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Textbook of Adult Emergency Medicine,
Edition
6
Editors:
Edited by Peter Cameron, MBBS, MD, FACEM, Biswadev Mitra, MBBS MHSM PhD FACEM, Kim Hansen, MBBS(HonsI) FACEM, Mark Little, MBBS, FACEM, MPH&TM DTM&H IDHA and Conor Deasy, MB DCH Dip IMC Dip Tox FRCEM PhD
Publication Date:
04 Nov 2025
The Sixth Edition of this well-known and authoritative textbook provides comprehensive, up-to-date coverage of Adult Emergency Medicine. It is an invaluable guide for trainees and other health professionals, including nurse specialists and paramedics, offering concise and practical guidance based on the latest best practices and evidence-based guidelines. Originally published over 25 years ago this title has been regularly updated to keep up with current practice.
All major topics encountered in the emergency department are covered and have been updated to reflect recent changes in this constantly evolving specialty. Chapters are concise and practical, with key points and controversial areas highlighted.
In addition, the textbook addresses complex topics such as death and dying, managing challenging patients, ethics, providing testimony, and domestic violence. It also covers governance, training, research, and organisational subjects like disaster planning and response, humanitarian emergencies, and refugee medicine. This content provides a framework for understanding the complexities of managing major emergency care systems.
This textbook remains a vital resource for anyone involved in the practice of emergency medicine.
All major topics encountered in the emergency department are covered and have been updated to reflect recent changes in this constantly evolving specialty. Chapters are concise and practical, with key points and controversial areas highlighted.
In addition, the textbook addresses complex topics such as death and dying, managing challenging patients, ethics, providing testimony, and domestic violence. It also covers governance, training, research, and organisational subjects like disaster planning and response, humanitarian emergencies, and refugee medicine. This content provides a framework for understanding the complexities of managing major emergency care systems.
This textbook remains a vital resource for anyone involved in the practice of emergency medicine.
Key Features
- Practical guide– covers everything you are likely to come across
- Clinically orientated and thoroughly updated by a team of expert editors
- Concise and readable chapters – accessible for trainee doctors as well as emergency medicine nursing specialties and those working in urgent care units
- Key points and highlighted controversial areas support additional learning
- Supports image interpretation in emergency medicine
- Fully refreshed and updated to reflect the latest evidence and practice
- New content on resuscitation, critical care, trauma, cardiology, pandemic preparedness and infection control, emergency care in humanitarian crises, wellness, resilience, and performance in emergency medicine
- Images updated to reflect new technology
- Additional images available in the eBook
About the author
