(Part 2) Best emergency medicine books according to redditors
We found 43 Reddit comments discussing the best emergency medicine books. We ranked the 25 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the products ranked 21-40. You can also go back to the previous section.
If you move the decimal over. This is about 1,000 in books...
(If I had to pick a few for 100 bucks: encyclopedia of country living, survival medicine, wilderness medicine, ball preservation, art of fermentation, a few mushroom and foraging books.)
Medical:
Where there is no doctor
Where there is no dentist
Emergency War Surgery
The survival medicine handbook
Auerbach’s Wilderness Medicine
Special Operations Medical Handbook
Food Production
Mini Farming
encyclopedia of country living
square foot gardening
Seed Saving
Storey’s Raising Rabbits
Meat Rabbits
Aquaponics Gardening: Step By Step
Storey’s Chicken Book
Storey Dairy Goat
Storey Meat Goat
Storey Ducks
Storey’s Bees
Beekeepers Bible
bio-integrated farm
soil and water engineering
Organic Mushroom Farming and Mycoremediation
Food Preservation and Cooking
Steve Rinella’s Large Game Processing
Steve Rinella’s Small Game
Ball Home Preservation
Charcuterie
Root Cellaring
Art of Natural Cheesemaking
Mastering Artesian Cheese Making
American Farmstead Cheesemaking
Joe Beef: Surviving Apocalypse
Wild Fermentation
Art of Fermentation
Nose to Tail
Artisan Sourdough
Designing Great Beers
The Joy of Home Distilling
Foraging
Southeast Foraging
Boletes
Mushrooms of Carolinas
Mushrooms of Southeastern United States
Mushrooms of the Gulf Coast
Tech
farm and workshop Welding
ultimate guide: plumbing
ultimate guide: wiring
ultimate guide: home repair
off grid solar
Woodworking
Timberframe Construction
Basic Lathework
How to Run A Lathe
Backyard Foundry
Sand Casting
Practical Casting
The Complete Metalsmith
Gears and Cutting Gears
Hardening Tempering and Heat Treatment
Machinery’s Handbook
How to Diagnose and Fix Everything Electronic
Electronics For Inventors
Basic Science
Chemistry
Organic Chem
Understanding Basic Chemistry Through Problem Solving
Ham Radio
AARL Antenna Book
General Class Manual
Tech Class Manual
MISC
Ray Mears Essential Bushcraft
Contact!
Nuclear War Survival Skills
The Knowledge: How to rebuild civilization in the aftermath of a cataclysm
How about this: read the first few chapters of literally ANY EMS textbook. Ours was called "Emergency Care and Transportation of the Sick and Injured." It's also nicknamed "The Orange Book." It describes in detail the importance of scene safety above anything else and also provides sources. Scene safety is literally the first part of any patient assessment. Check out pt assessment sheets for the psychomotor exam on the National Registry of Emergy Medical Technicians website.
Here is the textbook on amazon, but I'm sure there's a pdf of it floating around somewhere so you wouldn't have to buy a $200 book. You might check scribd. https://www.amazon.com/Emergency-Care-Transportation-Injured-Orange/dp/128410690X/ref=dp_ob_title_bk
For a course - try to find an Advanced Hazmat Life Support course.
For a text - the one you want is Goldfranks Toxilogic Emergencies.
I have quite a few suggestions.
Specifically for nurses:
The following books are more for med students and MD's but I believe as nurses we need to understand rationales behind what MD's do, so these are good references:
Miscellaneous books:
Also consider subscribing to some journals. I'm subscribed to a few of them.
I'm an ER medicine nerd, so I love reading this stuff but by no means do you need to have all these books. I just enjoy learning as much as I can about EM.
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Battlefield and Disaster Nursing Pocket Guide (Spiral-bound)
https://www.amazon.com/Battlefield-Disaster-Nursing-Pocket-Guide/dp/0763753041
Looks like a really good book. Printed on waterproof and tear proof plastic.
I do not have a copy yet - just read the TOC online.
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Austerenurse
I have used this book overseas. Good publication. My only complaint is that there is no meaningful table of contents or more importantly an index. It is hard to find stuff in this 300 page, packed full of goodness, publication.
Includes all the stuff you would expect to find in a pocket guide with this title. Also has some other notables:
Adult Lund-Browder TBSA chart along with excellent guidelines on burn care.
Sizable section on cardiac issues including sample rhythms.
Good section on hemodynamic monitoring and intra-cranial monitoring especially if you are not an ICU type.
Good section on how to rig up an intra-abdominal pressure monitor.
Good section on enteral feedings.
Heat index and wind chill charts.
ASIA - Standard Neurological Classification of Spinal Cord Injury worksheet.
DVBIC Traumatic Brain Injury Scoring Tool / MACE.
Snellen Chart.
Pediatric Dosing and equipment selection guidelines.
Good guidelines on management of head trauma.
Good section on basic use of ventilators.
Good section on dressing amputations.
Good section on using topical negative pressure therapy (Wound Vac)
Good section on blood product administration.
Good section on glycemic control.
Good section on IO devices.
Good section on pain management.
It is not the be all and end all of references, but it is not a bad publication at all and worth taking if you are going to have to provide in-patient care for casualties in a disaster or war zone.
AN