Accident and emergency medicine

Emergency physicians assess and manage a wide variety of problems from patients presenting with a diversity of severities, ranging from mild to severe and life-threatening.

This new and updated edition is a practical guide to intensive care for the non-specialist, providing the core knowledge and principles of intensive care patient management.

This new and updated edition is a practical guide to intensive care for the non-specialist, providing the core knowledge and principles of intensive care patient management.

The 80 rules you need to prepare for action in a medical disaster Here are 80 disaster management rules to reflect on, remember and follow in the immediate aftermath of an incident involving mass casualties.

The 80 rules you need to prepare for action in a medical disaster Here are 80 disaster management rules to reflect on, remember and follow in the immediate aftermath of an incident involving mass casualties.

With a large proportion of emergency admissions due to occupational health problems, the effect this can have on your practice cannot be ignored.

With a large proportion of emergency admissions due to occupational health problems, the effect this can have on your practice cannot be ignored.

Trauma Rules 2 retains its lively and fun presentation to help you remember the essential principles of trauma care and feel confident about handling and treating patients appropriately in the first hours of injury.

An understanding of current trauma imaging concepts is essential for all medical personnel involved in the care of trauma patients where the outcome may depend on a rapid assessment of the nature and severity of injuries, allowing appropriate medical management and surgical or non-surgical intervention.

The at a Glance series is popular among medical students and junior doctors for its concise and simple approach and excellent illustrations.

Acute Medical Emergencies is based on the popular Advanced Life Support Group course MedicALS (Medical Advanced Life Support) and is an invaluable resource for all doctors dealing with medical emergencies.

Acute Medical Emergencies is based on the popular Advanced Life Support Group course MedicALS (Medical Advanced Life Support) and is an invaluable resource for all doctors dealing with medical emergencies.

If you re taking Part A of the MCEM then look no further we have the resources to help you pass!

The Basic Guide to Medical Emergencies in the Dental Practice is a must have book for all dental care professionals.

Remarkable improvements in cardiac survival rates have made cardiovascular critical care much more common, but no less challenging for the practitioner.

This ABC introduces medicine in areas of conflict or natural disaster responding to the growing number of regions affected.

An ideal accompaniment to ECGs for the Emergency Physician Volume 1

The often complex problems of the trauma patient present many challenges to front line emergency staff.

Emergency physicians assess and manage a wide variety of problems from patients presenting with a diversity of severities, ranging from mild to severe and life-threatening.

Inherent to the teaching and practice of emergency medicine are specific challenges not found in other specialties - the unknowns of the emergency department, the need to identify life- and limb-threatening conditions, the pressure to solve problems and find solutions quickly, and the orchestration of clinical specialists and ancillary services.

This scenario-based text provides answers to urgent and emergent questions in acute, emergency, and critical care situations focusing on the electrocardiogram in patient care management.

This useful handbook provides a concise compilation of the evidence supporting diagnostic testing and clinical decision rules in emergency care.

Making Sense of the ECG: Cases for Self-Assessment presents everything you need to assess your ability to interpret ECGs accurately, perform differential diagnosis, and decide upon the most appropriate clinical management in each situation.

The ability to read a paper, judge its quality, the importance of its results, and make a decision about whether to change practice based on the information given, is a core skill for all doctors.

Providing over 150 single best answer questions, this comprehensive question and answer guide provides candidates with the practice material necessary to successfully pass trauma examinations such as the ATLS or EMST.

Drug prescribing errors are a common cause of hospital admission, and adverse reactions can have devastating effects, some even fatal.

The Trauma Care Manual was first published in 2000, and was the first evidence-based manual of best trauma practice.

The Medicine on the Move series provides fully-flexible access to subjects across the curriculum, in this case emergency and acute medicine, in a unique combination of print and mobile formats.

Disaster medicine is a broad and dynamic field that encompasses the medical and surgical response to mass casualty incidents including rail, air, and road traffic accidents; domestic terrorism; and pandemic outbreaks.

The Trauma Care Manual was first published in 2000, and was the first evidence-based manual of best trauma practice.

Core Anatomy - Illustrated' is a concise new atlas of human anatomy for medical and allied healthcare undergraduates, postgraduate trainees, and teaching staff.

El paciente neurológico grave requiere para su manejo integral de un monitoreo estrecho y a profundidad que tiene como objetivo poder detectar de manera temprana y oportuna cualquier alteración fisiopatológica que comprometa aún más la función, la integridad y la estabilidad de un sistema nervioso central ya de por sí lesionado.

Sebastian Junger, the bestselling author of War and The Perfect Storm, takes a critical look at post-traumatic stress disorder and the many challenges today's returning veterans face in modern society.

Just as the prevalence of incest and child sexual abuse was a well-kept secret until recently, the phenomenon of multiple personality disorder (MPD) - recently re-labelled dissociative identity disorder [DID] - has been minimized.

In Paramedics On and Off the Streets, Michael K.

In Paramedics On and Off the Streets, Michael K.

Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, or PTSD, has long been defined as a mental trauma that solely affects the individual.

Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, or PTSD, has long been defined as a mental trauma that solely affects the individual.

Feedback from users suggest this resource book is more comprehensive and more practical than many others in the market.

Both editors are active duty officers and surgeons in the U.

The Update compiles the most recent developments in experimental and clinical research and practice in one comprehensive reference book.

Based on a program of study developed at the Children's Hospital Boston, Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine, Pediatric Anesthesiology Review: Clinical Cases for Self-Assessment provides essential medical information for the subspecialty of pediatric anesthesiology.

All anesthesiologists eventually face the fear of a "e;near miss,"e; when a patient's life has been put at risk.

Principles and Practice of Anesthesia for Thoracic Surgery will serve as an updated comprehensive review covering not only the recent advances, but also topics that haven't been covered in previously published texts: extracorporeal ventilatory support, new advances in chest imaging modalities, lung isolation with a difficult airway, pulmonary thrombo-endarterectomy, and chronic post-thoracotomy pain.

Aimed at school staff and other caregivers on the front lines of providing assistance without in-depth training or an understanding of how trauma manifests, this book offers a detailed approach to helping children who have experienced trauma.

Forget everything youve learned about medical terminology!

First responders confronted by forensic cases are forced to consider the competing concerns of administering proper medical treatment while at the same time safeguarding vital evidence.

Revised and updated, this edition covers general principles of overdose management; the automonic nervous system, neurotransmitters and drugs; drugs used in psychiatry; cardiac drugs; agents that burn; gases and abnormal haemoglobin formation; the

Now in its thirteenth edition, Dreisbach's Handbook of Poisoning is long established as the definitive handbook of poisoning for all physicians, nurses, crisis and hotline workers, paramedics, and students.