TY  - BOOK
AU  - Fulde,Gordian W.O.
TI  - Emergency medicine: the principles of practice 
SN  - 0729538761
AV  - RC86.8 .E44 2009
U1  - 616.025 22
PY  - 2009///]
CY  - Sydney
PB  - Churchill Livingstone Elsevier
KW  - Emergency medicine
KW  - Methodology
KW  - Emergency Treatment
N1  - 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
ER  -