Organized for easy reference, this comprehensive, concise, and clinically focused text covers all aspects of emergency medicine. Chapters follow a consistent, structured format - key points, clinical presentation, differential diagnosis, evaluation, management, disposition, and common pitfalls. This edition places greater emphasis on evidence-based medicine and includes tables with statistical data. A resuscitation section has been added. Medical and surgical emergencies have been merged together in sections organized by anatomic system. Each chapter includes references essential for American Board of Emergency Medicine recertification, highlighted in bold. A bound-in CD-ROM contains 496 multiple-choice questions and answers cross-referenced to the relevant book chapters. It is part of the "Doody's Core Titles 2009."
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978-0-7817-5125-4 (9780781751254)
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SECTION I: RESUSCITATION SECTION II: HIGH-RISK CHIEF COMPLAINTS SECTION III: EYE EMERGENCIES SECTION IV: ENT AND DENTAL EMERGENCIES SECTION V: PULMONARY EMERGENCIES SECTION VI: CARDIOVASCULAR EMERGENCIES SECTION VII: VASCULAR EMERGENCIES SECTION VIII: GASTROINTESTINAL EMERGENCIES SECTION IX: RENAL AND UROLOGIC EMERGENCIES SECTION X: GYNECOLOGIC EMERGENCIES SECTION XI: OBSTETRIC EMERGENCIES SECTION XII: MUSCULOSKELETAL DISORDERS SECTION XIII: NEUROLOGIC EMERGENCIES SECTION XIV: PSYCHIATRIC EMERGENCIES SECTION XV: DERMATOLOGIC EMERGENCIES SECTION XVI: ALLERGIC AND IMMUNOLOGIC EMERGENCIES SECTION XVII: INFECTIOUS DISEASE EMERGENCIES SECTION XVIII: HEMATOLOGIC/ ONCOLOGIC EMERGENCIES SECTION XIX: ENDOCRINE AND METABOLIC EMERGENCIES SECTION XX: TRAUMA PART I. General Considerations PART II. Specific Injuries PART III. Orthopaedic Trauma PART IV. Special Considerations SECTION XXI: PEDIATRICS PART I. Resuscitation PART II. Pediatric Trauma PART III. Chief Complaints PART IV. Specific Diseases PART V. Administrative and Clinical Issues SECTION XXII: TOXICOLOGY PART I. General Considerations PART II. Alcohol-Related Agents and Conditions PART III. Analgesics and Related Conditions PART IV. Anticonvulsants and Sedative-Hypnotics PART V. Anti-Infective Agents and Biocides PART VI. Cardiovascular Drugs PART VII. Chemicals, Gases, and Metabolic Poisons PART VIII. Psychotherapeutic Agents and Related Conditions PART IX. Stimulants and Hallucinogens PART X. Miscellaneous Agents and Conditions SECTION XXIII: ENVIRONMENTAL EMERGENCIES PART I. Bites and Envenomations PART II. Physical Agents SECTION XXIV: ADMINISTRATIVE AND SPECIAL CLINICAL CONSIDERATIONS PART I. Prehospital Care PART II. Patient Safety, Ethical, Legal and Regulatory Issues PART III. Special Clinical Considerations SECTION XXV: APPENDICES Subject Index 1851
