Emergency medicine : the principles of practice / edited by Gordian W. O. Fulde.

Previous ed.: 2004.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Cardiopulmonary resuscitation -- Securing the airway, ventilation and procedural sedation -- Resuscitation and emergency procedures -- Diagnostic imaging in emergency patients -- Ultrasound in emergency medicine -- The approach to the patient with chest pain, dyspnoea or haemoptysis -- Acute coronary syndromes -- Respiratory emergencies: the acutely breathless patient -- Acute pulmonary oedema -- Pulmonary emboli and venous thromboses -- Shock -- Clinical electrocardiography and arrhythmia management -- Pain management in the emergency department -- Trauma -- Neurosurgical emergencies -- Aortic and vascular emergencies -- Orthopaedic principles: fractures and dislocations -- Hand injuries and care -- Urological trauma and emergencies -- Burns -- Patient transport and retrieval -- Mass casualty, chemical, biological and radiological hazard contingencies -- The seriously ill patient: tips and traps -- Neurological emergencies -- Gastrointestinal emergencies -- Endocrine emergencies -- Metabolic disorders -- Poisonings, overdosage, drugs and alcohol -- Drowning -- Envenomation -- Electrical injuries -- Hypothermia and hyperthermia -- Childhood emergencies -- Geriatric care -- Emergency gynaecology -- Ophthalmic emergencies -- Ear, nose and throat emergencies -- Management of dental emergencies -- Psychiatric presentations -- Dermatological presentations to emergency -- Infectious diseases -- The immunosuppressed patient -- Emergency department haematology -- Rural and indigenous emergencies -- Advanced nursing roles -- Working with IT and the general practitioner -- Emergency department administration, legal matters and quality care -- Student's guide to the emergency department.