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Textbook of Adult Emergency Medicine

Name: Textbook of Adult Emergency Medicine
Author: Peter Cameron

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Paperback, blz. | Engels

Elsevier Health Sciences | 2025

ISBN13: 9780443248993

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Elsevier Health Sciences e druk, 2025 9780443248993

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The Sixth Edition of this well-known and authoritative textbook provides comprehensive, up-to-date coverage of Adult Emergency Medicine. It is an invaluable guide for trainees and other health professionals, including nurse specialists and paramedics, offering concise and practical guidance based on the latest best practices and evidence-based guidelines. Originally published over 25 years ago this title has been regularly updated to keep up with current practice.

All major topics encountered in the emergency department are covered and have been updated to reflect recent changes in this constantly evolving specialty. Chapters are concise and practical, with key points and controversial areas highlighted.

In addition, the textbook addresses complex topics such as death and dying, managing challenging patients, ethics, providing testimony, and domestic violence. It also covers governance, training, research, and organisational subjects like disaster planning and response, humanitarian emergencies, and refugee medicine. This content provides a framework for understanding the complexities of managing major emergency care systems.

This textbook remains a vital resource for anyone involved in the practice of emergency medicine.Practical guide– covers everything you are likely to come acrossClinically orientated and thoroughly updated by a team of expert editorsConcise and readable chapters – accessible for trainee doctors as well as emergency medicine nursing specialties and those working in urgent care unitsKey points and highlighted controversial areas support additional learningSupports image interpretation in emergency medicineNew to this edition Fully refreshed and updated to reflect the latest evidence and practiceNew content on resuscitation, critical care, trauma, cardiology, pandemic preparedness and infection control, emergency care in humanitarian crises, wellness, resilience, and performance in emergency medicineImages updated to reflect new technologyAdditional images available in the eBook

