The Sixth Edition of this well-known and authoritative textbook provides comprehensive, up-to-date coverage of Adult Emergency Medicine. It is an invaluable guide for trainees and other health professionals, including nurse specialists and paramedics, offering concise and practical guidance based on the latest best practices and evidence-based guidelines. Originally published over 25 years ago this title has been regularly updated to keep up with current practice.
All major topics encountered in the emergency department are covered and have been updated to reflect recent changes in this constantly evolving specialty. Chapters are concise and practical, with key points and controversial areas highlighted.
In addition, the textbook addresses complex topics such as death and dying, managing challenging patients, ethics, providing testimony, and domestic violence. It also covers governance, training, research, and organisational subjects like disaster planning and response, humanitarian emergencies, and refugee medicine. This content provides a framework for understanding the complexities of managing major emergency care systems.
This textbook remains a vital resource for anyone involved in the practice of emergency medicine.
Key Features
- Practical guide– covers everything you are likely to come across
- Clinically orientated and thoroughly updated by a team of expert editors
- Concise and readable chapters – accessible for trainee doctors as well as emergency medicine nursing specialties and those working in urgent care units
- Key points and highlighted controversial areas support additional learning
- Supports image interpretation in emergency medicine
New to this edition
- Fully refreshed and updated to reflect the latest evidence and practice
- New content on resuscitation, critical care, trauma, cardiology, pandemic preparedness and infection control, emergency care in humanitarian crises, wellness, resilience, and performance in emergency medicine
- Images updated to reflect new technology
- Additional images available in the eBook
1. Introduction - p. xxiii 2. Assessments - p. xxiv 3. Videos - p. xxiv 4. SECTION 1 RESUSCITATION - p. 1 5. SECTION 2 CRITICAL CARE - p. 13 6. SECTION 3 TRAUMA - p. 70 7. Section 4 ORTHOPAEDIC EMERGENCIES - p. 161 8. Section 5 CARDIOVASCULAR EMERGENCIES - p. 208 9. Section 6 RESPIRATORY EMERGENCIES - p. 279 10. Section 7 DIGESTIVE EMERGENCIES - p. 325 11. Section 8 NEUROLOGY EMERGENCIES - p. 381 12. Section 9 INFECTIOUS DISEASE EMERGENCIES - p. 420 13. Section 10 GENITOURINARY EMERGENCIES - p. 485 14. Acute kidney injury - p. 485 15. The acute scrotum - p. 494 16. Renal colic - p. 499 17. 11 ENDOCRINE EMERGENCIES - p. 503 18. Diabetes mellitus and hypoglycaemia: an overview - p. 503 19. Diabetic ketoacidosis and hyperosmolar, hyperglycaemic state - p. 505 20. Thyroid and adrenal emergencies - p. 509 21. Section 12 METABOLIC EMERGENCIES - p. 515 22. Section 13 HAEMATOLOGY EMERGENCIES - p. 526 23. Section 14 RHEUMATOLOGY AND MUSCULOSKELETAL EMERGENCIES - p. 547 24. Section 15 DERMATOLOGY EMERGENCIES - p. 571 25. Section 16 OCULAR EMERGENCIES - p. 580 26. Section 17 DENTAL EMERGENCIES - p. 590 27. Section 18 EAR, NOSE AND THROAT EMERGENCIES - p. 594 28. Section 19 OBSTETRICS AND GYNAECOLOGY EMERGENCIES - p. 600 29. Section 20 PSYCHIATRIC EMERGENCIES - p. 626 30. Section 21 CHALLENGING SITUATIONS - p. 658 31. Section 22 PAIN RELIEF - p. 693 32. General pain management - p. 693 33. Local anaesthesia - p. 697.e1 34. Emergency department procedural sedation - p. 697.e1 35. 23 Emergency imaging - p. 712 36. Emergency department ultrasound - p. 712 37. Computed tomography scanning in emergency medicine - p. 758 38. Magnetic resonance imaging in emergency medicine - p. 765 39. 24 Environmental emergencies - p. 771 40. Heat-related illness - p. 771 41. Cold-related illness - p. 774 42. Dysbarism - p. 779 43. Radiation incidents - p. 786 44. Drowning - p. 792 45. Electric shock and lightning injury - p. 797 46. High-altitude illness - p. 801 47. Section 25 TOXICOLOGY EMERGENCIES - p. 805 48. Section 26 TOXINOLOGY EMERGENCIES - p. 894 49. Section 27 ACADEMIC EMERGENCY MEDICINE - p. 911 50. Section 28 EMERGENCY MEDICINE AND THE LAW - p. 932 51. Section 29 EMERGENCY AND MEDICAL SYSTEMS - p. 958 52. Index - p. 1035
The Sixth Edition of this well-known and authoritative textbook provides comprehensive, up-to-date coverage of Adult Emergency Medicine. It is an invaluable guide for trainees and other health professionals, including nurse specialists and paramedics, offering concise and practical guidance based on the latest best practices and evidence-based guidelines. Originally published over 25 years ago this title has been regularly updated to keep up with current practice.
