Avoiding Common Errors in the Emergency Department.

Intro -- Title -- Copyright -- Disclaimer -- Associate Editors -- Contributors -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Contents.html -- SECTION I: CRASHING PATIENT -- 1 Don't Lose That Airway! Imminent Airway Loss: Who Needs Endotracheal Intubation? -- 2 Preoxygenation -- 3 Airway Adjuncts: Know Your Backup Plans -- 4 Know Your RSI Meds -- 5 Did You Maximize Your Laryngeal View? -- 6 Don't Fear the Blade: Surgical Airway -- 7 Do Not Rely on Clinical Examination Alone for Confirmation of Endotracheal Tube Placement -- 8 The Art of Bagging -- 9 BP Still Low? Postintubation Hypotension -- 10 Finding the Site: Site Selection and Minimizing Complications for Central Line Placement -- 11 Managing Cardiac Arrest -- 12 Medications in Cardiac Arrest: Time for a Requiem? -- 13 What are Your Vent Settings, Bud? -- 14 After the Cardiac Arrest: Postarrest Care -- 15 Cooling, How Low Do You Go? Therapeutic Hypothermia in the Postarrest Patient -- 16 Activate the Cardiac Cath Team following Sudden Cardiac Arrest- Don't Be Afraid to Call -- 17 Rush to Resuscitation -- 18 Do Not Delay the Administration of Epinephrine for Patients with Anaphylaxis -- 19 Putting on the Squeeze…Vasopressors -- 20 How Much is Enough? Transfusions in the Bleeding Patient: Don't Forget the Rest of the Blood -- 21 Fluid Therapy: Beware of (AB)Normal Saline-Choose Your Resuscitation Fluids Carefully -- 22 ECMO -- 23 Needle This: Do Not Assume That Needle Decompression of a Tension Pneumothorax is Reliable and Effective -- 24 Resuscitative Thoracotomy -- 25 Increased ICP in Resuscitation -- 26 Massive Pulmonary Thromboembolism and Thrombolytics -- 27 Fluid in the Sac? Cardiac Tamponade -- 28 Is It Wide or Is it Narrow? PEA: A Simplified Approach to Pulseless Electrical Activity -- 29 Undifferentiated Shock -- 30 Know How to Identify Abdominal Compartment Syndrome -- 31 Cardiogenic Shock.

32 Know When to Administer Sodium Bicarbonate in the Critically Ill Poisoned Patient -- 33 Think Big Vessels: Vascular Catastrophes -- 34 Stop the Bleeding! Novel Therapies: REBOA -- 35 Avoid the Tube! Noninvasive Ventilation Strategies -- 36 Be Wary of Intubation in the Asthma Patient -- SECTION II: CRITICAL CARE -- 37 Stop Using Benzodiazepines to Sedate Your Critically Ill Intubated Patient -- 38 Monitor the Plateau Pressure in Intubated ED Patients -- 39 Forget CVP! Use Dynamic Markers of Volume Responsiveness to Guide Fluid Resuscitation in the Critically Ill Patient -- 40 Consider Abdominal Compartment Syndrome in Patients with Refractory Hypotension -- 41 Know the Thresholds for Red Blood Cell Transfusion in the Critically Ill -- 42 Perform These Simple Interventions That Make a Big Difference in Preventing Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia -- 43 Know How to Care for the ICU Boarder in Your ED -- 44 Know How to Evaluate and Manage the Intubated Patient with Refractory Hypoxemia -- 45 Ready for Prime Time? Extracorporeal Life Support in the ED -- 46 Rapidly Reverse Life-Threatening Hemorrhage in the Patient Taking an Oral Anticoagulant Medication -- 47 Be Ready to Discuss and Deliver End-of-Life Care in the Emergency Department -- SECTION III: CARDIOLOGY -- 48 Recognize Atypical Presentations of Acute Coronary Syndrome -- 49 Type A Behavior: Consider Aortic Dissection in Patients with Chest Pain and Ischemic Electrocardiograms -- 50 Contents Under Pressure: Aggressive Hemodynamic Management in Patients with Acute Aortic Dissection -- 51 Do Not Confuse Multifocal Atrial Tachycardia with Atrial Fibrillation -- 52 Do Not Confuse Mobitz Type I and Mobitz Type II Atrioventricular Block -- 53 Be Able to Recognize Electrocardiographic Artifact from Dysrhythmia -- 54 Management of Atrial Fibrillation: Rate Control versus Rhythm Conversion.

55 Management of Atrial Fibrillation with Rapid Ventricular Response -- 56 Atrial Fibrillation in the Wolff-Parkinson-White Syndrome -- 57 Never Mistake Ventricular Tachycardia for Supraventricular Tachycardia with Aberrant Conduction -- 58 Know the Mimics of Ventricular Tachycardia -- 59 Do Not Exclude Cardiac Causes of Chest Pain because the Patient Does Not Have Traditional Risk Factors for Acute Coronary Syndrome -- 60 Do Not Forget to Consider Nontraditional Risk Factors for Coronary Artery Disease in Patients with Chest Pain -- 61 Do Not Forget about the Non-ACS Causes of Chest Pain -- 62 Be Cautious Diagnosing "Anxiety" or "Panic Disorder" in Patients with Chest Pain and Anxiety -- 63 One and Done: Rapid Rule-Out Protocols -- 64 Beware of the "Highly Sensitive" Troponin -- 65 When Good VADs Go Bad -- 66 Don't Stress the Stress Test in Suspected ACS -- 67 Remember to Obtain a Right-Sided Electrocardiogram in a Patient with an Inferior Myocardial Infarction -- 68 Pitfalls in Hypertensive Emergencies -- 69 Know the Differential for ST-Segment Elevation: It's More Than Just Acute Coronary Syndrome -- 70 Do Not Rely on a Single ECG to Evaluate Chest Pain in the ED -- 71 Know How to Diagnose Acute MI in Patients with an LBBB or Pacemaker -- 72 Getting Ahead of Cardiogenic Pulmonary Edema: Aggressive Nitroglycerin Usage -- 73 Beyond Diuresis: Treatment Adjuncts in Cardiogenic Pulmonary Edema -- 74 Know How to Differentiate Cardiac versus Noncardiac Causes of Syncope -- 75 Pearls in Syncope ECG Interpretation -- 76 Syncope: Avoiding a Shotgun Wedding -- SECTION IV: GASTROENTEROLOGY -- 77 When an Appy Doesn't Follow the Rules -- 78 Analgesia for the Patient with Acute Abdominal Pain: Don't Delay! -- 79 Get to It Early: Sigmoid Volvulus -- 80 Cecal Volvulus: Don't Miss It! -- 81 Altered Mental Status in a Child: Don't Forget about Intussusception!.

