Clinical Quiz in Emergency Medicine

by Chuen, Shek Kam; Wah, Kam Chak

• ISBN13: 9789622098640
• ISBN10: 9622098649
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-02-01
• Publisher: Hong Kong Univ Pr

Summary

Written by emergency medicine specialists in Hong Kong, this book consists of 70 real cases encountered in an emergency department. Short history, clinical pictures, ECGs, X-rays, CT scans and ultrasound images are included and clinical questions are set from the emergency medicine perspective. Detailed answers are provided with references.

Table of Contents

A 60-year-old man with severe interscapular back pain	p. 2
A 13-year-old boy with chin injury	p. 4
A 40-year-old woman with cat-bite wound	p. 7
A 12-year-old girl with left ankle sprain	p. 11
A 28-year-old man with left eye pain	p. 12
A 45-year-old man with painful swollen right thigh	p. 14
A 60-year-old woman with shortness of breath and fever	p. 16
An 18-year-old young man with shortness of breath and dizziness	p. 18
A 50-year-old man with persistent headache and dizziness	p. 20
A 25-year-old man with syncope	p. 22
A 12-year-old boy with left hip pain	p. 24
A 50-year-old man with neck injury	p. 27
A 17-year-old young man with snakebite	p. 30
A 16-year-old girl with severe vaginal bleeding	p. 32
A 16-year-old boy with left eye injury	p. 35
A 65-year-old man with severe chest pain	p. 38
A 23-year-old man with neck injury	p. 40
A 43-year-old man with painful facial rash	p. 42
An 18-year-old young man with chest pain	p. 44
A 48-year-old man with severe chest pain	p. 47
A teenage girl with rash over the lower limbs	p. 50
An 80-year-old man with right lower quadrant pain	p. 52
A 20-year-old man with palpitations	p. 54
A 6-year-old girl with diarrhoea	p. 57
An 18-year-old young woman with neck injury	p. 60
A 15-year-old girl with right elbow injury	p. 62
A 44-year-old man with head injury	p. 65
A 39-year-old woman with increasing swelling of face	p. 68
A 5-year-old boy with left facial pain	p. 70
A 42-year-old pregnant woman with repeated vomiting and dehydration	p. 72
A 50-year-old man with severe chest pain	p. 74
A 60-year-old woman with abdominal pain and vomiting	p. 76
A 5-year-old boy with high fever	p. 78
A 45-year-old motorcyclist with anterior chest wall contusion	p. 81
A 68-year-old woman with drooling of saliva and left ear pain	p. 84
A 50-year-old man with confusion	p. 87
A 37-year-old woman with per vaginal bleeding and lower abdominal pain	p. 90
A 29-year-old man with palpitations	p. 92
A 39-year-old woman who attempted suicide by hanging	p. 94
A 50-year-old woman with insomnia and headache	p. 96
A 45-year-old motorcyclist with left foot injury	p. 98
A 9-day-old neonate with left eye discharge	p. 100
A 16-year-old boy with retrosternal chest pain and dizziness	p. 102
A 38-year-old man with head injury	p. 104
A 13-year-old boy with right knee injury	p. 106
A 52-year-old man with numbness and spasm of four extremities	p. 108
An elderly woman with inability to close the mouth	p. 110
A 41-year-old woman with right hip injury	p. 112
A 55-year-old man with fever and cough	p. 115
A 62-year-old woman with dizziness and severe headache	p. 118
A 25-year-old man with chest pain	p. 120
A 48-year-old man with facial injury	p. 122
A 60-year-old man with dizziness and weakness	p. 125
An 11-year-old girl with left knee injury	p. 128
A 75-year-old man with fever, hoarseness and difficulty in swallowing	p. 130
A 60-year-old diabetic man with left hand pain and swelling	p. 133
A 19-month-old boy with drowsiness and multiple bruises	p. 134
A 21-year-old woman with severe epigastric pain	p. 136
A 58-year-old man with dyspnoea and chest tightness	p. 138
A 42-year-old woman with lower chin pain and swelling	p. 140
A 55-year-old man with left foot pain and swelling	p. 142
A 19-year-old young man with right arm injury	p. 144
A 55-year-old man with right eye injury	p. 147
A 39-year-old woman with dyspnoea	p. 150
A 23-year-old man with an electric shock	p. 152
A 40-year-old woman with persistent wound pain	p. 154
A 30-year-old woman with right-sided abdominal pain	p. 156
A 26-years-old woman with pain and swelling of left index finger	p. 158
A 40-year-old man with snake bite	p. 160
A 65-year-old man with palpitations	p. 162
Index	p. 164
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