Edited by Peter Cameron, MBBS, MD, FACEM, Emergency Physician, Alfred Health Emergency Service, Australia; Biswadev Mitra, MBBS MHSM PhD FACEM, Emergency Physician, Alfred Health Emergency Service, Australia; Kim Hansen, MBBS(HonsI) FACEM, Director, Virtual Emergency Department, Metro North Hospital and Health Service, Medical Director, Critical Care, Women's and Children's, Service Line, Redcliffe Hospital, Australia; Mark Little, MBBS, FACEM, MPH&TM DTM&H IDHA, Emergency Physician and Clinical Toxicologist, Department of Emergency Medicine, Cairns Hospital, Cairns, Australia and Conor Deasy, MB DCH Dip IMC Dip Tox FRCEM PhD, Clinical Director, Emergency and Acute Care, Cork University Hospital (CUH) /Professor, Emergency Medicine, CUH /South Trauma Network Clinical Lead / Clinical Lead, Major Trauma Audit, NOCA, Ireland
Section 1 Resuscitation
1.1 Basic life support
Sameer A. Pathan
1.2 Advanced life support
Sameer A. Pathan
Section 2 Critical care
2.1 Airway and ventilation management
Amit Maini, Christopher James Groombridge and Peter Fritz
2.2 Oxygen therapy
Bridget Devaney
2.3 Haemodynamic monitoring
Craig Hore and Robert Hislop
2.4 Shock overview
Gerry McCarthy
2.5 Sepsis and septic shock
Alan Mark Watts
2.6 Arterial blood gases
Anthony Holley
2.7 Cerebral resuscitation after cardiac arrest
Stephen Bernard
2.8 Anaphylaxis
Anthony FT Brown and Ben McKenzie
Section 3 Trauma
3.1 Trauma overview
Gerard Michael O'Reilly and Peter Cameron
3.2 Neurotrauma
Gerard Michael O'Reilly and Peter Cameron
3.3 Spinal trauma
Harm van de pas
3.4 Facial trauma
James Kim and Dane Chalkley
3.5 Abdominal trauma
Garry J. Wilkes
3.6 Chest trauma
Mark Fitzgerald, Jeremy Stevens and Robert Gocentas
3.7 Limb trauma
Amit Maini and Christopher James Groombridge
3.8 Radiology in major trauma
Anthony Phillip Joseph and Brett Lurie
3.9 Trauma in pregnancy
Katie Waldman
3.10 Wound care and repair
Cecil Samuel Johnny
3.11 Burns
Anthony Holley and Biswadev Mitra
3.12 Massive transfusion
Biswadev Mitra and Anthony Holley
Section 4 Orthopaedic emergencies
4.1 Injuries of the shoulder
Stephen Gilmartin
4.2 Dislocations of the elbow
Timothy H Rainer and Chi Hung Cheng
4.3 Fractures of the humerus
Timothy H Rainer and Chi Hung Cheng
4.4 Fractures of the forearm and carpal bones
Stephen Gilmartin
4.5 Hand injuries
Peter Freeman and Arthur Hennessy
4.6 Pelvic injuries
Eanna Mac Suibhne
4.7 Hip injuries
Eanna Mac Suibhne
4.8 Femur injuries
michael dunphy
4.9 Knee injuries
Dean fulford and Samuel Arthur Medway
4.10 Tibia and fibula injuries
Dean fulford and Samuel Arthur Medway
4.11 Ankle joint injuries
Dean fulford and Samuel Arthur Medway
4.12 Foot injuries
Dean fulford and Samuel Arthur Medway
4.13 Osteomyelitis
Arthur Hennessy
Section 5 Cardiovascular emergencies
5.1 Chest pain
Rohan Laging
5.2 Acute coronary syndromes
Rohan Laging and Matthew Adamson
5.3 Assessment and management of acute pulmonary oedema
James Foley
5.4 Arrhythmias
Andrew Fu Wah Ho, Gayathri Devi Nadarajan and Marcus Ong
5.5 Pulmonary embolism
David Mountain
5.6 Pericarditis, cardiac tamponade and myocarditis
C Geraldine McMahon
5.7 Heart valve emergencies
Kevin KC Hung and Colin A. Graham
5.8 Peripheral vascular disease
Kevin KC Hung and Colin A. Graham
5.9 Hypertension
Francis O'Keeffe and Deirdre McElwee
5.10 Aortic dissection
Eoin Fogarty
5.11 Aneurysms
Adrian Murphy
Section 6 Respiratory emergencies
6.1 Upper respiratory tract
Kenneth Ooi
6.2 Asthma
