Accident and emergency medicine

Used for thousands of years by indigenous tribes of the Amazon rain forest, the mystical brew ayahuasca is now becoming increasingly popular in the West.

For those students interested in becoming an EMT, exams need to be passed, and a lot of studying needs to be done.

What potential does psychotherapy have for mediating the impact of childhood developmental trauma on adult life?

The global trend of increasingly ageing societies and long term illnesses has meant a growth in demand for intensive care resources.

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The relationship between autism and PTSD has historically been neglected in research and understanding but impacts the lives of many.

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This new volume in the established and well-respected series of Self-Assessment Color Reviews covers all aspects of adult emergency medicine.

The second edition builds upon the previous content, exploring new and emerging evidence to enhance the structure and content of rehabilitation provided.

600 pages, 1177 images, with 32 contributorsThe first volume in the fourth edition of Chadwick’s Child Maltreatment provides an overview of the signs and effects of physical abuse and neglect toward children.

660 pages, 95 images, 53 contributorsSexual Assault Victimization Across the Life Span: A Clinical Guide offers a broad array of information for sexual assault intervention, from the fundamentals of physical evaluation and investigation to in-depth guides to the unique challenges presented by cases of sexual assault.

456 pages, 350 images, with 36 contributorsVolume two in the fourth edition of Chadwick’s Child Maltreatment series provides an overview of the signs and effects of sexual abuse and psychological maltreatment toward children.

798 pages, 466 images, with 44 contributorsVolume three of Chadwick’s Child Maltreatment provides an overview of topics ranging from the risks of the Internet, family abduction, the legal and forensic aspects of child maltreatment cases, and the roles of physicians, nurses, social workers, and multidisciplinary teams.

With some 200 million people affected by armed conflict or genocide, refugees are appearing in record numbers.

628 pages, 34 images, 51 contributors

Violence Against Women examines a wide range of relationships that may be affected by intimate partner violence and takes a culturally sensitive, international approach to issues underpinning family violence, dating violence, and the injuries children suffer when their caregivers perpetrate violence.

This book provides the basis needed for a dialogue between intensivists and emergency surgeons regarding the management and monitoring of acute care surgery (ACS) patients who require Intensive Care Unit (ICU) admission.

This book describes and illustrates the gamut of errors that may arise during the performance and interpretation of imaging of both nontraumatic and traumatic emergencies, using a head-to-toe approach.

This extensively updated textbook comprehensively reviews the latest developments in evidence-based critical care.

The Golden Hour is a well-established concept in emergency medicine, related to the critical period of one hour after an injury, accident or trauma.

This text provides a concise, yet comprehensive overview of telemedicine in the ICU.

Written by experts in the anesthesiology field, this unique resource explores the various issues and complications that arise during the administration of anesthesiology in various clinical settings.

512 pages, 238 images, with 24 contributorsSexual assault remains one of the most problematic and controversial issues in law, medicine, and in society at large.

This comprehensive, evidence-based book is intended to serve as a reference for medical practitioners involved in the perioperative care of neurosurgical patients.

This revised and expanded second edition presents the most recent evidence-based facts on perioperative fluid management and discusses fluid management from basic sciences to clinical applications and the patients' outcomes.

This concise, accessible book covers anesthesia for hepatico-pancreatic-biliary (HPB) surgery and transplantation, based on randomized clinical trials, meta-analyses, case series, reports, and hands-on experience.

This book is unique in its approach, covering the impact of virtual endoscopy and 3D reconstruction on surgical modalities and perioperative airway options.

This is a book for clinician educators.

This comprehensively updated second edition features major revisions, 24 new chapters and more than 40 new authors, reflecting both the advances and key challenges within the field.

This book is a quick guide to the key components of trauma center administration, management, and patient care.

This book focuses on the interface between the patient and the healthcare system as the entryway to high-quality care and improved outcomes.

This comprehensive book provides an in-depth examination of a broad range of procedures that benefit from ultrasound guidance in the point-of-care setting.

 This is a comprehensive yet easy to read study guide for those preparing for the echocardiography board examinations, which brings all of the critical resources together into one convenient and portable resource.

This book offers valuable guidance to neurointensivists, other neurocritical care staff, and those desiring to develop a neurocritical care unit via a thorough discussion of neurological emergencies and neurocritical care unit organization.

This book acts as a portable and easy-to-understand reference for surgical trainees or young faculty members that are interested in reviewing procedures on the way to the operating room.

This book is the first to dissect the factors contributing to burnout that impact women physicians and seeks to appropriately address these issues.

This textbook describes what nurses need to know about pediatric disaster nursing, including public policy, and addresses preparedness for all types of disasters (natural and man-made) and strategies for hospital, school and community preparedness.

This book provides a comprehensive framework for developing heart teams to manage a variety of cardiovascular diseases.

Critical care medicine is responsible for many of the most important advances in outcomes after cardiothoracic surgery in the past two decades.

This comprehensive, multi-authored book covers all aspects of surgery on obese patients in emergency conditions.

This book provides a concise yet comprehensive overview of pediatric acute respiratory distress syndrome (PARDS).

This book provides readers with a detailed orientation to healthcare simulation research, aiming to provide descriptive and illustrative accounts of healthcare simulation research (HSR).

This book is a clinical manual that covers the whole spectrum of swallowing and its disorders.

This text provides a comprehensive, state-of-the-art overview of acute brain dysfunction in the critically ill.

This book comprehensively covers the knowledge and skills that physicians, medical students and mid-level providers (physician assistants and nurse practitioners) need in order to care for patients with plant or arthropod exposures.

This book aims to concisely present the most common types of musculoskeletal infections and demonstrate the key components of accurate diagnosis, treatment, and management.

Updated and expanded, this comprehensive new edition captures the considerable evolution in the anesthetic management of patients requiring anesthesia for non-cardiac intrathoracic diagnostic and therapeutic procedures.

This book serves as a tool for general psychiatrists, medical students, residents, and fellows looking for a clinically relevant and high-yield overview of addiction psychiatry in preparation for their board exams - or for everyday clinical practice.

This comprehensive third edition provides robust support to clinicians providing perioperative care for patients.

This book offers an essential guide to managing the most heatedly debated topics of practical interest in anesthesia and intensive care.

This book presents the state of the art in high-flow nasal cannula (HFNC), an oxygen therapy technique that has recently proven to be a very promising approach to supporting respiratory function in several medical fields.