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ISBN13:9780443248993

Taal:Engels

Bindwijze:Paperback

Uitgever:Elsevier Health Sciences

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Section 1 Resuscitation 1.1 Basic life support 1.2 Advanced life support Section 2 Critical care 2.1 Airway and ventilation management 2.2 Oxygen therapy 2.3 Haemodynamic monitoring 2.4 Shock overview 2.5 Sepsis and septic shock 2.6 Arterial blood gases 2.7 Cerebral resuscitation after cardiac arrest 2.8 Anaphylaxis Section 3 Trauma 3.1 Trauma overview 3.2 Traumatic brain injury 3.3 Spinal trauma 3.4 Facial trauma 3.5 Abdominal trauma 3.6 Chest trauma 3.7 Limb trauma 3.8 Radiology in major trauma 3.9 Trauma in pregnancy 3.10 Wound care and repair 3.11 Burns 3.12 Major haemorrhage Section 4 Orthopaedic emergencies 4.1 Injuries of the shoulder 4.2 Dislocations of the elbow 4.3 Fractures of the humerus 4.4 Fractures of the forearm and carpal bones 4.5 Hand injuries 4.6 Pelvic injuries 4.7 Hip injuries 4.8 Femur injuries 4.9 Knee injuries 4.10 Tibial and fibular injuries 4.11 Ankle joint injuries 4.12 Foot injuries 4.13 Osteomyelitis Section 5 Cardiovascular emergencies 5.1 Chest pain 5.2 Acute coronary syndromes 5.3 Assessment and management of acute pulmonary oedema 5.4 Arrhythmias 5.5 Pulmonary embolism 5.6 Pericarditis, cardiac tamponade and myocarditis 5.7 Heart valve emergencies 5.8 Peripheral vascular disease 5.9 Hypertension 5.10 Aortic dissection 5.11 Aneurysms Section 6 Respiratory emergencies 6.1 Upper respiratory tract 6.2 Asthma 6.3 Community-acquired pneumonia 6.4 Influenza 6.5 Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease 6.6 Pneumothorax 6.7 Pleural effusion 6.8 Haemoptysis Section 7 Digestive emergencies 7.1 Dysphagia 7.2 Approach to abdominal pain 7.3 Bowel obstruction 7.4 Hernia 7.5 Gastroenteritis 7.6 Haematemesis and melaena 7.7 Peptic ulcer disease and gastritis 7.8 Biliary tract disease 7.9 Acute pancreatitis 7.10 Acute appendicitis 7.11 Inflammatory bowel disease 7.12 Acute liver failure 7.13 Haematochezia 7.14 Perianal conditions Section 8 Neurology emergencies 8.1 Headache 8.2 Stroke and transient ischaemic attacks 8.3 Subarachnoid haemorrhage 8.4 Altered conscious state 8.5 Seizures 8.6 Syncope and vertigo 8.7 Weakness Section 9 Infectious disease emergencies 9.1 Approach to undifferentiated fever in adults 9.2 Meningitis 9.3 Septic arthritis 9.4 Urinary tract infections 9.5 Skin and soft-tissue infections 9.6 COVID-19 9.7 Needlestick injuries and related blood and body fluid exposures 9.8 Hepatitis 9.9 Human immunodeficiency virus and acquired immune deficiency syndrome 9.10 Sexually transmitted infections 9.11 Tropical infectious diseases Section 10 Genitourinary emergencies 10.1 Acute kidney injury 10.2 The acute scrotum 10.3 Renal colic Section 11 Endocrine emergencies 11.1 Diabetes mellitus and hypoglycaemia: an overview 11.2 Diabetic ketoacidosis and hyperosmolar, hyperglycaemic state 11.3 Thyroid and adrenal emergencies Section 12 Metabolic emergencies 12.1 Acid–base disorders 12.2 Electrolyte disturbances Section 13 Haematology emergencies 13.1 Anaemia 13.2 Neutropaenia 13.3 Thrombocytopaenia 13.4 Haemophilia 13.5 Blood and blood components Section 14 Rheumatology and musculoskeletal emergencies 14.1 Rheumatological emergencies 14.2 Monoarthritis 14.3 Polyarthritis 14.4 Musculoskeletal and soft-tissue emergencies Section 15 Dermatology emergencies 15.1 Emergency dermatology Section 16 Ocular emergencies 16.1 Ocular emergencies Section 17 Dental emergencies 17.1 Dental emergencies Section 18 Ear, nose and throat emergencies 18.1 Ear, nose and throat emergencies Section 19 Obstetrics and gynaecology emergencies 19.1 Pelvic pain 19.2 Pelvic inflammatory disease 19.3 Abnormal vaginal bleeding in the nonpregnant patient 19.4 Pain and bleeding in early pregnancy – miscarriage and ectopic pregnancy 19.5 Bleeding after the first trimester of pregnancy 19.6 Pre-eclampsia 19.7 Emergency birth and complications Section 20 Psychiatric emergencies 20.1 Mental state assessment 20.2 Distinguishing medical from psychiatric causes of mental disorder presentations 20.3 Suicidality and self-harm 20.4 Depression 20.5 Psychosis 20.6 Pharmacological management of the aroused patient Section 21 Challenging situations 21.1 Death and dying 21.2 Sexual assault 21.3 Family violence 21.4 Alcohol-related illness 21.5 The challenging patient 21.6 End-of-life decision-making and provision of palliative care 21.7 Organ and tissue donation Section 22 Pain relief 22.1 General pain management 22.2 Local anaesthesia 22.3 Emergency department procedural sedation Section 23 Emergency imaging 23.1 Emergency department ultrasound 23.2 Computed tomography scanning in emergency medicine 23.3 Magnetic resonance imaging in emergency medicine Section 24 Environmental emergencies 24.1 Heat-related illness 24.2 Cold-related illness 24.3 Dysbarism 24.4 Radiation incidents 24.5 Drowning 24.6 Electric shock and lightning injury 24.7 High-altitude illness Section 25 Toxicology emergencies 25.1 Approach to the poisoned patient 25.2 Cardiovascular drugs 25.3 Antipsychotic drugs 25.4 Antidepressant drugs 25.5 Lithium 25.6 Paracetamol 25.7 Salicylate 25.8 Antidiabetic drugs 25.9 Colchicine 25.10 Caffeine and theophylline 25.11 Iron 25.12 Drugs of abuse 25.13 Cyanide 25.14 Hydrofluoric acid 25.15 Anticholinesterase insecticides 25.16 Herbicides 25.17 Ethanol and other ‘toxic’ alcohols 25.18 Carbon monoxide 25.19 Anticonvulsants 25.20 Toxidromes 25.21 Chloroquine 25.22 Opioids 25.23 Oral anticoagulants Section 26 Toxinology emergencies 26.1 Snakebite 26.2 Exotic snakebite 26.3 Spider bite 26.4 Marine injury, envenomation and poisoning 26.5 Hymenoptera stings Section 27 Academic emergency medicine 27.1 Research methodology 27.2 Writing for publication 27.3 Principles of medical education 27.4 Teaching medical students emergency medicine 27.5 Postgraduate emergency medicine teaching and simulation Section 28 Emergency medicine and the law 28.1 Mental health and the law: the Australian and New Zealand perspectives 28.2 The coroner 28.3 Consent and competence 28.4 Privacy and confidentiality 28.5 Ethics in emergency medicine Section 29 Emergency and medical systems 29.1 Prehospital emergency medicine 29.2 Retrieval 29.3 Medical issues in disasters 29.4 Triage 29.5 Emergency care in a humanitarian crisis 29.6 Emergency department short stay units 29.7 Overcrowding 29.8 Rapid and other hyperacute response systems in the emergency department 29.9 Public health and social emergency medicine 29.10 Indigenous health in the emergency department setting Section 30 Administration 30.1 Emergency department staffing 30.2 Emergency department layout 30.3 Quality assurance and quality improvement 30.4 Business planning 30.5 Accreditation, specialist training and recognition in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand 30.6 Specialist training and recognition in emergency medicine in the United Kingdom 30.7 Complaints 30.8 Patient safety 30.9 Wellness, resilience and performance in emergency medicine

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