Asynchronous Learning: Environmental Emergencies

NON-FOAM: Environmental Emergencies

Tintinalli’s Emergency Medicine: A Comprehensive Study Guide, 8e:

• Section 16: Environmental Injuries

Rosen’s Emergency Medicine, Eighth Edition:

• Chapter 139: Frostbite
• Chapter 140: Accidental Hypothermia
• Chapter 141: Heat Illness
• Chapter 142: Electrical and Lightning Injuries
• Chapter 143: Scuba Diving and Dysbarism
• Chapter 144: High-Altitude Medicine
• Chapter 145: Drowning
• Chapter 146: Radiation Injuries

EBMedicine.net

• Mammalian Bites In The Emergency Department: Recommendations For Wound Closure, Antibiotics, And Postexposure Prophylaxis
• Evidence-Based Management Of Accidental Hypothermia In The Emergency Department
• Heat Illness In The Emergency Department: Keeping Your Cool
• Pediatric Envenomations: Don’t Get Bitten By An Unclear Plan Of Care (PEM)
• An Evidence-Based Approach To Electrical Injuries In Children (PEM)
• An Evidence-Based Approach To Hyperthermia And Other Heat-Related Emergencies (PEM)
• Hymenoptera Envenomation Bees, Wasps, And Ants (PEM)
• Bites and Stings – Snakes, Spiders, and Scorpions in the United States (PEM)
• Altitude Illness: Strategies In Prevention, Identification, And Treatment
• Diagnosis And Management Of North American Snake And Scorpion Envenomations

FOAM: Environmental Emergencies

Bites and Envenomation:

1. emDocs: Management of Venomous Snake Bites in North America
2. R.E.B.E.L. EM: Medical Myths in the Management of Dog Bites

Dysbarism:

1. ICN: Arora on Dysbarism

Electrical Injury:

1. CORE EM: Electrical and Lightning Injuries
2. LITFL: Lightning Injury

High-altitude Illness:

1. emDocs: High Altitude Pulmonary Edema: Diagnosis, Management, and Preventive Strategies

Submersion Incidents:

1. EM Blog Mayo Clinic: Drowning

Temperature-related Illness:

1. ALiEM: Evaluation and Management of Heat Stroke
2. emDocs: Hypothermia and Drowning Pearls

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