Guide to the essentials in emergency medicine / edited by Shirley Ooi, Peter Manning.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part 1. Common Presentations In Adult Patients -- 1. Altered mental state -- 2. Bleeding GIT -- 3. Bleeding, Vaginal, Abnormal -- 4. Blurring of vision -- 5. Breathlessness, acute -- 6. Diarrhoea and vomiting -- 7. Fever -- 8. Giddiness -- 9. Haemoptysis -- 10. Headache -- 11. Hyperventilation -- 12. Lower limb swelling -- 13. Pain, abdominal -- 14. Pain, chest, acute -- 15. Pain, joint, peripheral -- 16. Pain, low back -- 17. Pain, scrotal and penile -- 18. Palpitations -- 19. Poisoning, General Principles -- 20. Red eye -- 21. Seizure -- 22. Shock/hypoperfusion states -- 23. Stridor -- 24. Syncope -- 25. Trauma Multiple, Initial Management -- 26. Urinary retention, acute -- 27. Violent and psychotic patients -- -- Part 2. Specific Conditions -- -- Part 2A. Airway And Resuscitation -- 28. Airway Management/Rapid Sequence Intubation -- 29. Allergic reactions/Anaphylaxis -- 30. Cardiac arrest algorithms -- 31. Cardiogenic Shock -- 32. Neurogenic shock -- 33. Sepsis/septic shock -- -- Part 2B. Cardiovascular Emergencies -- 34. Aortic Emergencies -- 35. Bradydysrhythmias -- 36. Coronary syndromes, acute -- 37. Other Heart Conditions (Pericarditis, Myocarditis, Infective Endocarditis, Cardiomyophathy) -- 38. Heart failure, acute -- 39. Hypertensive Crises -- 40. Acute limb ischaemia -- 41. Pulmonary Embolism -- 42. Venous emergencies -- 43. Tachydysrhythmias -- -- Part 2C. Respiratory Emergencies -- 44. Asthma -- 45. Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) -- 46. Pneumonia, Community Acquired (CAP) -- 47. Pneumothorax -- 48. Respiratory Failure, Acute -- -- Part 2D. Gastrointestinal Emergencies -- 49. Acute Appendicitis -- 50. Hepatic encephalopathy, acute -- 51. Hepatobiliary Emergencies -- 52. Intestinal Obstruction -- 53. Ischaemic Bowel/Mesenteric Ischaemia -- 54. Pancreatitis, acute -- 55. Peptic Ulcer Disease/ Dyspepsia -- 56. Perianal Conditions -- -- Part 2E. Endocrine/Metabolic Emergencies -- 57. Acid Base Emergencies -- 58. Adrenal Insufficiency, acute -- 59. Fluid and Electrolyte Disorders -- 60. Diabetic Ketoacidosis (DKA) and Hyperosmolar Hyperglycaemic State (HHS) -- 61. Hypoglycaemia -- 62. Thyroid Emergencies -Thyroid Crisis and Myxoedema -- -- Part 2F. Renal And Genitourinary Emergencies -- 63. Renal Emergencies -- 64. Urinary Tract Infection -- 65. Urolithiasis -- -- Part 2G. Neurologic Emergencies -- 66. Meningitis -- 67. Migraine and Cluster Headache -- 68. Stroke -- 69. Subarachnoid Haemorrhage (SAH) -- 70. Temporal Arteritis -- 71. Transient Ischaemic Attack -- -- Part 2H. Infectious Diseases -- 72. Coping with Emerging Infectious Diseases of the 21st Century in the Emergency Department - A New Norm -- 73. Dengue Fever & Chikungunya Fever -- 74. Malaria -- 75. Needle Stick/Body Fluid Exposure -- 76. Tetanus and anti-tetanus prophylaxis -- -- Part 2I. Haematologic/Oncologic Emergencies -- 77. Administration of Blood Products in the EMD -- 78. Oncology Emergencies -- 79. Overwarfarinisation -- -- Part 2J. Dermatologic Emergencies -- 80. Dermatology in Emergency Care -- -- Part 2K. Geriatric Emergencies -- 81. Geriatric Emergencies -- -- Part 2L. Toxicology -- 82. Alcohol Intoxication & Poisoning with other alcohols -- 83. Poisoning, Benzodiazepine -- 84. Poisoning, Carbon Monoxide -- 85. Poisoning, Cyclic Antidepressants -- 86. Poisoning, Digoxin -- 87. Poisoning, Organophosphates -- 88. Poisoning, Paracetamol -- 89. Poisoning, Salicylates -- -- Part 2M. Toxicology (Including Bites) -- 90. Bites, Mammalian and Human -- 91. Bites, Snake -- -- Part 2N. Surgical & Orthopaedic Trauma/Infectious Emergencies -- 92. Crush Sydrome -- 93. Trauma, Abdominal -- 94. Trauma, Chest -- 95. Trauma, Head -- 96. Trauma and infections, Hand -- 97. Trauma, Lower Extremity -- 98. Trauma, Maxillofacial -- 99. Trauma , Paediatric (refer to 137) -- 100. Trauma, Pelvic -- 101. Trauma in Pregnancy -- 102. Trauma, Spinal Cord -- 103. Trauma, Upper Extremity -- 104. Wound Care & Management -- -- Part 2O. Ent Emergencies -- 105. Common ENT Emergencies -- -- Part 2P. Eye Emergencies -- 106. Blurring of vision and Red and Painful eye -- -- Part 2Q. Psychiatric Emergencies -- 107. ASSAULT (non-sexual) -- -- Part 2R. Obstetric And Gynaecologic Emergencies -- 108. Eclampsia -- 109. Ectopic Pregnancy -- 110. Emergency delivery of the newborn -- 111. Pelvic Inflammatory Disease (PID) -- -- Part 2S. Environmental Emergencies -- 112. Burn, Major -- 113. Burns, Minor -- 114. Diving Emergencies -- 115. Electrical and Lightning Injuries -- 116. Hyperthermia -- 117. Submersion Injuries -- -- Part 2T. Imaging -- 118. Emergency Ultrasound -- 119. Views of x-rays to order -- -- Part 2U. Pharmacology -- 120. Commonly Used Emergency Drugs in Adults -- 121. List of drugs to avoid in G6PD deficiency -- 122. Prescribing Pregnancy -- -- Part 2V. Paediatric Emergencies -- 123. Child, Abdominal pain -- 124. Child with breathlessness -- 125. Child/baby, crying -- 126. Child with diarrhoea -- 127. Child with fever -- 128. Child, fitting -- 129. Child, Vomiting -- 130. Paediatric Asthma -- 131. Bronchiolitis -- 132. Febrile Fit -- 133. Fluid Replacement in Paediatrics -- 134. Newborn Resuscitation in the ED -- 135. Non-accidental Injury in Paediatrics -- 136. Paediatric Drugs and Equipment -- 137. Trauma, Paediatric -- -- Part 2W. Miscellaneous Useful Information -- 138. Commonly Used Scoring Systems -- 139. Common Emergency Procedures -- 140. Pain Management -- 141. Procedural Sedation -- 142. Simple Statistics -- 143. Useful Formulae.

The first edition of the Guide to the Essentials in Emergency Medicine, co-edited by two prominent emergency physicians, Associate Professors Shirley Ooi and Peter Manning, with a combined total of 64 years of Emergency Medicine practice between them, was first published in Singapore in 2004. This book focuses on the practical management of the most life-threatening and common conditions encountered by emergency physicians. It is designed to offer a balanced viewpoint advocating the tenets of evidence-based medicine. This second edition preserves several of its predecessor's hallmark features. Easy-to-read format: clinical descriptions are presented succinctly and problems are introduced with the same symptom-based approach in Section One. Popular sections such as Caveats, covering the pitfalls likely to be encountered in medical practice, and Special Tips for GPs are retained. New features of this second edition include: twenty new chapters; thorough revision of the text for more content coverage, easier reading, and reflection of the latest evidence; reorganisation of Section Two into specific systems for ease of reading and revision for exams Inclusion of coloured photographs; and addition of further illustrations, ECGs, plain radiographs, CT scans and ultrasound images.