Harwood Nuss Clinical Practice Of Emergency Medicine

Organized for easy reference, this comprehensive, concise, and clinically focused text covers all aspects of emergency medicine. Chapters follow a consistent, structured format—clinical presentation, differential diagnosis, evaluation, management, and disposition with highlighted critical interventions and common pitfalls. In this edition, the Pain and Pain Management section is now at the front of the book, since a large percentage of emergency department patients present with pain-related complaints. The Trauma section now follows the High-Risk Chief Complaint section. A new two-color design will help readers find critical elements of each chapter easily. A companion Website will include the fully searchable text, more than 400 self-assessment questions with answers, and additional images and tables.

Harwood-Nuss' Clinical Practice of Emergency Medicine presents a clinically focused and evidence-based summary of emergency medicine. Chapters are templated to include the clinical presentation, differential diagnosis, evaluation, management and disposition, with highlighted critical interventions and common pitfalls. Management and disposition are especially critical in the emergency department, and their emphasis is unique to Harwood-Nuss. Often, a diagnosis can not be made, given the constraints of an ED evaluation; thus, effecive management of the patient, with or without a confirmed diagnosis, is key. Also distinct to Harwood-Nuss is the High-Risk Chief Complaints section, which covers the key presentations in the ED: chest pain, abdominal pain, shortness of breath, altered mental status. When patients present in the ED, they don't present with a known diagnosis; this chapter walks the physician through possible differential diagnoses and the evaluation and management of these patients so that they can be stabilized and treated quickly and effectively.

"This seventh edition of Harwood---Nuss' Clinical Practice of Emergency Medicine continues in the tradition of its predecessors as an authoritative, up-to-date, and concise single-volume resource that encompasses essentially all areas of emergency medicine"--

Recommended in the Brandon/Hill selected list of print books and journals for the small medical library - April 2003Formatted for easy use while on the move, The Clinical Practice of Emergency Medicine, Third Edition is a comprehensive reference that offers quick access to clinically relevant material. Each chapter covers clinical presentation, diagnosis, evaluation, management and disposition. With emphasis on both medical and managerial essentials, this book covers everything from geriatrics to sociocultural violence, MRIs to pain management.

Fully-updated edition of this award-winning textbook, arranged by presenting complaints with full-color images throughout. For students, residents, and emergency physicians.

A detailed step-by-step guide to 173 emergency department procedures. With 1,700 original illustrations, this quick-access reference features single-chapter coverage of each procedure.