Pocket Emergency Medicine (Pocket Notebook Series) Ring-bound – 1 Oct. 2010

It's a great resource to have hidden away at the nursing station! It fits in a scrub pocket, but it's a tad bulky. Quick, to the point, a way to make sure your differential is broad enough and that you've asked all the pertinent questions and ordered appropriate tests BEFORE you review with you staff. Recommended!

The old reviews about this book being outdated are not true anymore. This newer version works great in the ED. I'm on my ED rotation and the benefits of it are that its broken down by Chief Complaint, rather than disease (like the Pocket Medicine version). This helps give you the work up, differential, treatment and dispo. Great for a quick reference before going into a room or before presenting to the residents and attendings.

This guide (Pocket Emergency Medicine 2nd edition) does not include as many references as the famous Pocket Medicine 4th edition, but as a fourth-year medical student interested in pursuing a career in academic emergency medicine, I'm impressed by its breadth and detail. It describes workups and differential diagnoses by presenting complaint, but each condition is indexed, so if you have a patient with a specific disease process (von Willebrand's Disease or nephrolithiasis, for example), you can find the disease in the index and then see the specific workup, management, and suggested disposition for that patient. Describes ED-specific management (eg., what to do in the initial hour of presentation) more than longitudinal management (Pocket Medicine is better for longitudinal management). Covers a huge number of complaints/conditions (it's slightly thicker than Pocket Medicine 4th edition) and contains a short section about various procedures (paracentesis, tube thoracostomy, central line placement, I&D, etc.) that are helpful refreshers. There are many citations, but more would be appreciated.To clarify Pocket Medicine vs. Pocket Emergency Medicine, Pocket Medicine is not as easy to use in the ER because it's divided by diagnosis rather than by presenting symptoms. Many patients are undifferentiated in the ER, so it's more important to know how to work them up, and Pocket Emergency Medicine is much easier to use for undifferentiated patients because it's organized by symptoms rather than diagnoses.Overall, not quite as polished as Pocket Medicine 4th edition (there are a few typos and abbreviations that aren't defined), but better than Pocket Medicine for the emergency department workup and management of patients. I definitely recommend this book as the only guide you'll need to keep in your white coat pocket on the emergency medicine clerkship (it's helpful to have a separate drug reference like Epocrates though). I will probably keep it in my pocket as a resident as well.

This book will make you look like the star of the ED. Preps you for any pimping and helps you make plans quickly. I wouldn't work in the ED without it.

pretty simplistic, with very little references or images - too dumbed down, needs to be more like the green version