Emergency Medicine

Editors:
Vesna Degoricija, MD PhD
Duje Rako, MD

CROATIAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION
SECTION OF MEDICAL STUDENTS

ZAGREB UNIVERSITY
SCHOOL OF MEDICINE


EUROPEAN MEDICAL STUDENTS’
ASSOCIATION (EMSA) ZAGREB
ZAGREB, CROATIA

A short review...

This is the one of the best books covering emergency medicine topics such as basic life support, shock, trauma, drugs, poisoning and antidots, immobilization, paediatric life support etc.

On more than 250 pages there is everything you need for the best possible education in emergency medicine.

In the book you can find extended abstracts of lectures, seminars and practicals written by teachers and students from Zagreb University School of Medicine, Split University School of Medicine and Osijek University School of Medicine and physicians from University Hospitals and Clinics from Zagreb and Split. Every effort has been made to ensure that instructional material contained in this book is based on sound medical practice.

The topics of the schoolbook of emergency medicine were selected as representative of the depth and breadth of current emergency medicine practice. Authors' aim was to create an innovative emergency medicine teaching program that would meet the minimum essential requirements and standards in tune with global trends in medical education, to substitute a traditional knowledge-based concept of medical education with evidence-based medicine, and to introduce problem-solving skills through problem-based learning and case based teaching of medicine.

Authors hope that they will stimulate student's critical thinking and acquisition of practical skills while reading the book and attending the practicals, as well as creating a new educational climate and culture in which all protagonists of the educational process, students and teachers alike should consider it as ethical
obligation to constantly develop their knowledge.


A case from the book:

A Woman With Palpitations and Near Syncope

BACKGROUND
A 37-year-old woman presents to the emergency department (ED) because of a persistent feeling that her heart is racing and skipping beats.
She had a similar feeling several times in the past but never for more than a few minutes and always with spontaneous recovery. This episode occurred while she was playing water polo with her community league team, and to her surprise, it did not spontaneously dissipate. She began to feel drained of her usual energy and stamina and thought she would pass out. She immediately got out of the pool and was quickly rushed to the ED... Background continues...
The patient appears pale and diaphoretic and is dyspneic and lethargic. ECG monitoring is quickly initiated (ECG 1) and reveals what looks like ventricular tachycardia at a rate of 224 beats per minute (bpm), though the rhythm is somewhat irregular.

The case story is followed by severeal questions such as ...
What is this woman's underlying disorder, and how is it treated?
Why did she appear to have ventricular tachycardia on her arrival to the ED?

And a hint...
The patient did not have ventricular tachycardia!!!

The answer is written very concise, followed by the possible theraphy...


This is a great book, a "must have"...

    * More than 250 pages written by the best Croatian teachers and physicians from University Hospitals and Clinics from Zagreb and Split...
    * More than 300 pictures, schematics, ECG...
    * The newest resuscitation algorithms...
    * Antidote indications and dosages...
    * A dozen of daily quizes and cases
      And much, much more