Ahilan Parameswaran and Anne-Maree Kelly
6.3 Community-acquired pneumonia
Gordon Carter, Mark Putland and Karen Robins
6.4 Influenza and emerging respiratory infections
Nicola Walsham and Amanda Rojek
6.5 Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
Eli Dabscheck and Matthew Donnan
6.6 Pneumothorax
Xiu Qing Lee and Anne-Maree Kelly
6.7 Pleural effusion
Shammi Ramlakhan
6.8 Haemoptysis
David McCreary and Lucie Cocker
Section 7 Digestive emergencies
7.1 Dysphagia
Ien Ly
7.2 Approach to abdominal pain
Rebecca Day and James Alister Fordyce
7.3 Bowel obstruction
Don Campbell
7.4 Hernia
Gonzalo Aguirrebarrena
7.5 Gastroenteritis
Arun Ilancheran
7.6 Haematemesis and melaena
Kevin KC Hung and Colin A. Graham
7.7 Peptic ulcer disease and gastritis
Win Sen Kuan, Shirley Ooi and Boon Yuru
7.8 Biliary tract disease
David McCreary and Binula Wickramarachchi
7.9 Acute pancreatitis
Kenneth Heng
7.10 Acute appendicitis
Shahina Braganza
7.11 Inflammatory bowel disease
Jayashanki Perera
7.12 Acute liver failure
John M. Ryan and John Cronin
7.13 Haematochezia
Francis Lee
7.14 Perianal conditions
Michael R. Augello
Section 8 Neurology emergencies
8.1 Headache
Frank Michael Thomas Leader
8.2 Stroke and transient ischaemic attacks
Mark Morphett
8.3 Subarachnoid haemorrhage
Karen Harris and Jessica O'Connell
8.4 Altered conscious state
Ruth Hew
8.5 Seizures
Garry J. Wilkes
8.6 Syncope and vertigo
Rosslyn Hing
8.7 Weakness
Tim Green and Eileen M. Rogan
Section 9 Infectious disease emergencies
9.1 Approach to undifferentiated fever in adults
Arun Ilancheran
9.2 Meningitis
Andrew Harris Singer
9.3 Septic arthritis
Christopher Carman
9.4 Urinary tract infection
Sean Arendse
9.5 Skin and soft-tissue infections
Cecil Samuel Johnny
9.6 Covid
Allen C. Cheng
9.7 Needlestick injuries and related blood and body fluid exposure
Carl Luckhoff
9.8 Hepatitis
Stuart Stapleton
9.9 Human immunodeficiency virus and acquired immune deficiency syndrome
Sean Arendse
9.10 Sexually transmitted infections
Jane Terris and Ahammed Shaheen Karanath
9.11 Tropical infectious diseases
Sander Manders
Section 10 Genitourinary emergencies
10.1 Acute kidney injury
Nicholas Adams
10.2 The acute scrotum
David McCreary and Binula Wickramarachchi
10.3 Renal colic
Sean Arendse
Section 11 Endocrine emergencies
11.1 Diabetes mellitus and hypoglycaemia: an overview
Anthony FT Brown
11.2 Diabetic ketoacidosis and hyperosmolar, hyperglycaemic state
Anthony FT Brown
11.3 Thyroid and adrenal emergencies
Andrew Maclean
Section 12 Metabolic emergencies
12.1 Acid-base disorders
Alan Gault
12.2 Electrolyte disturbances
Daniel Mankarios and Myles Sri-Ganeshan
Section 13 Haematology emergencies
13.1 Anaemia
Mark Little
13.2 Neutropaenia
Mark Little
13.3 Thrombocytopaenia
Mark Little
13.4 Haemophilia
Sean Arendse
13.5 Blood and blood products
Sean Arendse and Biswadev Mitra
Section 14 Rheumatology and musculoskeletal emergencies
14.1 Rheumatological emergencies
Rushab C. Shah, Michelle C. Papandony, Flavia Cicuttini and Michael J. Gingold
14.2 Monoarthritis
Rushab C. Shah, Michelle C. Papandony, Flavia Cicuttini and Michael J. Gingold
14.3 Polyarthritis
Rushab C. Shah, Michelle C. Papandony, Flavia Cicuttini and Michael J. Gingold
14.4 Musculoskeletal and soft tissue emergencies
Anthony Tzannes
Section 15 Dermatology emergencies
