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Emergency
These boxes describe management of many of the
most common emergencies in medicine
Hussien Mohammed Jumaah
CABM
Lecturer in internal medicine
Mosul College of Medicine
Thursday , 28 April , 2016
Emergency management of anaphylaxis
Clinical decisions in the critically ill
Immediate management of circulatory collapse
Immediate management of circulatory collapse'cont'd
Immediate management of severe sepsis
Management of patients on admission to ICU
Psychiatric emergencies
Management of suspected spinal cord
compression
Medical management of severe hypercalcaemia
Severe manifestations/complications of falciparum
malaria and their immediate management
Severe manifestations/complications of falciparum
malaria and their immediate management'cont'd
Severe manifestations/complications of falciparum
malaria and their immediate management'cont'd
Severe manifestations/complications of falciparum
malaria and their immediate management'cont'd
Treatment of severe hyperkalaemia
Acute myocardial infarction:
haemodynamic subsets
Clinical features of pericardial tamponade
Causes of acute valve failure
Clinical features of acute coronary syndromes
Symptoms and signs of acute limb ischaemia
Assessment and management of ‘acute on
chronic’ type II respiratory failure
Assessment and management of ‘acute on
chronic’ type II respiratory failure'cont'd
Assessment and management of ‘acute on
chronic’ type II respiratory failure'cont'd
Assessment and management of ‘acute on
chronic’ type II respiratory failure'cont'd
Immediate assessment of acute severe asthma
Indications for assisted ventilation in acute
severe asthma
Indications for referral to ITU
Management of severe hypocalcaemia
Management of adrenal crisis
Management of adrenal crisis'cont'd
Management of adrenal crisis'cont'd
Management of diabetic ketoacidosis
Management of diabetic ketoacidosis'cont'd
Management of diabetic ketoacidosis'cont'd
Management of diabetic ketoacidosis'cont'd
Management of diabetic ketoacidosis'cont'd
Emergency treatment of hypoglycaemia
Emergency management of acute non-variceal upper
gastrointestinal haemorrhage
Medical management of fulminant ulcerative colitis
Adverse prognostic criteria in acute liver failure*
Emergency management of variceal bleeding
Disseminated intravascular coagulation
Disseminated intravascular coagulation
Emergency
management
of suspected
septic arthritis
Emergency management of giant cell arteritis
• Status epilepticus
• Stroke (if thrombolysis available)
• Guillain–Barré syndrome
• Myasthenia gravis (if bulbar and/or respiratory)
• Spinal cord compression
• Subarachnoid haemorrhage
• Neuroleptic malignant syndrome
Neurological emergencies
‘Red flag’ symptoms in headache
Management of status epilepticus
Management of status epilepticus'cont'd
Management of status epilepticus'cont'd
Chemotherapy of bacterial meningitis when the
cause is known
Chemotherapy of bacterial meningitis when the
cause is known'cont'd
Treatment of pyogenic meningitis of unknown cause
Treatment of tetanus
Causes of spinal cord compression
Symptoms of spinal cord compression
Signs of spinal cord compression
Investigation of acute spinal cord syndrome
Indications for emergency CT/MRI in acute stroke
Management of acute stroke
Management of acute stroke'cont'd
Management of acute stroke'cont'd