All major topics encountered in the emergency department are covered and have been updated to reflect recent changes in this constantly evolving specialty. Chapters are concise and practical, with key points and controversial areas highlighted.
In addition, the textbook addresses complex topics such as death and dying, managing challenging patients, ethics, providing testimony, and domestic violence. It also covers governance, training, research, and organisational subjects like disaster planning and response, humanitarian emergencies, and refugee medicine. This content provides a framework for understanding the complexities of managing major emergency care systems.
This textbook remains a vital resource for anyone involved in the practice of emergency medicine.
Key Features
- Practical guide– covers everything you are likely to come across
- Clinically orientated and thoroughly updated by a team of expert editors
- Concise and readable chapters – accessible for trainee doctors as well as emergency medicine nursing specialties and those working in urgent care units
- Key points and highlighted controversial areas support additional learning
- Supports image interpretation in emergency medicine
New to this edition
- Fully refreshed and updated to reflect the latest evidence and practice
- New content on resuscitation, critical care, trauma, cardiology, pandemic preparedness and infection control, emergency care in humanitarian crises, wellness, resilience, and performance in emergency medicine
- Images updated to reflect new technology
- Additional images available in the eBook
1. Introduction - p. xxiii 2. Assessments - p. xxiv 3. Videos - p. xxiv 4. SECTION 1 RESUSCITATION - p. 1 5. SECTION 2 CRITICAL CARE - p. 13 6. SECTION 3 TRAUMA - p. 70 7. Section 4 ORTHOPAEDIC EMERGENCIES - p. 161 8. Section 5 CARDIOVASCULAR EMERGENCIES - p. 208 9. Section 6 RESPIRATORY EMERGENCIES - p. 279 10. Section 7 DIGESTIVE EMERGENCIES - p. 325 11. Section 8 NEUROLOGY EMERGENCIES - p. 381 12. Section 9 INFECTIOUS DISEASE EMERGENCIES - p. 420 13. Section 10 GENITOURINARY EMERGENCIES - p. 485 14. Acute kidney injury - p. 485 15. The acute scrotum - p. 494 16. Renal colic - p. 499 17. 11 ENDOCRINE EMERGENCIES - p. 503 18. Diabetes mellitus and hypoglycaemia: an overview - p. 503 19. Diabetic ketoacidosis and hyperosmolar, hyperglycaemic state - p. 505 20. Thyroid and adrenal emergencies - p. 509 21. Section 12 METABOLIC EMERGENCIES - p. 515 22. Section 13 HAEMATOLOGY EMERGENCIES - p. 526 23. Section 14 RHEUMATOLOGY AND MUSCULOSKELETAL EMERGENCIES - p. 547 24. Section 15 DERMATOLOGY EMERGENCIES - p. 571 25. Section 16 OCULAR EMERGENCIES - p. 580 26. Section 17 DENTAL EMERGENCIES - p. 590 27. Section 18 EAR, NOSE AND THROAT EMERGENCIES - p. 594 28. Section 19 OBSTETRICS AND GYNAECOLOGY EMERGENCIES - p. 600 29. Section 20 PSYCHIATRIC EMERGENCIES - p. 626 30. Section 21 CHALLENGING SITUATIONS - p. 658 31. Section 22 PAIN RELIEF - p. 693 32. General pain management - p. 693 33. Local anaesthesia - p. 697.e1 34. Emergency department procedural sedation - p. 697.e1 35. 23 Emergency imaging - p. 712 36. Emergency department ultrasound - p. 712 37. Computed tomography scanning in emergency medicine - p. 758 38. Magnetic resonance imaging in emergency medicine - p. 765 39. 24 Environmental emergencies - p. 771 40. Heat-related illness - p. 771 41. Cold-related illness - p. 774 42. Dysbarism - p. 779 43. Radiation incidents - p. 786 44. Drowning - p. 792 45. Electric shock and lightning injury - p. 797 46. High-altitude illness - p. 801 47. Section 25 TOXICOLOGY EMERGENCIES - p. 805 48. Section 26 TOXINOLOGY EMERGENCIES - p. 894 49. Section 27 ACADEMIC EMERGENCY MEDICINE - p. 911 50. Section 28 EMERGENCY MEDICINE AND THE LAW - p. 932 51. Section 29 EMERGENCY AND MEDICAL SYSTEMS - p. 958 52. Index - p. 1035
