Manual of emergency medicine / edited by Jon L. Jenkins, G. Richard Braen.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Jenkins, Jon L.

Braen, G. Richard.

Series:

Lippincott Manual Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Emergency medicine--Handbooks, manuals, etc.

Emergency medicine.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (696 p.)

Edition:

Fifth edition.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Thoroughly updated for its Fifth Edition, this best-selling Spiral® Manual is the most user-friendly quick reference available in emergency medicine. In an easy-to-scan outline format with key terms boldfaced, the book offers practical guidance for diagnosis and management of all types of emergencies. Lists of possible causes of symptoms lead readers rapidly to appropriate information. Chapters are organized by body system and extensively cross-referenced to make material easy to locate. This edition includes new guidelines for advanced cardiac life support (ACLS) and new information on disaster medicine and terrorism preparedness, thrombolytic therapy for stroke and heart attack, and alternative therapies.

Contents:

""CONTENTS""; ""CONTRIBUTING AUTHORS""; ""PREFACE""; ""ACKNOWLEDGMENTS""; ""I. CARDIOPULMONARY ARREST""; ""1. CARDIOPULMONARY RESUSCITATION ""

""2. RAPID SEQUENCE INTUBATION""""II. TRAUMA""; ""3. INITIAL ASSESSMENT OF THE MULTIPLE TRAUMA PATIENT""; ""4. HEAD, NECK, AND FACIAL TRAUMA""

""5. EYE AND PERIORBITAL TRAUMA"""6. CHEST TRAUMA""; ""7. ABDOMINAL TRAUMA""; ""8. PELVIC TRAUMA""; ""9. GENITOURINARY TRAUMA""

""10. EXTREMITY TRAUMA""""11. TRAUMA IN PREGNANCY""; ""III. EYE, EAR, NOSE, AND THROAT DISORDERS""; ""12. EAR PAIN""; ""13. EPISTAXIS""

""14. FACIAL PAIN ATRAUMATIC""15. HOARSENESS""; ""16. SORE THROAT""; ""17. RED EYE""; ""18. VISUAL DISTURBANCES DOUBLE VISION""

""IV. RESPIRATORY DISORDERS""

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes index.

ISBN:

1-4698-7702-3

OCLC:

908076113