Avoiding Common Errors in the Emergency Department

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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. Michael E. Winters, Dale P. Woolridge, Evie Marcolini, Mimi Lu, and Sarah B. Dubbs have fully revised this edition offering a fresh perspective in this rapidly changing field.

• Presents hard-earned clinical wisdom in an informal, easy-to-read style that focuses on uncommonly taught pearls, pitfalls, and misconceptions in every area of emergency medicine
• Contains extensive revisions throughout, including new topics, updated content, new expert contributors, a newly streamlined organization, and more
• Includes new and revised content on COVID-19, chest pain management, sepsis, stroke, anaphylaxis and angioedema, pneumonia, acute heart failure, and more
• Ideal for emergency medicine physicians, residents, and attendings; emergency nurse practitioners; physician associates who practice in the ED; and primary care physicians in urgent care centers

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Contributor: Michael E. Winters (Edited by), Dale P. Woolridge (Edited by), Evie Marcolini (Edited by), Mimi Lu (Edited by)

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