Using an easy-to-read style, Avoiding Common Errors in the Emergency Department, Third Edition, discusses 365 topics in which errors are frequently committed in the practice of emergency medicine. The authors give practical, easy-to-remember key points for avoiding these pitfalls. Chapters are brief, evidence-based, and easy-to-read immediately before the start of a shift, used for quick reference during a shift, or read daily over the course of one year for personal growth and review. Drs...

This issue of Physician Assistant Clinics, guest edited by Fred Wu and Dr. Michael E. Winters, is devoted to Emergency Medicine. Articles in this outstanding issue include: Anaphylaxis; Back Pain Emergencies; Lethal Rashes; Pregnancy Disasters in the First Trimester; Current Concepts in the Evaluation of the Febrile Child; Skin and Soft Tissue Infections; Pitfalls in Wound Management; Ocular Emergencies; Deadly Drug Ingestions; Low Risk Chest Pain; Headache Mistakes You Don't Want to Make;...

This issue of Emergency Medicine Clinics, guest edited by Mike Winters and Susan R. Wilcox, focuses on Emergency Department Resuscitation. This issue is one of four selected each year by series Consulting Editor, Dr. Amal Mattu. Topics include: Mindset of the Resuscitationist; Updates in Cardiac Arrest Resuscitation; Post-Arrest Interventions That Save Lives; Current Concepts and Controversies in Fluid Resuscitation; Emergency Transfusions; Updates in Sepsis Resuscitation; Pediatric Cardia...

Drs. John C. Perkins and Michael E. Winters have assembled an expert team of authors on the topic of Sepsis in the Emergency Department. Article topics include: Defining and Diagnosing Sepsis; Appropriate Antibiotic Therapy; Severe Sepsis Resuscitation in Resource Limited Settings; Source Control in Severe Sepsis; Considerations in Special Populations with Severe Sepsis; Pediatric Severe Sepsis Resuscitation; The New Usual Care; Prehospital Sepsis Care; Endpoints of Sepsis Resuscitation; P...

A Crash Course in Critical Care!Stabilize, treat, and save your sickest patients – in the ED or the field – with ACEP’s ultimate resuscitation guide. Packed with succinct evidence-based chapters written by the nation’s foremost authorities.The second edition emphasizes:ECMO, sepsis, neuro, critical care, pulmonary hypertension, crashing obese patient, neonatalThe addition of many new flow diagrams and diagnostic and ...

A Crash Course in Critical Care!Stabilize, treat, and save your sickest patients – in the ED or the field – with ACEP’s ultimate resuscitation guide. Packed with succinct evidence-based chapters written by the nation’s foremost authorities.The second edition emphasizes:ECMO, sepsis, neuro, critical care, pulmonary hypertension, crashing obese patient, neonatalThe addition of many new flow diagrams and diagnostic and ...

Emergency medicine attendings who wish to hone their teaching skills can find a number of books on educational strategies written by physicians from other disciplines. However, until the publication of the first edition of this book, they did not have access to a text written by emergency medicine physicians on methods of teaching that are directly applicable to teaching EM. This book was compiled to meet that need.Following the introductory section, which provides important backgr...

An innovative guide to the practice of pelvic exenterative surgery for the management of advanced pelvic neoplasmsExenterative surgery plays an important role in the management of advanced pelvic cancer. However, while a large body of evidence regarding outcomes following pelvic exenteration now exists, practical strategies and management options remain unclear. *Surgical Management of Advanced Pelvic Cancer *addresses this problem by assembling world-leaders in th...

This accessible book introduces the key concepts and theoretical developments of queer criminology and explains what they mean for modern criminal justice frameworks and practitioners.The book sets out experiences of the LGBTQ+ population as victims, offenders and professionals in legal systems in the US and internationally and explores what they mean for elements of those systems including police, courts, corrections and victims’ services. It is both a useful reference point for a...

The Catholic Dogma is a rigorous exposition of the traditional teaching that salvation is inseparable from the Catholic Church, presented through Scripture, patristic authority, conciliar definitions, and theological reasoning. Written in the assertive apologetic style characteristic of nineteenth-century Catholic controversy, the book seeks less to speculate than to clarify doctrine against indifference, liberal religion, and Protestant objections. Its prose is direct, catechetical, and p...

This edited volume examines how and where gay men of color find “home” and what kind of home they find, how they make sense of race and sexuality, and how their experiences reflect what it means to be “raced” and “sexed” in America. The contributors argue both racially and sexually marginalized groups all confront levels of racism and heterosexism that is practiced by the larger ethnic and sexual communities that use white heterosexuality as the “norm” to which all others are compared. The...

The A List edition of Michael Winter’s brilliant fictional memoir, This All Happened depicts one man’s descent from love to fury over a calendar year. Featuring an introduction by Lisa Moore.In this journal-a-clef, we are exposed to the kernel of truth that exists in each day. Told from the viewpoint of Gabriel English, This All Happened opens windows onto a richly textured, fast-paced filmic compilation of daily vignettes over one year. Gabriel’s promises and actions earl...