Now What? Emergency Medicine Patient Encounters/

Now What? Emergency Medicine Patient Encounters provides practical, how-to guidance for medical students approaching patients for the first time in a new emergency medicine rotation. This pocket-sized book discusses patient care from the point of picking up the chart and reviewing the triage form, through walking into the room and assessing the patients stability. The book identifies pertinent positives, negatives, and alert conditions in the history and physical examination; provides guidance on working up the patient, including appropriate diagnostic studies and procedures; explains the rationale behind clinical decision making; and provides diagnosis-based, evidence-based, high-yield, peer-reviewed journal references.