Emergency medicine
Subtitle: a comprehensive study guide
By: editor-in-chief, Judith E. Tintinalli ; co-editors, Gabor D. Kelen, J. Stephan Stapczynski.
Contributors: Tintinalli, Judith E.; Kelen, Gabor D.; Stapczynski, J. Stephan.
Edition: 6th ed.
Publisher: McGraw-Hill, Medical Pub. Division
Published: 2004
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 2043
Subjects: Emergency medicine.; Emergency Medicine.; Emergencies.
Description: This book covers the gamut of emergency medicine practice in brief, clinically focused chapters. New to this edition are chapters on bioterroism and weapons of mass destruction, pharmacology of antimicrobials, antifungals, and antivirals, principles of drug interactions, endocarditis, and abdominal and pelvic pain in the non-pregnant patient. Pharmacologic considerations, tables of vital differential diagnoses, and observation criteria throughout are new features reflecting developments in this dynamic specialty.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.