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ability to perform basic and life-saving procedures in a logical, controlled, and efficient manner. The inability to perform these procedures will not only affect the patient's care directly, it will also affect the flow of the ED and the care of patients not yet seen.
The Color Atlas of Emergency Department Procedures is a concise guide to most ED procedures. In the preface, the author provides an important disclaimer that encourages the reader to review a more comprehensive text such as Roberts and Hedges' Clinical Procedures in Emergency Medicine. 1 The Color Atlas of Emergency Department Procedures is just a featherweight of 205 pages and is composed mostly of color drawings and medical photographs. The contents include simple orthopedic procedures (eg, arthrocentesis of the knee, ankle, and elbow), limb-saving procedures (eg, compartment pressure measurement), venous access techniques (eg, central venous catheters, venous cutdown), thoracotomy and chest tubes (as well as thoracentesis and pericardiocentesis), wound closure techniques, and common nerve blocks. The text also includes rare procedures such as suprapubic bladder aspiration and lateral canthotomy, to name a few.
Each procedure begins with basic descriptions, indications, contraindications, complications, and equipment (which include photographs). This is followed by a step-by-step guide of the procedure. This guide includes color drawings and medical photographs of human and animal subjects. A brief description describing the actions of the procedure is included for each step of the procedure.
The strengths of this text are the ability of the color drawings and photographs to guide the reader through the procedure. Performing procedures is a skill dependent on anatomic landmarks, visualization, and stepwise controlled movements.
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