Prepare for Emergency room with confidence

What your ER 90-day path covers

• ✓ESI triage: sorting the undifferentiated patient
• ✓The primary and secondary survey in the undifferentiated patient
• ✓Reassessment, waiting room risk and departmental crowding
• ✓Airway assessment and rapid sequence intubation
• ✓Cardiac arrest, resuscitation quality and post-ROSC care
• ✓Shock: recognition, classification and early resuscitation
• ✓Chest pain and acute coronary syndrome risk stratification
• ✓STEMI recognition, activation and reperfusion
• ✓Dysrhythmias: recognition and emergency management
• ✓Heart failure, hypertensive crisis and vascular emergencies
• ✓Asthma and COPD exacerbation in the emergency department
• ✓Pulmonary embolism, pneumonia and pleural emergencies
• ✓Acute respiratory failure and noninvasive ventilation
• ✓Acute stroke: recognition, imaging and reperfusion
• ✓Seizure and status epilepticus
• ✓Altered mental status, headache and central nervous system infection
• ✓Sepsis and septic shock in the emergency department
• ✓Diabetic and endocrine emergencies
• ✓Electrolyte and renal emergencies
• ✓Acute abdomen and gastrointestinal bleeding
• ✓Genitourinary emergencies
• ✓Obstetric and gynecologic emergencies
• ✓Trauma resuscitation and the injured patient
• ✓Head and spinal cord injury
• ✓Chest and abdominal trauma
• ✓Hemorrhage control and massive transfusion
• ✓Fractures, dislocations and compartment syndrome
• ✓Wound assessment, closure and infection prevention
• ✓Ocular, dental and maxillofacial emergencies
• ✓Toxicologic assessment and the toxidromes
• ✓Common overdoses and their antidotes
• ✓Environmental emergencies: temperature, envenomation and drowning
• ✓Behavioral emergencies, agitation and restraint
• ✓Suicide risk assessment and psychiatric disposition
• ✓Communicable disease recognition and isolation
• ✓Occupational exposure and staff protection
• ✓Resuscitation and vasoactive pharmacology
• ✓Analgesia, sedation and procedural sedation safety
• ✓Forensic care, violence and mandatory reporting
• ✓EMTALA, consent, capacity and documentation
• ✓Disaster preparedness and mass casualty triage

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