Emergency Medicine: A Comprehensive Study Guide 6th Edition

Author: Judith E. Tintinalli
Published: October 2003
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional
ISBN: 0071388753
Hardcover Book
Number of Pages: 2016

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The essential emergency medicine reference! 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, and 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.

"considered by most in the discipline to be a bible of emergency medicine" —Journal of Family Medicine, review of fourth edition.

Endorsed by the American College of Emergency Physicians, and more clinically relevant than ever, the sixth edition of EMERGENCY MEDICINE continues as the #1 selling reference for clinical practice and exam prep. It's brief, readable, and clinically-focused chapters provide quick, evidence-based guidance for differential diagnosis, ED treatment, and disposition.

Table of Contents:

Contributors
Preface
Acknowledgments
Sect. 1 Prehospital Care 1
Sect. 2 Disaster Preparedness 27
Sect. 3 Resuscitative Problems and Techniques 61
Sect. 4 Shock 219
Sect. 5 Analgesia, Anesthesia, and Sedation 257
Sect. 6 Emergency Wound Management 287
Sect. 7 Cardiovascular Disease 333
Sect. 8 Pulmonary Emergencies 437
Sect. 9 Gastrointestinal Emergencies 487
Sect. 10 Renal and Genitourinary Disorders 593
Sect. 11 Gynecology and Obstetrics 647
Sect. 12 Pediatrics 727
Sect. 13 Infectious Diseases 909
Sect. 14 Toxicology and Pharmacology 1015
Sect. 15 Environmental Injuries 1175
Sect. 16 Emergency Medicine in Unique Environments 1251
Sect. 17 Endocrine Emergencies 1283
Sect. 18 Hematologic and Oncologic Emergencies 1319
Sect. 19 Neurology 1369
Sect. 20 Eye, Ear, Nose, Throat, and Oral Surgery 1449
Sect. 21 Disorders of the Skin 1507
Sect. 22 Trauma 1537
Sect. 23 Injuries to the Bones, Joints, and Soft Tissue 1651
Sect. 24 Nontraumatic Musculoskeletal Disorders 1769
Sect. 25 Psychosocial Disorders 1807
Sect. 26 Abuse and Assault 1847
Sect. 27 Principles of Imaging 1865
Sect. 28 Special Situations 1891
Index 1919

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