Overview
Main description
The essential emergency medicine reference! Covers the gamut of emergency medicine practice in brief, clinically focused chapters. New to this edition are chapters on bioterroism and weapons of mass destruction, pharmacology of antimicrobials, antifungals, and antivirals, principles of drug interactions, endocarditis, and abdominal and pelvic pain in the non-pregnant patient. Pharmacologic considerations, tables of vital differential diagnoses, and observation criteria throughout are new features reflecting developments in this dynamic specialty.
"considered by most in the discipline to be a bible of emergency medicine"
--Journal of Family Medicine, review of fourth edition.
ENDORSED BY THE AMERICAN COLLEGE OF EMERGENCY PHYSICIANS
Table of contents
Table of Contents: SECTION ONE: PREHOSPITAL CARESECTION TWO: DISASTER PREPAREDNESSSECTION THREE: RESUSCITATIVE PROBLEMS & TECHNIQUESSECTION FOUR: SHOCK SECTION FIVE: ANALGESIA, ANESTHESIA, AND SEDATIONSECTION SIX: EMERGENCY WOUND MANAGEMENT SECTION SEVEN: CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES SECTION EIGHT: PULMONARY EMERGENCIESSECTION NINE: GASTROINTESTINAL EMERGENCIESSECTION TEN: RENAL AND GENITOURINARY DISORDERSSECTION ELEVEN: GYNECOLOGY AND OBSTETRICS SECTION TWELVE: PEDIATRICS SECTION THIRTEEN: INFECTIOUS DISEASES SECTION FOURTEEN: TOXICOLOGY AND PHARMACOLOGY SECTION FIFTEEN: ENVIRONMENTAL INJURIES SECTION SIXTEEN: EMERGENCY MEDICINE IN UNIQUE ENVIRONMENTS SECTION SEVENTEEN: ENDOCRINE EMERGENCIES SECTION EIGHTEEN: HEMATOLOGIC AND ONCOLOGIC EMERGENCIESSECTION NINETEEN: NEUROLOGY SECTION TWENTY: EYE, EAR, NOSE, THROAT, AND ORAL SURGERY SECTION TWENTY-ONE: DISORDERS OF THE SKIN SECTION TWENTY-TWO: TRAUMA SECTION TWENTY-THREE: INJURIES TO THE BONES, JOINTS, AND SOFT TISSUE SECTION TWENTY-FOUR: NONTRAUMATIC MUSCULOSKELETAL DISORDERS SECTION TWENTY-FIVE: PSYCHOSOCIAL DISORDERS SECTION TWENTY-SIX: ABUSE AND ASSAULT SECTION TWENTY-SEVEN: PRINCIPLES OF IMAGING SECITON TWENTY-EIGHT: SPECIAL SITUATIONS
