Description
A major postgraduate textbook in emergency medicine, covering all the major topics that present to the trainee doctor in the emergency department.
Key Features
- A comprehensive textbook of adult emergency medicine for trainee doctors - covers all the problems likely to present to a trainee in the emergency department.
- Chapters are short and concise, with key point boxes (called ''Essentials'') at the beginning.
- Also has boxes featuring controversial areas of treatment.
- Practical and clinically orientated.
New to this Edition
- Major changes to resuscitation guidelines.
- Complete rewriting of ENT section.
- Significant updating of following topics - acute coronary syndrome management, trauma, sepsis management, imaging, arrhythmias.
- Expansion of administration section - especially patient safety.
- Changes to drug overdose sections in toxicology section.
Contents
Resuscitation. Critical care. Trauma. Orthopaedic Emergencies. Cardiovascular. Respiratory. Digestive. Neurology. Infectious diseases. Genitourinary. Endocrine. Metabolic. Haematology. Rheumatology and musculoskeltal. Dermatology. Eyes. Dental. ENT. Obstetrics and gynaecology. Psychiatric emergencies. Challenging situations. Pain relief. Ultrasound. Academic emergency medicine. Emergency medicine and the law. Emergency medical systems. Administration. Environmental. Toxicology. Toxinology.
Author Information
By Peter Cameron, MBBS, MD, FACEM, Professor of Emergency Medicine, Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicne. Monash University, The Alfred Hospital, Melbourne, Australia; George Jelinek, MB, BS, MD, DipDHM, FACEM, UWA Departemnt of Emergency Medidine, Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, Nedlands, Western Australia; Anne-Maree Kelly, MD, MClinED, FACEM, Professor and Director of Emergency Medicine, Westner Hospital, Footscray, Australia; Lindsay Murray, MB, BS, FACEM, Emergency Physician and Clinical Toxicologist, Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, Nedlands, Australia and Anthony F. T. Brown, MBChB, FRCP, FRCS, FACEM, FFAEM, Senior Staff Specialist, Department of Emergency Medicine, Royal Brisbane Hospital, Brisbane, Australia
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