Emergency Medicine: A Comprehensive Study Guide

Description

Emergency medicine, is the medical speciality concerned with caring for undifferentiated, unscheduled patients with illnesses or injuries requiring immediate medical attention. Emergency physicians generally practice in hospital emergency departments, pre-hospital settings via emergency medical services, and intensive care units, but may also work in primary care settings such as urgent care clinics. This is a unique book which emphasizes the clinical evidence-based approach to emergency medicine. Based on the contents of this book, it provides practical guidelines to the management and diagnosis of patients with illness or injuries requiring immediate medical attention. It includes information on an expanded number of conditions and the new biological therapies used in the treatment of the diseases and injuries. It contains excellent figures, tables and photographs. The book has been compiled with different chapters based on the original research work by eminent academicians and scientists. The main aim of this book is to help the emergency physicians and students so that they can understand well this field of medicine.