Presented in a user-friendly format, combining flowcharts and high-quality illustrations together for an easy-to-read experience, this fifth edition of The RCEM Lecture Notes: Emergency Medicine has been thoroughly revised to reflect recent advances in the field of emergency medicine and to give readers a comprehensive and highly accessible overview of the field.

The RCEM Lecture Notes: Emergency Medicine, Fifth Edition presents important 'need to know' information for all those involved in treating patients in an emergency setting. The text serves as an excellent starting point to support initial teaching on the subject and reference or revision at the end of a module, rotation, or final exams.

Contributions made by a variety of healthcare professionals with significant firsthand experience in the field, The RCEM Lecture Notes: Emergency Medicine contains information on:

Major trauma and injuries.
Burns, contamination, irradiation, and poisoning.
Acute medical, surgical and obstetric conditions relevant to emergency medicine.
Paediatric emergency medicine.
Mental health and medicolegal aspects of emergency medicine.

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Information

Publisher

Wiley-Blackwell

Year

2023

ISBN

9781119325840

Edition

Topic

Medicine

Subtopic

Emergency Medicine & Critical Care

Cover
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
List of contributors
Preface to the fifth edition
Preface to the fourth edition
Preface to the second edition
Preface to the first edition
About the Companion Website
Chapter 1 What every Emergency Physician needs to know
Chapter 2 Major trauma and multiple injuries
Chapter 3 Head injuries
Chapter 4 The neck and the back
Chapter 5 Facial injuries
Chapter 6 Injuries to the trunk
Chapter 7 The lower limb
Chapter 8 The upper limb
Chapter 9 The hand
Chapter 10 Burns, contamination and irradiation
Chapter 11 Cardiac arrest and cardiac dysrhythmias
Chapter 12 Chest pain
Chapter 13 Respiratory distress
Chapter 14 Collapse and sudden illness
Chapter 15 Poisoning
Chapter 16 Abdominal pain and GI problems
Chapter 17 Obstetric, gynaecological and genitourinary problems
Chapter 18 Children’s problems in the emergency department
Chapter 19 The disturbed patient
Chapter 20 Medicolegal aspects of emergency medicine
Chapter 21 Small wounds and localised infections
Chapter 22 Ophthalmic, ENT and facial conditions
Chapter 23 Global health
Index
EULA