82 Don't Miss Aortoenteric Fistula: A Rare But Life-Threatening Cause of Gastrointestinal Bleeding! -- 83 Acute Mesenteric Ischemia: A True Abdominal Catastrophe -- 84 Not All Epigastric Pain Is Benign -- 85 Don't Underestimate an Acute Variceal Hemorrhage! -- 86 Don't Be Fooled by a Subtle Presentation-SBP Can Be Deadly! -- 87 Ascending Cholangitis aka Biliary Sepsis aka "That Other Pus Under Pressure" -- 88 Acalculous Cholecystitis: No Stones, No Problems? -- 89 Anticipate Bleeding and Reverse Coagulopathies in Patients with Liver Failure -- 90 Boerhaave Syndrome: Not All Life-Threatening Chest Pain Involves the Heart and Lungs -- 91 Caustic Ingestions: Don't Make It Worse -- 92 Ingested Foreign Bodies: When to Intervene? -- 93 Severe Acute Pancreatitis Can Be Sneaky -- 94 Use Restraint When Imaging Patients with Acute Pancreatitis -- 95 The "Pain" in Chronic Pancreatitis -- 96 Abdominal Pain in Inflammatory Bowel Disease: A Flare or Emergent Complication? -- 97 Not Every Pregnant Patient with Vomiting Has Hyperemesis Gravidarum -- 98 Beware of the Patient with Painless Jaundice -- 99 ERCP Can Cause a Lot of Complications! -- 100 Don't Be Afraid to Order a CT on a Pregnant Patient If She Really Needs It -- 101 Know How to Deal with the Displaced PEG Tube -- 102 Common Pitfalls in Point of Care Ultrasound of the Gallbladder! -- SECTION V: CUTANEOUS -- 103 Don't Miss Necrotizing Fasciitis! -- 104 SJS and TEN: Are They Different? -- 105 The Spectrum of TEN -- 106 Mimics in Cellulitis -- 107 Chickenpox and Shingles: More Than Just a Rash -- 108 Erythema Nodosum, Nodules, and Hypersensitivity -- 109 Classic Is Not Always Classic: Classic Rashes -- SECTION VI: ENDOCRINE/METABOLIC -- 110 A Normal Bicarbonate Value Does Not Exclude an Acid-Base Disturbance -- 111 Don't Forget about Octreotide for Hypoglycemia -- 112 Pitfalls in the Management of DKA.

113 Do Not Rely on Orthostatic Vital Signs to Diagnose Volume Depletion -- 114 HHS: When High Sugars Have Got You Down! -- 115 Do Not Over Treat Hypo- or Hypernatremia -- 116 A 3-Pronged Approach to the Treatment of Hyperkalemia -- 117 Know How to Recognize and Treat Thyroid Storm -- 118 Understand the Role of Magnesium in the Treatment of Hypokalemia -- 119 Know How to Interpret the Venous Blood Gas -- 120 Know the Indications for Bicarbonate Therapy -- SECTION VII: ENVIRONMENT -- 121 Not So Fast! Rewarming the Cold Patient -- 122 Acclimatize or Die or Descend -- 123 Aggressive Cooling Is (Almost) Always the Correct Approach to the Critical, Environmentally Hyperthermic Patient -- 124 Smoke Inhalation: Commonly Overtreated and Undertreated Aspects -- 125 CO Poisoning: It Takes More Than O2 -- 126 A Rash That Is More Than "Just a Rash" -- 127 Diving Injuries: Don't Miss These Serious Injuries Because You Failed to Get the History! -- SECTION VIII: HEENT -- 128 Giant Cell Arteritis: Who the Heck is Horton and Why Should I Worry about His Headache? -- 129 Sight-threatening Zoster Ophthalmicus: How to Recognize and Treat -- 130 And the Eyes Have It -- 131 "Your patient has a retrobulbar hematoma. I think he's going to need a canthotomy." -- 132 Beware the Sore Throat That Kills -- 133 Consider a Deep Space Neck Infection in a Child with Fever and Neck Pain or Torticollis -- 134 Lemierre Syndrome: A Royal Pain in the Neck -- 135 Peritonsillar Abscess -- 136 Don't Misdiagnose, Overtreat, or Cause Perforation of the Tympanic Membrane -- 137 If It Ain't Cancer, Why Do I Call This Malignant Otitis Externa? -- 138 Approach to the Red Eye -- 139 Eyeing the Causes of Acute Vision Loss -- 140 Face-Eating Fungus: Rhinocerebral Mucormycosis -- 141 Digging for Gold: Some Nuggets about Epistaxis -- 142 Ludwig Angina-"The German Stranglehold".

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