REMOTE
MEDICINE
The
Field Course for Remote Medical Service
Practical Guidelines for Medical Practice
Anesthesia
for remote practice
This
guide is taken from Field Emergency Medicine and gives step-by-step
procedures for performing anesthesia in remote environments with scarce
resources. It downloads in Adobe Acrobat format (PDF extension). Due
to the size of the file, the handbook may take some time to download
depending upon the speed of your connection. If you wish to download
the free Adobe Acrobat Reader in order to view the handbook, the first
link will take you there.
Table of Contents (141
kb)
Anesthesia for
Remote Practice (4.21 mb)
Introduction
to remote medical practice
The
following link is a resource guide for health providers considering
practice in the developing world. The text is from the peer-reviewed
on-line textbook of medical care, eMedicine.com,
available as a service to communities without access to printed health
texts.
Medical practice
in the developing world
Clinical
guidelines
This
set of guides is provided as a free service to doctors and other health
practitioners in both developed and developing worlds.
Patient management
cards For doctors, residents, and students: print this
and copy it double-sided, fold into quarters to fit into an upper
shirt or lab coat pocket. An entire admission workup plus daily lab,
exam, and to do list log for a week on a single card. Also useful
for night float residents to simplify morning sign-outs, when the
card itself can be handed off to the designated admission team.
Antibiotic
guidelines (single page summary of guidelines for initial
empiric management of common infectious illnesses).
Diabetic ketoacidosis
(includes a clinical and laboratory flow sheet).
Ultrasound
(four page proposal and data collection sheet for emergency departments
establishing a bedside ultrasound program).
Chest pain
(includes standardized emergency department orders, general evidence-based
recommendations for acute diagnosis and management, and guidelines
for administration of fibrinolytic agents for myocardial infarction,
ischemic stroke, and pulmonary embolism).
Asthma
(includes standardized emergency department orders, a serial exam
flow sheet, guidelines for inpatient interventions if admission is
needed, and a patient brochure).
Pneumonia
(includes guidelines for both initial emergency department and inpatient
interventions, standardized admission orders, and guidelines for initial
antibiotic therapy).
Gastrointestinal
hemorrhage (includes guidelines for both initial emergency
department and inpatient interventions).
Hip fracture
(includes guidelines for both initial emergency department and inpatient
interventions, standardized admission orders, and a patient brochure).
