Textbook of Adult Emergency Medicine - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0443068194 ISBN 13: 9780443068195

Publisher: Churchill Livingstone, 2009

Synopsis

A major postgraduate textbook in emergency medicine, covering all the major topics that present to the trainee doctor in the emergency department.

• A comprehensive textbook of adult emergency medicine for trainee doctors - covers all the problems likely to present to a trainee in the emergency department.
• Chapters are short and concise, with key point boxes (called "Essentials") at the beginning.
• Also has boxes featuring controversial areas of treatment.
• Practical and clinically orientated.

• Major changes to resuscitation guidelines.
• Complete rewriting of ENT section.
• Significant updating of following topics - acute coronary syndrome management, trauma, sepsis management, imaging, arrhythmias.
• Expansion of administration section - especially patient safety.
• Changes to drug overdose sections in toxicology section.

About this title

About the Author:

Professor Tony Brown has written extensively in the medical literature, including a bestselling handbook on emergency medicine now in its seventh edition. He holds a conjoint academic teaching appointment at the University of Queensland School of Medicine, works full-time in clinical emergency medicine and is immediate past Editor-in-Chief of Emergency Medicine Australasia. He was awarded the inaugural Teaching Excellence Award 2001 at the Australasian College for Emergency Medicine; the Excellence in Clinical Teaching Award 2001 at the Royal Brisbane Hospital; and the Outstanding Teaching Award 2015 at the Royal Brisbane Clinical School, University of Queensland School of Medicine.

Review:

"A major postgraduate textbook in emergency medicine. A comprehensive textbook of adult emergency medicine for trainee doctors - covers all the problems likely to present to a trainee in the emergency department and all problems that are less likely to present in the emergency department. Chapters are short and concise with text boxes featuring controversial areas of treatment. I truly love this book; if emergency medicine is your interest then this book comes highly recommended." 3rd Year medical student, Edinburgh University, July 2004

About this edition

• Publisher: Churchill Livingstone
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0443068194
• ISBN 13: 9780443068195
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 1048
• Editor: Peter Cameron, George Jelinek, Anne-Maree Kelly, Lindsay Murray, Anthony F. T. Brown