Current Emergency Diagnosis & Treatment [antikvár]

Preface This fourth edition of Current Emergency Diagnosis Treatment continues its problem-oriented approach to emergency management problems. It provides the emergency practitioner with ready information needed to both diagnose and treat life-threatening problems rapidly and also to organize the approach to the patient in the emergency setting. OUTSTANDING FEATURES Like all Lange medical books, CEDT provides a concise yet comprehensive source of current, clear, and correct information. As editors and practicing emergency physicians, we have tried to ensure that each chapter reflects the needs and realities of day-to-day practice. Because of the book's practical orientation, basic science and pathophysiologic principles are emphasized only when they are germane to management. Likewise, discussion of management is generally limited to those measures customarily performed in the emergency department. INTENDED AUDIENCE This text is specifically designed for physicians, residents, and medical students who are providing emergency care. It will also be useful to emergency department nurses and emergency medical technicians. ORGANIZATION CEDT's organization is priority-based and problem-oriented. In actual emergency practice, the patient presents with a problem, and the diagnosis may, at first, be unknown. Because the emergency physician's evaluation and treatment is initially problem-oriented, this fact is reflected in the table of contents. Chapters are grouped in order of presenting clinical management problems, with the most life-threatening first. Next are traumatic emergencies, followed by nontraumatic emergencies. The book concludes with a comprehensive reference chapter of emergency problems. NEW TO THIS EDITION • A new chapter organization that emphasizes the priority-based, problem-oriented approach to emergency evaluation and management. • Updates throughout. • A completely new chapter on emergency airway management by Julia Nathan, MD, University of California School of Medicine, San Francisco. • A completely new and expanded chapter on pediatric emergencies by Ronald A. Dieckmann, MD, and Kevin Coulter, MD, both from the University of California School of Medicine, San Francisco.