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Emergency medicine is the kind of stuff you will see in A&E. The key issues to know here are [[medical emergencies]], and [[#Physical Injury|trauma]]. Everything else is probably just common sense. | Emergency medicine is the kind of stuff you will see in A&E. The key issues to know here are [[medical emergencies]], and [[#Physical Injury|trauma]]. Everything else is probably just common sense. | ||
Revision as of 18:05, 24 January 2011
Emergency medicine is the kind of stuff you will see in A&E. The key issues to know here are medical emergencies, and trauma. Everything else is probably just common sense.
Medical Emergencies
There is a whole page on medical emergencies that you should definitely know about.
Common ones in A&E are chest pain is important. So is ECG
Physical Injury
It's quite important to learn about physical injury, as it is a common appearance in A & E.
It is split into four areas: fractures, lacerations, burns and major injuries. In the picture on the left, Raj has been bludgeoned in the groin, lacerated repeatedly with a small, blunt knife, and then burnt in a big fire, in a coming-of-age ceremony as part of his religion, "Atheism".
Casualty
If you watch Casualty, you will have a very realistic view of how emergency medicine is conducted in real hospitals. Realistic, apart from the fact that all the nurses and doctors do not actually have affairs with each other, with hospital administrators and with patients on a daily basis, managing to fit that in between their casual sex in elevators, near constant drug abuse, and the fact that they even have the energy after 12 hour shifts to go out drinking all night and arrive back at work still drunk the next day.
And no one is as nice as Charlie in real life.