Emergency Medicine: Concepts and Clinical PracticeIn an emergency, you only have one chance...and usually very little time...to make the right decision. How can you be certain you have the knowledge you need? Through six editions, Rosen s Emergency Medicine has set the standard in emergency medicine, offering unparalleled comprehensiveness, clarity, and authority. Now, the seventh edition places the latest knowledge at your fingertips, while a more streamlined format makes it easy to find the exact information you seek more rapidly and conveniently than ever before.Presents more than 1,200 exquisite color illustrations that accurately capture the real-life appearance of patient symptoms and diagnostic imaging findings, helping you to reach a definitive diagnosis more easily. Includes "Cardinal Presentations" sections that provide quick and easy guidance on differential diagnosis and directed testing. Presents greatly expanded coverage of emergency ultrasound and emergency gynecological disorders to place the latest knowledge at your fingertips, as well as state-of-the-art coverage of emergency ultrasound, management of sepsis, new airway devices, updated protocols for adult and pediatric cardiac arrest, STEMI and NSTEMI/ACS, DVT and PTE, and much, much more. Features a streamlined format that focuses on the most need-to-know information so you can find answers more quickly. |
Contents
PART II Trauma | 242 |
PART III Medicine and Surgery | 844 |
Front cover | 1334 |
Half title page | i |
Rosens Emergency Medicine | iii |
Copyright page | iv |
Dedication page | v |
How this Medical Textbook Should Be Viewed by the Practicing Clinician and the Judicial System | vi |
Preface to the First Edition | xxv |
Acknowledgments | xxvii |
Emeritus editors page | xxix |
Table of Contents | xxxi |
PART III Medicine and Surgery | 1333 |
PART IV Environment andToxicology | 1859 |
PART V Special Populations | 2082 |
PART VI Emergency MedicalServices | 2460 |
Contributors | vii |
Preface to the Seventh Edition | xxiii |
PART VII The Practice of Emergency Medicine | 2506 |
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