The Chief Complaint: Emergency Medical Handbook Kindle Edition

If you're a newbie to the ER, like a resident/PA/NP/MS, this pocketbook quickly and efficiently GUIDES the thought process you should be having with a given chief complaint. It has the dx's you CANNOT MISS, the "Common things being common" dx's and outlier dx's we might forget about, but if missed the pt and you pay dearly for. BUY IT.Critique: Frier needs to periodically review the scholarly references and subsequent recommendations because it seems some date all the way back to when he was a resident in the early 2000s and I wonder if new evidence has changed the old management recommendations.

I am a PA just starting prn work in the ER (have been working in internal medicine) so I got this book as a way to know how to approach pts in the ER vs outpatient. I have been reading through this book, along w/ several others, in preparation for my shifts and this book so far has been excellent. It is very concise but appropriately detailed and easy to follow. It is on par w/ what I have been instructed to do while training for the ER as well as what I am reading in other books -VERY happy w/ this purchase as I considered multiple different books.

This book is targeted at emergency physicians, but I strongly suspect that it will be of great use to paramedics and RNs as well. As a paramedic and EMS educator, I have found the book to be an indispensable guide to those first few steps of patient care for a diverse range of complaints. The well-educated paramedic will find "The Chief Complaint" to be an invaluable reference, something to be studied in addition to protocols. It is helpful and enlightening to know what the emergency department personnel are going to do with the patient once we have handed them over, and to determine which tests and interventions could (and should) have been performed in the field. High recommended.

I found this quick reference book very helpful in my practice. I mostly enjoy the easy and concise flow charts for quick reference and there is also bulleted points with more, in-depth information about conditions if needed. My only critique is this book does not include minor conditions such as respiratory infections and dermatology conditions that are frequently seen in the ER. It does include true life-threatening conditions, however it is well known we seen non-emergencies in the ER as well, which this book does not include.

This bonk is what I needed during PA school and in my first (overwhelming and exciting) year as EM PA. I know I'll use it a lot as I transition back into EM- after being out and in critical care/pulm I need this concise guide. It leaves enough to make you want to read more but during the hectic shifts you just need the info fast so you can cya and bookmark It later for more info. The links worked well for me-I appreciate being able to see the references and see the evidence and review the articles. I think it's great that there are planned updates as the research continually changes in this field (sepsis guidelines anyone???) I have ordered the hard copy but love the kindle version because of the links. The links to FOAMeD sites are terrific. Great book- you'll appreciate all the work and flow that t has gone into it. Highly recommended. I'm a PA- but guess it would apply to interns for rotations, especially if EM is not your thing. (Btw-ha t e typing on my kindle but had to review this! Excuse the typos- it's not Dragon but worse:)

Update: got the replacement, all pages printed well. Love this book! 5 stars! This will be like my bible as a new NP! Buy it!It looks like a good book, but most pages with algorithms were printed incorrectly, all black, unreadable! Returned, waiting for replacement. 1 star for now until it is replaced with a correct one.

I've been reading iterations of this book since I was a 3rd year medical student on rotations. It is an excellent introduction to emergency medicine and primer for how to safely and efficiently approach undifferentiated patients. I would highly recommend this book to med students rotating in the ED as well as junior emergency medicine residents and residents rotating in the ED.Full disclosure: I work in the same ED as the author.

I'm surprised this isn't more popular. It is clearly intended to be a pocket reference for a beginners.This book doesn't have paragraphs, its full of algorithms the help you come up with emergent differentials for each chief complaint and how to make those branching decision points. It goes into a little more detail afterward one each big differential for about 1 page, including drug name and dosages. Haven't seen really anything like it.However, If you are advanced in your medical career, its not the book for you. And if I could see future versions of this book, I would like to see them add in a few decision rules to help with documentation/charting. I'd also like to see a few of the most commons included more so it would be more useful when taken to rotations.Overall, I like and will continue to use it.

Decent little handbook on prioritizing presentations in the ED. Builds on probabilistic thinking / thresholdmodels thinking, but doesn't explicitly tell you about this.As such, the prioritizing of the models are not always 100% logicalGood concepts and great for the clinics (as always: for european users some of the treatment content is somewhat different from what we do in Europe, and so should be applied with causion)

I bought this book about a month ago and it is one of the best investments I have made in a long time!

Very Good