Raisonnement clinique en médecine d'urgence, 1e

Clinical reasoning in emergency medicine

Maurice Raphaël, Frederic Thys
Elsevier
344 pages
ISBN: 9782294782336
November 2025

Addressing issues encountered by practitioners in their daily work, the "Elsevier Practical" collection provides precise, readily accessible clinical answers. These books are designed to support clinical practice. In the emergency department, physicians frequently face the unpredictable: vague symptoms, incomplete data, time pressure, anxious patients, and a constant flow of patients. In this context, clinical reasoning is not an intellectual luxury, but a crucial tool that guides practitioners in making decisions, or not making them. Reasoning quickly, but correctly. The main challenge is to identify severity before probability, to avoid missing a life-threatening emergency, without succumbing to the temptation of ordering numerous unnecessary tests that clog the services. It also means mastering the shortcuts, those cognitive shortcuts that sometimes lead us astray in good faith. This is the delicate balance that this book proposes to explore. Born from reflection, experience, and shared perspectives, this book goes beyond simply stating algorithms. It illuminates the thought processes, the cognitive biases that threaten clarity of judgment, and the strategies that ensure safe action.