Emergency Medicine

This emergency medicine resource is written by practicing emergency physicians. It is organized in the manner readers would approach their patients - stabilization, examination, diagnosis and treatment are reviewed before epidemiology and pathophysiology to provide urgent information first.

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This resource emergency medicine text has been written by practicing emergency physicians. Chapters are organized in the same manner that patients would approach their patients - stabilization, physical examination, diagnosis and treatment are reviewed prior to epidemiology and pathophysiology to provide the most urgently needed information first. Approaches to the paediatric patient are integrated throughout the text and "stand-alone" chapters on paediatric issues such as bacteremia are also included. "Critical Decisions" sections use decision analysis to help readers decide how to treat, when to admit and when to transfer patients and the retrieval of information on clinical assessment and treatment essentials is facilitated by standardized tables. The text presents concise discussions of procedures used most frequently in the Emergency Departments, such as airway control and lumbar puncture. Drug dosages and side effects are reviewed in a pharmacology glossary and common words and phrases are translated in an English-Spanish glossary.