Anyone who has worked with me or attended one of my classes knows how much I like references in the field. Here’s a list of what I’ve got.
If I’m going super light I will at least have my iPhone with the references listed below and my diagnostics kit with these laminated cards. I will likely also have the College of Remote and Offshore Medicine Field Guide with me. As of June 2018 the first edition of the field guide is sold out, but the second edition should be released later in 2018.
If I have a little more space I’ll add the following (in this order) Bate’s Pocket Guide, In a Page Emergency Medicine, Ortho Notes: Clinical Exam Pocket Guide, ATP Handbook.
The electronic resources I bring with me are:
iPhone 7 128gb
Apps:
SOF Medical Handbook
Sanford Guide
Safedose
PediSafe
IDdx
MediCode (BLS, ACLS, PALS)
EyeManual
FP Notebook (Family Practice)
MyATLS
Deployed Medicine
MD Calc
MSF Medical Guidelines
iBooks with the following:
CRO Medical Gear Complete Guide to Trauma Pharmacology (Cromedicalgear.com)
CRO Medical Gear Whole Blood Transfusions Guide (Cromedicalgear.com)
Advanced Tactical Paramedic Protocols Handbook (“ATP Handbook”)
TCCC Quick Reference Guide (CoTCCC.org)
Refugee Health: An Approach to Emergency Situations (Medecins Sans Frontieres [MSF] aka Doctors without Borders)
Antibiotics & Common Infections RxFiles.ca (sometimes also printed/laminated and kept with meds box)
iPad Mini 2 Wifi and Cell 128gb:
Documents app (allows for storage of videos plus ebooks) containing the following.
First Line Folder:
ATP 9th Edition (intentional redundancy)
Bates Guide to Physical Exam
Rosen and Barkin’s 5 Minute Emergency Medicine Consult
TCCC Quick Reference Guide (intentional redundancy) Free
Tintinalli’s Emergency Medicine Textbook
CRO Medical Gear Complete Guide to Trauma Pharmacology (Cromedicalgear.com)
CRO Medical Gear Whole Blood Transfusions Guide (Cromedicalgear.com)
Ophthalmic Emergencies Visual Guide (Free PDF)
Prolonged Field Care Folder (ProlongedFieldCare.org)
Clinical Practice Guidelines
Telemed Script
Medications Cheat Sheet
10 Essential Capabilities
MSMAID Reference
PJ Med References: (PJMed.com)
MARCH PAWS MCI Pearls
PJ Neuro Exam
Anatomy Drill
Wilderness Medical Society Practice Guide:
All guidelines from https://wms.org/research/guidelines
References (most of these are physician level textbooks used for situations which are not time sensitive, also used for refreshing knowledge and research in austere environment, below are selected titles).
Oxford Handbook of Clinical Pharmacy
ABC of Dermatology
Adult Emergency Medicine at a Glance
Anatomy and Physiology (free textbook from Open Stax)
Atlas of Clinical Diagnosis
Chemical Warfare Agents: Chemistry. Pharmacology, Toxicology, and Theraputics
Combat Casualty Care: Lessons Learned from OEF and OIF
Emergency Dermatology Second Edition Ronni Wolf, MD
Emergency War Surgery
Essentials of Skin Laceration Repair – American Family Physician (7 page reference)
War Surgery: Working with Limited Resources in Armed Conflict and other Situations of Violence – International Committee of the Red Cross
PDF of the slides from the Walter Reed Operational Clinical Infectious Disease Course (OCID) – tropical medicine info (Free)
If working in an environment with specific, unusual hazards (e.g. tropical environment resulting in tropical diseases) consider having additional references that go with that environment