Principles and practice of emergency medicine /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Schwartz, George R.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Baltimore : Williams & Wilkins, [1999]
Edition:Fourth edition.
Subjects:
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.