Emergency Medicine Manual

O. John Ma, M.D., Associate Professor, Vice Chair for Academic Advancement, and Research Director, Department of Emergency Medicine, Truman Medical Center, University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine, Kansas City, Missouri. David Cline, M.D., Associate Professor, Director of Research, Department of Emergency Medicine, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Baptist Medical Center, Winston-Salem, North Carolina Dr. Tintinalli is a world-reknown emergency physician actively practicing at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill. Gabor D. Kelen, MD, Professor and Chair, Department of Emergency Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland J. Stephan Stapczynski, MD, Professor and Chair, Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky

SECTION ONE: PREHOSPITAL CARESECTION TWO: DISASTER PREPAREDNESSSECTION THREE: RESUSCITATIVE PROBLEMS & TECHNIQUESSECTION FOUR: SHOCK SECTION FIVE: ANALGESIA, ANESTHESIA, AND SEDATION SECTION SIX: EMERGENCY WOUND MANAGEMENT SECTION SEVEN: CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE SECTION EIGHT: PULMONARY EMERGENCIES SECTION NINE: GASTROINTESTINAL EMERGENCIES SECTION TEN: RENAL AND GENITOURINARY DISORDERS SECTION ELEVEN: GYNECOLOGY AND OBSTETRICS SECTION TWELVE: PEDIATRICS SECTION THIRTEEN: INFECTIOUS DISEASESSECTION FOURTEEN: TOXICOLOGY AND PHARMACOLOGY SECTION FIFTEEN: ENVIRONMENTAL INJURIES SECTION SIXTEEN: EMERGENCY MEDICINE IN UNIQUE ENVIRONMENTS SECTION SEVENTEEN: ENDOCRINE EMERGENCIES SECTION EIGHTEEN: HEMATOLOGIC AND ONCOLOGIC EMERGENCIES SECTION 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 SECTION TWENTY-EIGHT: SPECIAL SITUATIONS