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Emergency Medicine
The Principles of Practice
- 6th Edition - June 28, 2013
- Authors: Sascha Fulde, Gordian W. O. Fulde
- Language: English
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 7 2 9 5 - 8 3 3 3 - 6
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 7 2 9 5 - 8 1 4 6 - 2
The ultimate emergency medicine textbook from the renowned Professor Gordian Fulde now in a new edition. Emergency Medicine 6e presents evidence-based clinical manage… Read more
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Request a sales quoteThe ultimate emergency medicine textbook from the renowned Professor Gordian Fulde now in a new edition.
Emergency Medicine 6e
presents evidence-based clinical management and treatment advice for emergency medicine students and practitioners in Australasia. The vast range of topics include paediatric, geriatric, gynaecology, psychiatric, dental, rural and Indigenous presentations, ensuring readers are well prepared for any eventuality in the Emergency Department.This outstanding text combines expertise and experience with fully up-to-date content. It is authored by Professor Gordian Fulde, Emergency Department director at Sydney’s St Vincent's Hospital, with contributions from Dr Sascha Fulde and over 60 other notable emergency medicine clinicians.
Readers will gain a solid understanding of effective procedural and management skills in the ED. Practical tips relate to: patient transport and retrieval; seriously ill patients; advanced nursing roles; general practitioners; working with IT; administration, legal matters, governance and quality care; and interns and students in the emergency department.
The ideal complement to hands-on emergency medicine training, this new edition of Emergency Medicine also prepares readers to apply key emergency medicine skills to unique incidents such as mass casualty and chemical, biological and radiological hazard contingencies.
Topics included in this edition of Emergency Medicine include:
• securing the airway
• resuscitation
• arrhythmia management
• pain management
• imaging
• dermatology
• trauma
• poisoning
• envenomation
• overdose
- Coverage of important controversies with evidence based recommendations.
- Editor comments contained in relevant chapters to provide clinical tips and advice for practice.
- Increased coverage of topical issues such as deep vein thrombosis (economy class syndrome) and street drugs.
- Practical rapid reference appendix.
- Detailed glossary and index.
Junior Medical Officers/final year medical students; emergency medicine clinicians; GPs
1. Cardiopulmonary resuscitation2. Securing the airway and ventilation: Resuscitation procedures3. Resuscitation and emergency procedures4. Ultrasound in emergency medicine5. The patient with chest pain, dyspnoea or haemoptysis6. Acute Myocardial infarction7. Respiratory emergencies, acute breathlessness8. Acute pulmonary oedema9. Pulmonary embolis and venous thrombosis10. Shock11. Clinical Electrocardiology and arrhythmia management12. Trauma13. Neurosurgical emergencies14. Aortic and vascular emergencies15. Orthopaedic principles, fractures and dislocations16. Hand injuries and care17. Urological emergencies18. Burns19. Pain control and analgesia20. Patient transport and retrieval21. Mass casualty, chemical, biological and radiological hazard contingencies 22. Neurology23. Sick patients and tips24. Gastrointestinal emergencies25. Poisoning, overdosage and alcohol26. Drowning27. Envenomation28. Electrical injuries29. Hypothermia, hyperthermia30. Childhood emergencies31. Geriatric care32. Emergency gynaecology33. Endocrine emergencies34. Metabolic disorders35. Ophthalmic emergencies36. Ear, nose and throat emergencies37. Dental emergencies38. Mental health presentations39. Dermatological presentations to emergency40. Infectious diseases41. The immunocompromised patient42. Haematology43. Diagnostic imaging44. Rural emergencies, indigenous or remote emergency attendances45. Advanced nursing roles46. Working with IT and the General Practitioner47. Quality emergency care and administration48. Students guide to an emergency term
- Language: English
- Edition: 6
- Published: June 28, 2013
- Imprint: Churchill Livingstone
- eBook ISBN: 9780729583336
- eBook ISBN: 9780729581462
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Sascha Fulde
Affiliations and expertise
Emergency Specialist, St Vincent’s Hospital,
Sutherland Hospital, Sydney, NSW
Royal North Shore Hospital, St Leonards, NSW
Senior Lecturer, University of New South WalesGF
Gordian W. O. Fulde
Affiliations and expertise
Director of Emergency The Sydney Hospital, Sydney, NSW
Stream Director, Critical Care, South Eastern Sydney Local
Health Care District
Professor, Emergency Medicine, Notre Dame and
New South Wales Universities
Former Director, Emergency, St. Vincent's Hospital,
Sydney, NSW