the emergency medical service and want to learn from the experience of their colleagues. Emergency physicians and nurses, paramedics and emergency medical technicians receive valuable tips for their own future work.

Excerpts: Infant in bed.- Talent train crash.- Businessman in hotel.- (K)ein Schatz im See.- Mein Heimatland Ukraine.- A pint, a pint! My kingdom for a pint (of blood)!.- Shisha outdoors.- Impending birth.- A well-known patient.- Child by the pond.- Flood in the Ahr valley.- Blue tongue instead of red cheeks.- Tractor and child.- nihil nocere in times of guidelines & co.- Unclear tachypnoea.

Volker Wenzel, MD, MSc, FERC is Chairman of the Department of Anesthesiology, Intensive Care Medicine, Emergency Medicine and Pain Therapy at Medical Campus Lake Constance - Friedrichshafen and Tettnang, Germany. He is the author of more than 330 peer-reviewed articles, editor of the emergency medicine section of the German specialist journal “Die Anästhesiologie” and Courtesy Professor of Anesthesiology at the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida, USA.