15.1 Emergency dermatology
Ryan De Cruz, George Varigos and Vanessa Morgan
Section 16 Ocular emergencies
16.1 Ocular emergencies
Nicholas Enright, Thomas G. Hardy and Mark J. Walland
Section 17 Dental emergencies
17.1 Dental emergencies
Ian Donald Hewson
Section 18 ENT emergencies
18.1 Ear, nose and throat emergencies
carmel crock crock and Nadine de Alwis
Section 19 Obstetrics and gynaecology emergencies
19.1 Pelvic pain
Alka Kothari and KIM HANSEN
19.2 Pelvic inflammatory disease
Erica Kreismann and Gar Ming Chan
19.3 Abnormal vaginal bleeding in the non-pregnant patient
Erica Kreismann and Gar Ming Chan
19.4 Ectopic pregnancy and bleeding in early pregnancy
Yvette Bassin
19.5 Bleeding after the first trimester of pregnancy
Fatima Rahman
19.6 Pre-eclampsia and eclampsia
Greer Wilson and Cate Addis
19.7 Emergency delivery and complications
Ben Shepherd and Tahnee Dunlop
Section 20 Psychiatric emergencies
20.1 Mental state assessment
Blair Hobbs
20.2 Distinguishing medical from psychiatric causes of mental disorder presentations
Shaun Baxter
20.3 Deliberate self-harm/suicide
Sara Mackenzie and Ezra Limm
20.4 Depression
Evan Symons
20.5 Psychosis
Evan Symons
20.6 Pharmacological management of the aroused patient
John Spencer
Section 21 Challenging situations
21.1 Death and dying
William Lukin and Carol Douglas
21.2 Sexual assault
Jeremy Stevens
21.3 Family violence
Evan Symons, Pieter De Villiers Smit, Melissa Bernstein and Catherine Jane Smith
21.4 Alcohol-related illness
Timothy Cook
21.5 The challenging patient
Georgina Ann Phillips, Kirsten Cassidy and Jennie Hutton
21.6 End of life decision making and palliative care
William Lukin and Carol Douglas
21.7 Organ and tissue donation
Martin John Dutch and Dashiell Gantner
Section 22 Pain relief
22.1 General pain management
Adrian Murphy
22.2 Local anaesthesia
Anthony FT Brown and Tor Nikolai Oyvin Ercleve
22.3 Emergency department procedural sedation
Greg Treston
Section 23 Emergency imaging
23.1 Emergency Ultrasound
Vijay Manivel, Patrick John Feeny and Elissa Kennedy-Smith
23.2 Computed tomography scanning in emergency medicine
Andrew Staib and Craig Hacking
23.3 Magnetic resonance imaging in emergency medicine
Tim Green
Section 24 Environmental emergencies
24.1 Heat-related illness
Nickolas Bennett
24.2 Cold-related illness
Nickolas Bennett
24.3 Dysbarism
Bridget Devaney
24.4 Radiation incidents
Paul David Mark
24.5 Drowning
David Mountain
24.6 Electric shock and lightning injury
Daniel M. Fatovich
24.7 High-altitude illness
Nickolas Bennett
Section 25 Toxicology emergencies
25.1 Approach to the poisoned patient
Alan Gault
25.2 Cardiovascular drugs
Betty Shuk Han Chan and Angela L. Chiew
25.3 Antipsychotic drugs
Dino Druda
25.4 Antidepressant drugs
Shaun Greene
25.5 Lithium
Jessamine Soderstrom
25.6 Paracetamol
Andis Graudins, Anselm Wong and Emma Nixon
25.7 Salicylate
Digby Green and ruth young
25.8 Antidiabetic drugs
Jason Armstrong
25.9 Colchicine
Dushan Jayaweera and Bashir Chakar
25.10 Caffeine and Theophylline
Gopi Mann and Satish Mitter
25.11 Iron
Yit Hung Leang
25.12 Drugs of abuse
Kerry Anne Hoggett and Owen Andrew McWilliam
25.13 Cyanide
George Braitberg
25.14 Hydrofluoric acid
Sam Alfred and Alastair Ward
25.15 Pesticides
Darren M. Roberts and Una Nic Ionmhain
25.16 Herbicides
Katherine Isoardi
25.17 Ethanol and other toxic alcohols
Mohan Raghavan and Ben Weber
25.18 Carbon monoxide
Nicholas Buckley and Jonathan James Baird-Gunning
25.19 Anticonvulsants
Joe-Anthony Rotella, Anselm Wong and Brian O'Riordan
25.20 Toxidromes
Nazila Jamshidi and Una Nic Ionmhain
25.21 Chloroquine
Michael A. Downes
25.22 Opioids
Angela L. Chiew and Therese Becker
25.23 Oral anticoagulants
Robert Dowsett and Shannon Baso
Section 26 Toxinology emergencies
26.1 Snakebite
Geoffrey Isbister
26.2 Exotic snakebite
Julian White
26.3 Spider bite
Geoffrey Isbister
26.4 Marine injury, envenomation and poisoning
Jamie Seymour
26.5 Hymenoptera stings
Annabel Somerville
Section 27 Academic emergency medicine
27.1 Research methodology
Biswadev Mitra, Gerard Michael O'Reilly, Paul Jennings and Peter Cameron
27.2 Writing for publication
Anne-Maree Kelly
27.3 Principles of medical education
Debbie Paltridge
27.4 Teaching medical students emergency medicine
Rohan Church
27.5 Postgraduate emergency medicine teaching and simulation
Victoria Brazil and David McCreary
Section 28 Emergency medicine and the law
28.1 Mental health and the law: the Australian and New Zealand perspectives
Georgina Ann Phillips and Alexandra Archer
28.2 The coroner: the Australian and UK perspectives
Jane Terris
28.3 Consent and competence - the Australasian and UK perspectives
Jane Terris and George Braitberg
28.4 Privacy and confidentiality
Biswadev Mitra and Pieter De Villiers Smit
28.5 Ethics in emergency medicine
Michael W. Ardagh
Section 29 Emergency and medical systems
29.1 Prehospital emergency medicine
Paul Jennings and Stephen Bernard
29.2 Retrieval
Tahnee Dunlop, Erica Kreismann and Charles Wendell-Smith
29.3 Medical issues in disasters
Jonathan Abrahams, Richard J. Brennan and David Bradt
29.4 Triage
Drew Richardson
29.5 Emergency care in a humanitarian crisis
Angela Jackson and Mark Little
29.6 Emergency Department Short Stay Units
Carl Luckhoff
29.7 Overcrowding
Drew Richardson
29.8 Rapid response systems and the emergency department
Viet Tran and Charley Greentree
29.9 Public health and emergency medicine
Diana Egerton-Warburton, Jennie Hutton and Lai Heng Heng Foong
Section 30 Administration
30.1 Emergency department staffing
Julia Morphet and Eleanor Junckerstorff
30.2 Emergency department layout
Matthew WG Chu
30.3 Quality assurance and quality improvement
KIM HANSEN
30.4 Business planning
Pieter De Villiers Smit
30.5 Accreditation, specialist training and recognition in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand
James Collier and Barry Gunn
30.6 Specialist training and recognition in emergency medicine in the United Kingdom
Jason Long and Simon Carley
30.7 Complaints
Fatima Rahman
30.8 Patient safety
carmel crock crock
30.9 Wellness, resilience andperformance in emergencymedicine
Bethany Boulton, Melanie Rule and Alex Markwell
1.1 Basic life support
Sameer A. Pathan
1.2 Advanced life support
Sameer A. Pathan
Section 2 Critical care
2.1 Airway and ventilation management
Amit Maini, Christopher James Groombridge and Peter Fritz
2.2 Oxygen therapy
Bridget Devaney
2.3 Haemodynamic monitoring
Craig Hore and Robert Hislop
2.4 Shock overview
Gerry McCarthy
2.5 Sepsis and septic shock
Alan Mark Watts
2.6 Arterial blood gases
Anthony Holley
2.7 Cerebral resuscitation after cardiac arrest
Stephen Bernard
