Accident and emergency medicine

Prescription Drug Diversion and Pain provides an interdisciplinary overview of medications used to treat chronic pain, specifically the benefits and risks that are posed by long-term opioids use.

Prescription Drug Diversion and Pain provides an interdisciplinary overview of medications used to treat chronic pain, specifically the benefits and risks that are posed by long-term opioids use.

Critical care happens where it is needed, not just in the ICU.

In over 150 cases featuring 600, high-quality images, Emergency Radiology Cases provides a succinct review of problems encountered by Radiologists when on call for the emergency room.

In over 150 cases featuring 600, high-quality images, Emergency Radiology Cases provides a succinct review of problems encountered by Radiologists when on call for the emergency room.

Brain death-the condition of a non-functioning brain, has been widely adopted around the world as a definition of death since it was detailed in a Report by an Ad Hoc Committee of Harvard Medical School faculty in 1968.

Delirium, stupor and coma are common clinical states that confront clinicians in almost every medical specialty.

Management of critically-ill trauma patients presents multiple challenges that are unique to this patient population.

Cardiology Emergencies covers the presentation, investigation, and management of acute cardiac problems that require speedy diagnosis and management.

This book contains relevant step-by-step information on how to detect, manage, and treat complications and emergencies during the perioperative period.

Thrombotic disorders of the circulatory system represent the leading cause of morbidity, motality, and health care expenditure in the United States.

Traditionally, non-medical, developmental intervention with premature infants has been a controversial topic in neonatal intensive care units (NICU).

This is a comprehensive but concise reference that documents the nature and importance of the injury problem in the United States.

The previous edition of this useful text on epidemiologic methods for studying injuries and evaluating interventions to prevent them provides specific objectives for research in the various stages of injury control planning and implementation, including the types of data needed to reach the objectives.

Written by leading American practitioners, the Oxford American Handbooks of Medicine each offer a pocket-sized overview of an entire specialty, featuring instant access to guidance on the conditions that are most likely to be encountered.

This volume reviews the state of the art in caring for patients dying in the ICU, focusing on both clinical aspects of managing pain and other symptoms, as well as ethical and societal issues that affect the standards of care received.

Disorders due to trauma to the head, spine, and peripheral nerves are among the most common seen by neurologists and neurosurgeons.

This extensively illustrated reference work is designed for health professionals who care for newborn infants including neonatologists, pediatricians, NICU nurses, pediatric neurologists, pediatric surgeons, geneticists, and genetic counselors.

This clinical guide is the culmination of over three decades of experience in neuropsychological rehabilitation of individuals with traumatic brain injuries.

Disasters are difficult to manage for many reasons: the immediacy of the event, magnitude of the event, lack of evidence-based practices, and the limited usefulness of many developed protocols.

Metabolic and electrolyte disorders can pose special challenges to physicians caring for the critically ill patients.

Pediatric Intensive Care offers clinicians and trainees a concise, easy-to-carry resource on pediatric critical care medicine, designed for frequent and quick reference at the bedside, providing solutions to questions and situations encountered in practice.

Hospital intensive care units have changed when and how we die--and not always for the better.

Hospital intensive care units have changed when and how we die--and not always for the better.

This is a practical manual for clinicians who take care of patients with concussions.

This is a practical manual for clinicians who take care of patients with concussions.

Anesthesia Emergencies contains relevant step-by-step information on how to detect, manage, and treat complications and emergencies during the perioperative period.

In recent years, neurocritical care has grown and matured as a subspecialty of Critical Care Medicine with the advent of new monitoring, diagnostic, and therapeutic capabilities.

In recent years, neurocritical care has grown and matured as a subspecialty of Critical Care Medicine with the advent of new monitoring, diagnostic, and therapeutic capabilities.

Brain death-the condition of a non-functioning brain, has been widely adopted around the world as a definition of death since it was detailed in a Report by an Ad Hoc Committee of Harvard Medical School faculty in 1968.

Quality and Safety in Anesthesia and Perioperative Care offers practical suggestions for improving quality of care and patient safety in the perioperative setting.

Quality and Safety in Anesthesia and Perioperative Care offers practical suggestions for improving quality of care and patient safety in the perioperative setting.

This book is the first of 4 books on the core principles of acute neurology.

This book is the first of 4 books on the core principles of acute neurology.

Patients suffering from movement disorders pose many challenges for the clinician, and even the most experienced of practitioners can arrive at the point where diagnostic, work-up, treatment, or prognostic thinking falters.

In any acute neurologic condition situations come up which generate questions about management.

In any acute neurologic condition situations come up which generate questions about management.

Prognostication of acute neurologic disease is a major task for neurohospitalists and neurointensivists.

Prognostication of acute neurologic disease is a major task for neurohospitalists and neurointensivists.

Core Principles of Acute Neurology is a series of short volumes that handles major topics not found in sufficient detail elsewhere and provides useful context.

Core Principles of Acute Neurology is a series of short volumes that handles major topics not found in sufficient detail elsewhere and provides useful context.

Delirium, stupor and coma are common clinical states that confront clinicians in almost every medical specialty.

Many hospital emergency departments are overcrowded and short-staffed, with a limited number of available hospital beds.

The authenticity of memories of childhood sexual abuse has become one of the major social controversies of the 1990's.

Despite the importance of the problem, strikingly little has been written about effective approaches to the treatment of individuals with mild to moderate brain injury.

Despite extensive documentation of postconcussion symptoms, the sequelae of mild head injury have not been fully appreciated until recent years.

Part of the "e;What Do I Do Now?

Part of the "e;What Do I Do Now?

What's in the Syringe?

A comprehensive guide to the Final FRCEM examination, OSCE Revision for the Final FRCEM covers over 100 topics in emergency medicine.