The essential emergency medicine reference!—endorsed by the American College of Emergency Physicians

Emergency Medicine Sixth Edition covers the gamut of emergency medicine practice in brief, clinically focused chapters.

New to this edition are chapters on:

• bioterroism and weapons of mass destruction
• pharmacology of antimicrobials
• antifungals, and antivirals
• principles of drug interactions
• endocarditis
• abdominal and pelvic pain in the non-pregnant patient

Pharmacologic considerations, tables of vital differential diagnoses, and observation criteria throughout are new features reflecting developments in this dynamic specialty.

Contents

1. Prehospital Care
2. Disaster Preparedness
3. Resuscitative Problems and Techniques
4. Shock
5. Analgesia, Anesthesia, and Sedation
6. Emergency Wound Management
7. Cardiovascular Diseases
8. Pulmonary Emergencies
9. Gastrointestinal Emergencies
10. Renal and Genitourinary Disorders
11. Gynecology and Obstetrics
12. Pediatrics
13. Infectious Diseases
14. Toxicology and Pharmacology
15. Environmental Injuries
16. Endocrine Emergencies
17. Hematologic and Oncologic Emergencies
18. Neurology
19. Eye, Ear, Nose, Throat, and Oral Surgery
20. Disorders of the Skin
21. Trauma
22. Injuries to the Bones, Joints, and Soft Tissue
23. Nontraumatic Musculoskeletal Disorders
24. Psychosocial Disorders
25. Abuse and Assault
26. Principles of Imaging
27. Special Situations

Index

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