- List of emergency medicine topics
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Emergency medicine encompasses a large scope of practice. It concentrates on potentially life or limb threatening illnesses and an understanding common conditions.
Contents
Critical care
- Airway management
- Mechanical ventilation
- Shock
- Resuscitation
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- Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS)
- Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS)
- Advanced Trauma Life Support(ATLS)
Presentations
- Fever
- Weakness
- Dizziness
- Vertigo
- Confusion
- Altered level of consciousness
- Coma
- Seizure
- Headache
- Dyspnea
- Chest pain
- Syncope
- Nausea and vomiting
- Abdominal pain
- Gastrointestinal bleeding
- Diarrhea
- Constipation
- Jaundice
- Pelvic pain
- Testicular pain
- Vaginal bleeding
- Back pain
- Cyanosis
- Sore throat
- Hemoptysis
Trauma
- Advanced Trauma Life Support
- ABC (medicine)
- Pneumothorax
- Pericardial tamponade
- Polytrauma
- Injury prevention
- Head injury
- Facial trauma
- Spinal injury
- Chest trauma
- Abdominal trauma
- Genitourinary trauma
- Peripheral vascular injury
- Bone fracture
- Wound
- Bite
- Foreign body
- Venomous injury
- Burn
- Forensic science
- Child abuse
- Sexual assault
- Domestic abuse
Medicine and surgery
Cardiac
- Acute coronary syndrome
- Dysrhythmia
- Heart failure
- Pericarditis
- Myocarditis
- Infectious endocarditis
- Valvular heart disease
Dermatologic
- Acute urticaria
- Angioedema
- Erythema multiforme major
- Kasabach–Merritt syndrome
Endocrine
- Acid base disorder
- Diabetes mellitus
- Rhabdomyolysis
- Thyroid storm
Gastrointestinal
- Biliary colic
- Cholecystitis
- Small bowel obstruction
- Appendicitis
- Gastroenteritis
Genitourinary
- Renal failure
- Sexually transmitted diseases
Hematology
Infectious disease
Inflammatory
Neurology
- Stroke
- Seizures
- Headache
- Delirium
- Dementia
- Meningitis
Psychiatric
- Thought disorder
- Mood disorder
- Anxiety
- Somatoform disorder
- Factitious disorder
- Malingering
- Suicide
- Excited delirium
- Psychomotor agitation
Pulmonary
- Asthma
- Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
- Upper respiratory infection
- Pneumonia
- Pleurisy
Vascular
Environment and Toxicology
- Environmental medicine
- Frostbite
- Accidental hypothermia
- Heat illness
- Electrical and lightning injuries
- Scuba diving hazards and dysbarism
- High altitude medicine
- Travel medicine
- Drowning
- Radiation injuries
- Toxicology
- Overdose
- Acetaminophen overdose
- Aspirin overdose and other NSAIDs
- Anticholinergics
- Antidepressants
- Cardiovascular drugs (Beta blockers, Calcium channel blockers)
- Caustics
- Sympathomimetics and cocaine
- Toxic alcohols (Methanol, Ethylene glycol)
- Hallucinogens
- Heavy metals
- Hydrocarbons
- Inhaled toxins
- Lithium
- Antipsychotics
- Opioids
- Pesticides
- Plants, mushrooms, herbal medications
- Sedative hypnotics
Pediatrics
Other
- Alcohol abuse
- Substance abuse
- Pain management
- Procedural sedation
- Emergency medical services
- Disaster preparedness
- Evidence based medicine
- Emergency ultrasound
- End-of-life care
Reference
Marx, John (2010). Rosen's emergency medicine: concepts and clinical practice 7th edition. Philadelphia, PA: Mosby/Elsevier. ISBN 9780323054720.
External links
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