Emergencies in clinical medicine / edited by Piers Page and Greg Skinner

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Page, Piers.

Skinner, Greg.

Series:

Emergencies in-- series.

Emergencies series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Medical emergencies--Handbooks, manuals, etc.

Medical emergencies.

Emergency medicine.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (457 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book is an easy-to-use guide to the management of common medical emergencies. Emergencies nearly always present first to the junior doctor, either as a result of direct observation on the ward, or a phone call from nursing staff when on call. The key to their management is timely recognition and intervention. This book gives the junior doctor and senior medical student the confidence to do this. The text covers emergencies from both a problem-based and disease-based approach,with the book being divided into two sections - presentations and diseases. Cross-referencing between these two sec

Contents:

Contents; Contributors; Symbols and abbreviations; 1 The Basics; Section 1; 2 Presentations; Section 2; 3 Cardiology; 4 Respiratory; 5 Endocrine; 6 Gastroenterology; 7 Renal and urology; 8 Haematology, oncology and infectious diseases; 9 Neurology and neurosurgery; 10 Orthopaedics, rheumatology and dermatology; 11 Surgery; 12 Clinical biochemistry; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-19-959757-X

1-283-57981-2

9786613892263

0-19-154781-6

OCLC:

801363522