Emergency!: Touch-and-Feel Book (Awesome Engines)

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Given the rapid dissemination of information through the internet, in policy guidelines, and from collaboration in practice, the question can be asked if Emergency Medicine books even relevant anymore? Old timers will remember traveling down (often in the basement) to the local academic or hospital library to research answers using a card catalog and dusty tomes with small print in them. While the the days of going to the library and digging through a giant ancient text are probably gone (except for in the most esoteric of specialties), there is a stabilizing role played by Emergency Medicine books in creating a foundation of knowledge. Death is a guillotine blade hanging over our heads, reminding us every second of every day that this life we treasure so much is no more important to the universe than those of the 200,000 insects each of us kills with the front of our car every year.

While some Emergency Medicine books (particularly larger volumes like Rosen’s) incorporate multiple teaching strategies in their chapters to convey their information, most books use just one approach. We organize Emergency Medicine books into 3 teaching approaches: disease-focused, chief complaint, and question and answer. Let’s take a closer look. Designed for diverse applications including Private Hospital Control teams, Incident Commanders, Coast Guard, Accident Investigators (CAA and similar) and Local Authority Emergency Planners. The principal authors and editors of the book help give you a sense of whether the contributors to the book practice in academic or community settings (or both). While academic contributors are typically current on recommended best practices in Emergency Medicine, community Emergency Medicine contributors sometimes provide gritty, street-level insights on how theoretical Emergency Medicine is applied in community-oriented situations. With all the Emergency Medicine texts out there, stopping and asking yourself why you are buying the book in the first place may help filter the signal from the noise. Realistically, most books have so much content that it takes weeks to months to consume it all, reason through algorithms and diagnostic approaches, and achieve any meaningful comprehension. As a result, taking a highly focused approach to committing to one or a few Emergency Medicine books for a period of time is usually the best approach.Designed for any collaborative decision making group formed to handle an emergency, e.g. Chief Executives at NHS Gold / STAC level, Military decision makers, Accident Investigators, Local Authority decision planners. His latest book, The Truth: An Uncomfortable Book About Relationships, was released on October 13. The review in Grantland described it as follows: Strauss has the ability to make non-fiction look like fiction. What an amazing storyteller, able to combine education and entertainment in such a valuable way. Nature knows no tragedies or catastrophes. It knows no good or evil. It knows only creation and destruction. And one can never truly be happy and free, in the way we were as children before learning of our mortality, without At some point confronting our destruction. And all we can ask for, all we can hope for, all we can beseech God for, is to win a few battles in a war we will ultimately lose."

Neil Strauss is probably best known for writing 'The Game', but this is the book that comes up in conversations rather frequently for me. With the tagline “This book will save your life”, the very least it will do is get you thinking how to better prepare yourself against a statistically probable premature death during a catastrophe of some kind. A tough look at survivability during breakdowns of civility and society, this book opens your eyes to just how easily things might fall apart at any given time. The vast majority of us won’t be ready or equipped to handle a world gone wrong, but Strauss aims to change that. The things I learned from this book I still recount to others today. On every highway, there's a drunk driver hurtling at 80 miles an hour in two tons of steel. In every neighborhood, there's a thief armed with a deadly weapon. In every city, there's a terrorist with a bloody agenda. In every nuclear country, there's a government employee sitting in front of a button. In every cell in our body, there's the potential to mutate into cancer. They are all trying to kill us. And they don't even know us. They don't care that if they succeed, we will never know what tomorrow holds for us. Sometimes, you find it easier to master a subject when you work your way through from the “wrongs” to the “rights”. That’s the exact approach adopted in Avoiding Common Errors in the Emergency Department, which discusses over 360 errors commonly made in the emergency room. More importantly, the book gives practical and easy-to-recall tips on how to avoid these common mistakes.

Curriculum

The large body of knowledge covered by Emergency Medicine is daunting, particularly when starting out as a student. For students interested in specializing in the field of Emergency Medicine, consider Rosen’s Emergency Medicine as your core textbook. While in the Emergency Department, Tintinalli’s Emergency Medicine Manual, while slightly large, will keep you on your toes. We asked ourselves these questions to help us filter all of the options out there before spending our hard earned money buying:1. Who are the principal authors and editors? Minor Emergencies: Expert Consult is a relatively new addition to the slowly changing Emergency Medicine book market. Minor Emergencies covers a hundreds of minor disease presentations in a compact manner. Minor Emergencies utilizes outlines, illustrations and bullet points to cover material and pairs content with commentary using evidence-based medicine. Useful before or during an ED shift, Minor Emergencies is a concise refresher for relevant details related to minor care. Some might argue that this text has even more application in less acute settings such as an urgent care or clinic. The Emergency-Preparedness Myths That Can Kill You -- A list of the top ten myths of survival that are dangerous and could potentially harm you. These myths were extremely helpful and informative, and I found that I didn't know a lot of the information included in this section. This section includes both the myth and the correct information that will help you in the event you encounter the scenario described in the myth.