Current diagnosis & treatment emergency medicine
By: edited by C. Keith Stone, Roger L. Humphries.
Contributors: Stone, C. Keith.; Humphries, Roger L.
Edition: 6th ed.
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 1043
ISBN-13: 9780071443197
Subjects: Emergency medicine; Emergency medicine -- Diagnosis; Emergencies -- Handbooks; Emergency Medicine -- methods -- Handbooks; Médecine d'urgence -- Guides, manuels, etc; Diagnostics en médecine d'urgence -- Guides, manuels, etc; Medicina de emergência (diagnóstico;tratamento); Medicina De EmergÊncia (MÉtodos)
Genres: Handbooks; Guides, manuels, etc
Other titles: Current diagnosis and treatment emergency medicine; Emergency medicine; Current emergency diagnosis & treatment.
Notes: "A Lange medical book."

Rev. ed. of: Current emergency diagnosis & treatment. 5th ed. c2004.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Section I; title: Special aspects of emergency medicine --; title: Approach to the emergency department patient  -- T. Russell Jones; title: Prehospital emergency services  -- Margaret Strecker-McGraw and Robert D. Greenbergons; title: Nuclear, biologic and chemical agents; weapons of mass destruction  -- David L. Morgan; title: Multicasualty incidents and disasters  -- Kevin A. Rodriguez; title: Legal aspects of emergency care  -- Charles A. Eckerline, Jr.; title: Emergency procedures  -- William Randall Partin -- Section II; title: Management of common emergency problems --; title: Basic and advanced cardiac life support  -- Eric C. Goshorn and Salvator J. Vicario; title: Compromised airway  -- Rebecca C. Bowers and Jeffrey D. Weaver; title: Shock  -- David A. Smith; title: The multiply injured patient  -- Julia Martin and Lisa Gwin; title: Respiratory distress  -- David Smith; title: Chest pain  -- Timothy G. Price; title: Abdominal pain  -- Melissa Platt, Samir Doshi and Eric Telfer; title: Gastrointestinal bleeding ; title: Alicia Haywood, Tammy L. Ray, and Timothy G. Price --; title: Coma  -- James E. Morris; title: Syncope  -- C. Keith Stone; title: Seizures  -- Derek R. Cooney, and Keith Stone; title: Headache  -- Ross Tobleman and C. Keith Stone; title: Arthritis and back pain  -- Terry C. Hermance and L. Richard Boggs -- Section III; title: Trauma emergencies --; title: Head injuries  -- Roger L. Humphries; title: Maxillofacial and neck trauma  -- Troy T. Pope, and Troy C. Rock; title: Chest trauma  -- Seth Stearley and L. Richard Boggs; title: Abdominal trauma  -- Roger L. Humphries; title: Genitourinary trauma  -- Roger Humphries; title: Vertebral column & spinal cord trauma  -- James E. Cleveland and Troy C. Rock; title: Orthopedic emergencies  -- Royce Coleman and Aaron Collins; title: Hand trauma  -- Raymond G. Hart; title: Wound care  -- David A. Fritz -- Section IV; title: Nontrauma emergencies --; title: Eye emergencies  -- Robert D. Greenberg and Jerry Castleberry; title: Emergency disorders of the ear, nose, sinuses, oropharynx, and mouth  -- Timothy C. Stallard; title: Pulmonary emergencies  -- David Smith; title: Cardiac emergencies  -- Roger L. Humphries; title: Cardiac arrhythmias  -- B.C. Bollinger and Joseph Heidenreich; title: Gastrointestinal emergencies  -- Roger L. Humphries; title: Neurologic emergencies  -- C. Keith Stone and Derek R. Cooney; title: Obstetric and gynecologic emergencies and rape  -- Melissa Platt & Mary Nan Mallory; title: Genitourinary emergencies  -- Charles F. McCuskey; title: Vascular emergencies  -- David A. Fritz; title: Hematologic emergencies  -- C. Keith Stone, Robert D. Greenberg, and James E. Morris; title: Infectious disease emergencies  -- Jon Jaffe and James E. Morris; title: Metabolic and endocrine emergencies  -- Shane Frederick & Daniel F. Danzl; title: Fluid, electrolyte, and acid-base emergencies  -- James E. Morris; title: Burns and smoke inhalation  -- David A. Fritz; title: Disorders due to physical & environmental agents  -- Rebecca C. Bowers and Timothy K. Anderson; title: Poisoning  -- David L. Morgan and Douglas J. Borys; title: Dermatologic emergencies  -- Ben H. Chlapek; title: Psychiatric emergencies  -- Gregory Hall; title: Pediatric emergencies  -- Eric Yazel and Sandra Herr; title: Index.