Emergency medicine handbook
THECHIEFCOMPLAINT(Cases & Quizzes)
CASES
CC: Right Lower Quadrant Abdominal Pain
MS3 CORE CASE
CC: Flew off a motorcycle
TRAUMA & SHOCK
CC: It hurts under my ribs
ABDOMINAL PAIN
CC: My belly hurts. Walking makes it worse
ABDOMINAL & PELVIC PAIN
CC: I can’t feel a pulse
RESUSCITATION
CC: Left flank pain… or is it?
GENITOURINARY
Pop Quiz Hotshot
Early Pregnancy
Test your decisions on pregnancy location, ectopic pregnancy, and early pregnancy loss.
Abdominal Pain: General
Test your decisions on unstable abdominal pain, vascular emergencies, perforation, and obstruction.
Upper Abdominal Pain
Test your decisions on biliary disease, pancreatitis, peptic ulcer disease, and dangerous mimics.
Lower Abdominal Pain
Test your decisions on appendicitis, diverticulitis, IBD, GU/GYN causes, and important mimics.
Acute Scrotum
Test your decisions on acute scrotal pain, torsion, ultrasound findings, and important mimics.
Shock
Test your decisions on perfusion, shock mechanisms, resuscitation, and cardiogenic shock.
Acute Stroke
Test your decisions on stroke assessment, reperfusion, blood pressure, and TIA disposition.