Oxford Handbook of Accident and Emergency Medicine

Meant for doctors, emergency nurse-practitioners, and other health professionals. This book deals with patients who present to an Accident and Emergency Department. It offers guidance on the management of situations including poisoning, trauma, psychiatric and paediatric emergencies. It contains guidelines for emergencies, and topics such as SARS.

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This popular handbook provides practical, accessible guidelines on a huge range of situations that present to the A & E department, and is the essential guide for junior doctors (including candidates for examinations in Accident and Emergency Medicine), specialist nurses, paramedics, and general practitioners. The text is deliberately precise and prescriptive. It gives up-to-date step-by-step advice on presentation, investigation, diagnosis, emergency treatment and further referral for adult and paediatric patients. Important practical procedures are covered in stepwise, easy-to-follow format with line diagrams illustrating anatomical landmarks.