Principles and practice of emergency medicine /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Baltimore :
Williams & Wilkins,
[1999]
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| Edition: | Fourth edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Resuscitation
- Mechanisms of dying and techniques of resuscitation
- Cardiovascular system failure and shock
- Sudden death and resuscitation
- Brain death and organ retrieval - Ethical issues in resuscitation
- Techniques and tips
- Pain management
- Wound management
- ENT techniques
- Foreign body removal
- Routes for drugs and fluids
- Imaging
- Genitourinary techniques
- Gastrointestinal techniques: nasogastric tube insertion
- Practice parameters, clinical policies, practice quidelines
- Trauma
- Traumatology and trauma systems
- Prehospital management of trauma
- Emergency management of trauma
- Trauma to the head
- Trauma to the neck: general considerations
- Thoracic trauma
- Abdominal trauma
- Injuries of the genitourinary tract
- Trauma to the peripheral vascular system
- Trauma to the hand and nail
- Nail evaluation and procedures
- Special considerations
- Nontrauma emergencies
- Cardiovascular
- Cardiovascular emergencies
- Cardiovascular procedures
- Cardiac emergencies
- Vascular emergencies
- Adult respiratory
- Acute respiratory insufficiency: overview
- Dyspnea
- Evaluation of pulmonary function in the emergency department
- Specific respiratory conditions
- Respiratory pharmacotherapy in asthma and obstructive lung disease
- Gastrointestinal
- Abdominal pain: evaluation
- Gastrointestinal bleeding
- Esophageal emergencies and dysphagia
- Acute gastroenteritis
- Appendicitis
- Perforated viscus
- Intraoabdominal infections
- Gastritis and peptic ulcer disease
- Crohn disease and ulcerative colitis
- Diverticulitis and diverticulosis
- Acute gallbladder and biliary tract disease
- Liver disease and hepatitis
- Pancreatic disease
- Anorectal disorders
- Renal and genitourinary
- Renal failure
- Urinary tract infections, cystitis, pyelonephritis
- Hematuria
- Male genital problems
- Acute urinary retention and bladder drainage
- Neurogenic bladder: causes and evaluation
- Renal calculi (kidney stones)
- Obstetrics and gynecology
- Obstetric emergencies
- Gynecologic emergencies
- The sexually assaulted patient
- Infectious disease
- Immunology
- Infectious disease
- Specific infections
- Abscesses
- Sexually transmitted diseases
- Endocrine and metabolic balance
- Adrenal insufficiency and adrenal crisis
- Inappropriate secretion of antidiuretic hormone
- Thyroid disorders
- Pheochromocytoma
- The porphyrias
- Hematologic
- Anemia
- Acquired Hemorrhagic disorders
- Emergency management of common congenital bleeding syndromes: hemophilia and allied disorders
- Blood cell disorders
- Sickle cell disease
- Splenomegaly
- Transfusion therapy in emergency medicine
- Oncologic emergencies
- Neurologic
- Neurological procedures
- Emergency evaluation of neurologic disorders
- Headache and facial pain
- Syncope
- Confusion
- The comatose patient
- Seizures
- Dizziness or vertigo
- Stroke and transient ischemic attacks
- Nontraumatic spinal cord syndromes
- Neuromuscular emergencies
- Increased intracranial pressure
- Hydrocephalus shunts in the emergency department
- Neuroleptic malignant syndrome
- Ophthalmology
- Ocular evaluation and procedures: general considerations
- Ocular trauma
- Acute visual loss
- The acute painful eye
- Common eye infections
- Neuro-ophthalomologic emergencies
- The eye and systematic disease
- Ophthalmologic pharmacotherapy in emergencies
- Dermatology
- Dermatologic examinations
- Pruritus
- Cutaneous signs of systemic disease
- Life-threatening dermatoses
- Dermatitis
- Purpura
- Skin infections
- Vesiculobullous eruptions
- Drug eruptions
- Uriticaria
- Orthopedics
- Orthopedic procedures
- Musculoskeletal injuries
- Acute low-back pain
- Emergencies in sports
- Emergency rheumatology
- Dental and periodontal
- Intraoral local anesthesia
- Toothache and pain of dental origin
- Gingiva
- Psychiatric and behavioral emergencies
- Triage
- Tips for initial evaluation of the neuropsychiatric patient
- Emergency department psychiatric emergencies
- Psychiatric medical legal considerations: codes, restraints, commitments, transfers, and COBRA
- Organic brain syndromes and disorders
- Anxiety or panic disorders
- Somatoform disorders
- Domestic abuse, elder abuse, and the abused, assaulted adult
- Special populations
- Pediatrics
- Evaluation
- Resuscitation
- Airways
- Infections
- Systems
- Geriatric emergency medicine: overview
- Acute mental status change in the elderly
- Environmental and toxicology emergencies
- Environmental
- High altitude illness: acute mountain sickness, pulmonary edema, cerebral edema, retinal hemorrhage, bronchitis
- Environmental pressure
- Near-drowning
- Bites
- Lightning and electrical injuries
- Smoke inhalation
- Travel medicine
- Toxicology
- Poison control centers
- Prehospital and interhospital care of the poisoned or overdosed patient
- The poisoned patient: overview
- Critical care medical toxivcology
- Appendix: Index of substances
- Drug abuse and toxicity
- Alcohol
- Occupational exposures and art hazards
- Food poisoning
- Miscellaneous
- Emergency medical services (EMS) systems
- EMS systems development in the United States
- EMS systems factors and survival of cardiac arrest
- The effect of EMS systems factors on trauma survival
- Ground and air emergency transport
- Disaster planning and operation in the emergency department
- International perspective of EMS systems development
- Emergency department management
- Medicolegal aspects of emergency care
- Appendix A: Normal reference values
- Appendix B: Useful tables.