Emergency Medicine Pearls
2nd Edition
Published on 6. November 2000
Book
Paperback/Softback
304 pages
978-0-8036-0755-2 (ISBN)
Description
This text emphasizes the principles of emergency room survival and trauma procedures. Each chapter begins with pre-hospital considerations and goes on to discuss new diagnostic approaches and therapies, and new antibiotic regimens. This edition has an additional chapter on ENT/dental emergencies.
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Edition
2nd Revised edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Pennsylvania
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
Revised edition
Illustrations
illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 184 mm
Width: 108 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
249 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8036-0755-2 (9780803607552)
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Other editions
Previous edition
Book
01/1996
F.A. Davis Company
€39.75
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Content
Welcome to the emergency department; know your ABCs - resuscitation and stabilization; trauma; chest pain; shortness of breath; abdominal pain; neurologic problems; acute eye problems; ENT and dental emergencies; low back pain; poisonings and principles of toxicology; obstetric and gynaecologic problems; common paediatric problems; common infections; orthopaedic injuries and swollen joints; principles of wound management; environmental disorders; the difficult patient; ethical, social and legal issues in the emergency department. Appendices: advanced cardiac life support algorithms; effects of specific toxins on various organ systems.