Emergency Medicine 4^th edition includes the latest advances and approaches in Emergency Medicine as well as incorporating extensive refinements of existing clinical management. Over sixty senior practising emergency clinicians and physicians have contributed on key areas such as resuscitation, CPR, heart attacks, trauma, paediatrics, airway management, pain relief, HIV, geriatric patients and overdose which have all been completely updated and rewritten. Providing concise information on diagnosis, investigations and treatment, Emergency Medicine 4^th edition covers over 20 new topics and introduces 2 new chapters.

1. Cardiopulmonary resuscitation
2. Securing the airway and ventilation
3. Resuscitation procedures
4. Emergency department ultrasound
5. Physiological monitoring in the Emergency Department
6. The patient with chest pain, dyspnoea or haemoptysis
7. Coronary syndromes and myocardial infarction.
8. Acute pulmonary oedema
9. Pulmonary emboli and venous thromboses
10. Shock
11. Emergency treatment of hypertension
12. Clinical electrocardiography and arrhythmia management,
13. Respiratory emergencies: The acutely breathless patient
14. Assessment and management of major trauma
15. Neurosurgical emergencies
16. Aortic aneurysms, dissections and acute limb ischaemia
17. Musculoskeletal injuries and orthopaedic principles
18. Head injuries
19. Urological trauma and emergencies
20. Burns
21. Lacerations and minor ED surgery
22. Analgesia and sedation in the emergency department
23. Patient transport and retrieval
24. Mass casualty, chemical, biological and radiological hazard contingencie
25. The seriously ill patient: Tips and traps
26. Neurological emergencies
27. Gastrointestinal emergencies
28. Overdose and poisoning
29. Drowning
30. Envenomation
31. Electrical injuries
32. Hypothermia and hyperthermia
33. Childhood emergencies
34. Geriatric care
35. Emergency gynaecology
36. Endocrine emergencies
37. Metabolic disorders
38. Ophthalmic emergencies
39. Ear, nose and throat emergencies
40. Dental emergencies
41. Psychiatric presentations
42. Dermatological emergencies
43. Infectious diseases
44. Patiens with HIV infection
45. The cancer neutropenic patient:
46. Emergency presentations of drugs and alcohol:
47. Emergency department haematology:
48. Diagnostic imaging in emergency patients
49. The General Practitioner
50. Medico-legal issues and assuring quality in emergency care

Appendix:
Emergency rapid reference

By Gordian W.O. Fulde, MBBS, FRACS, FRCS (Ed), FRCS (A&E) Ed, FACEM, Director, Emergency Medicine, St Vincent's Hospital, Sydney; Associate Professor, Emergency Medicine, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia