Emergency medicine: a comprehensive study guide

This book 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.

Sect. One: Prehospital care -- Sect. Two: Disaster preparedness -- Sect. Three: Resuscitative problems and techniques -- Sect. Four: Shock -- Sect. Five: Analgesia, anesthesia, and sedation -- Sect. Six: Emergency wound management -- Sect. Seven: Cardiovascular disease -- Sect. Eight: Pulmonary emergencies -- Sect. Nine: Gastrointestinal emergencies -- Sect. Ten: Renal and genitourinary disorders -- Sect. Eleven: Gynecology and obstetrics -- Sect. Twelve: Pediatrics -- Sect. Thirteen: Infectious diseases -- Sect. Fourteen: Toxicology and pharmacology -- Sect. Fifteen: Environmental injuries -- Sect. Sixteen: Emergency medicine in unique environments -- Sect. Seventeen: Endocrine emergencies -- Sect. Eighteen: Hematologic and oncologic emergencies -- Sect. Nineteen: Neurology -- Sect. Twenty: Eye, ear, nose, and oral surgery -- Sect. Twenty-One: Disorders of the skin -- Sect. Twenty-Two: Trauma -- Sect. Twenty-Three: Injuries to the bones, joints, and soft tissue -- Sect. Twenty-Four: Nontraumatic musculosketetal disorders -- Sect. Twenty-Five: Psychosocial disorders -- Sect. Twenty-Six: Abuse and assault -- Sect. Twenty-Seven: Principles of imaging -- Sect. Twenty-Eight: Special s…