The Oxford Handbook of Emergency Medicine provides practical, accessible advice on the wide range of situations that present to the emergency department. Precise and prescriptive, it gives up-to-date, step-by-step guidance on presentation, investigation, diagnosis, emergency treatment, and further referral for adult and paediatric patients.

Now in its fifth edition, the Oxford Handbook of Emergency Medicine is the essential rapid-reference guide to emergency medicine for everyone from junior doctors to specialist registrars, nurse practitioners, and paramedics. New and improved, the Handbook has been thoroughly revised throughout, with 100 extra illustrations and the latest guidelines and treatment advice, completely overhauled chapters on Medicine, Obstetrics and Gynaecology, and Paediatric emergencies, and new topics on treatment escalation, end-of-life care, and sepsis.

Clear and concise, extensively updated, and packed with a host of new X-rays to aid identification and treatment, this Handbook has everything you need to thrive in the demanding world of emergency medicine today.

Review from previous edition The Fourth Edition of the Oxford Handbook of Emergerncy Medicine is proof that good things come in small packages. This compact little powerhouse more than lives up to expectations established by earlier editions. It offers sound clinical guidance in an easily accessible format and would be a handy addition to the pockets of emergency medicine clinicians.

Autorentext
Jonathan P. Wyatt is Honorary Clinical Associate Professor at the University of Exeter, UK Robert G. Taylor is Consultant in Emergency Medicine at Royal Cornwall Hospital, Truro, UK Kerstin de Wit is Assistant Professor at McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada Emily J. Hotton is Clinical Research Fellow at Southmead Hospital and University of Bristol, UK

Klappentext

The Oxford Handbook of Emergency Medicine provides practical, accessible advice on the wide range of situations that present to the emergency department. Precise and prescriptive, it gives up-to-date, step-by-step guidance on presentation, investigation, diagnosis, emergency treatment, and further referral for adult and paediatric patients.

Zusammenfassung
The Oxford Handbook of Emergency Medicine provides practical, accessible advice on the wide range of situations that present to the emergency department. Precise and prescriptive, it gives up-to-date, step-by-step guidance on presentation, investigation, diagnosis, emergency treatment, and further referral for adult and paediatric patients.

Inhalt

• 1: General approach

• 2: Life-threatening emergencies

• 3: Medicine

• 4: Toxicology

• 5: Infectious diseases

• 6: Environmental emergencies

• 7: Analgesia and anaesthesia

• 8: Major trauma

• 9: Wounds, fractures, orthopaedics

• 10: Surgery

• 11: Ophthalmology

• 12: Ear, nose, and throat

• 13: Obstetrics and gynaecology

• 14: Psychiatry

• 15: Paediatric emergencies