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Medical School for Everyone: Emergency Medicine

Series: Great Courses
4.5
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Episodes
24
Rating
TVPG
Year
2015
Language
English
Publisher
The Great Courses

About

In Dr. Benaroch's 24 lectures, experience for yourself the high-stakes drama and medical insights of life in an everyday emergency department: the most intense department in any hospital and home to the kind of split-second decision making, troubleshooting, and detective work that can make the difference between a patient's life and death.

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Episodes

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1. Triage in Emergency Medicine

30m

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Start the course learning about the first critical step of emergency care: triage. When faced with a waiting room full of patients, how does a capable emergency department doctor decide whom to treat first? What happens when a patient's condition changes? Or when more patients show up?

2. Emergency Medicine Means Thinking Fast

30m

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Dr. Benaroch takes you along with an ambulance crew to give you a three-dimensional understanding of emergency care as experienced by first responders. Topics covered in this lecture include the ABCs of a rapid scan, appropriate bystander response, and the "rule of 9" for estimating burn size.

3. Emergency Medicine Means Thinking Again

30m

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Welcome to the night shift at an emergency department, where anything can happen. Through the patient cases in this lecture, you'll get a deeper understanding of how emergency doctors think twice about a young man having a heart attack, a college student who is vomiting, and an elderly man who is having trouble walking.

Extended Details

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Artists

Roy Benarochwriter