2.8 Anaphylaxis
Anthony FT Brown and Ben McKenzie
Section 3 Trauma
3.1 Trauma overview
Gerard Michael O'Reilly and Peter Cameron
3.2 Neurotrauma
Gerard Michael O'Reilly and Peter Cameron
3.3 Spinal trauma
Harm van de pas
3.4 Facial trauma
James Kim and Dane Chalkley
3.5 Abdominal trauma
Garry J. Wilkes
3.6 Chest trauma
Mark Fitzgerald, Jeremy Stevens and Robert Gocentas
3.7 Limb trauma
Amit Maini and Christopher James Groombridge
3.8 Radiology in major trauma
Anthony Phillip Joseph and Brett Lurie
3.9 Trauma in pregnancy
Katie Waldman
3.10 Wound care and repair
Cecil Samuel Johnny
3.11 Burns
Anthony Holley and Biswadev Mitra
3.12 Massive transfusion
Biswadev Mitra and Anthony Holley
Section 4 Orthopaedic emergencies
4.1 Injuries of the shoulder
Stephen Gilmartin
4.2 Dislocations of the elbow
Timothy H Rainer and Chi Hung Cheng
4.3 Fractures of the humerus
Timothy H Rainer and Chi Hung Cheng
4.4 Fractures of the forearm and carpal bones
Stephen Gilmartin
4.5 Hand injuries
Peter Freeman and Arthur Hennessy
4.6 Pelvic injuries
Eanna Mac Suibhne
4.7 Hip injuries
Eanna Mac Suibhne
4.8 Femur injuries
michael dunphy
4.9 Knee injuries
Dean fulford and Samuel Arthur Medway
4.10 Tibia and fibula injuries
Dean fulford and Samuel Arthur Medway
4.11 Ankle joint injuries
Dean fulford and Samuel Arthur Medway
4.12 Foot injuries
Dean fulford and Samuel Arthur Medway
4.13 Osteomyelitis
Arthur Hennessy
Section 5 Cardiovascular emergencies
5.1 Chest pain
Rohan Laging
5.2 Acute coronary syndromes
Rohan Laging and Matthew Adamson
5.3 Assessment and management of acute pulmonary oedema
James Foley
5.4 Arrhythmias
Andrew Fu Wah Ho, Gayathri Devi Nadarajan and Marcus Ong
5.5 Pulmonary embolism
David Mountain
5.6 Pericarditis, cardiac tamponade and myocarditis
C Geraldine McMahon
5.7 Heart valve emergencies
Kevin KC Hung and Colin A. Graham
5.8 Peripheral vascular disease
Kevin KC Hung and Colin A. Graham
5.9 Hypertension
Francis O'Keeffe and Deirdre McElwee
5.10 Aortic dissection
Eoin Fogarty
5.11 Aneurysms
Adrian Murphy
Section 6 Respiratory emergencies
6.1 Upper respiratory tract
Kenneth Ooi
6.2 Asthma
Ahilan Parameswaran and Anne-Maree Kelly
6.3 Community-acquired pneumonia
Gordon Carter, Mark Putland and Karen Robins
6.4 Influenza and emerging respiratory infections
Nicola Walsham and Amanda Rojek
6.5 Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
Eli Dabscheck and Matthew Donnan
6.6 Pneumothorax
Xiu Qing Lee and Anne-Maree Kelly
6.7 Pleural effusion
Shammi Ramlakhan
6.8 Haemoptysis
David McCreary and Lucie Cocker
Section 7 Digestive emergencies
7.1 Dysphagia
Ien Ly
7.2 Approach to abdominal pain
Rebecca Day and James Alister Fordyce
7.3 Bowel obstruction
Don Campbell
7.4 Hernia
Gonzalo Aguirrebarrena
7.5 Gastroenteritis
Arun Ilancheran
7.6 Haematemesis and melaena
Kevin KC Hung and Colin A. Graham
7.7 Peptic ulcer disease and gastritis
Win Sen Kuan, Shirley Ooi and Boon Yuru
7.8 Biliary tract disease
David McCreary and Binula Wickramarachchi
7.9 Acute pancreatitis
Kenneth Heng
7.10 Acute appendicitis
Shahina Braganza
7.11 Inflammatory bowel disease
Jayashanki Perera
7.12 Acute liver failure
John M. Ryan and John Cronin
7.13 Haematochezia
Francis Lee
7.14 Perianal conditions
Michael R. Augello
Section 8 Neurology emergencies
8.1 Headache
Frank Michael Thomas Leader
8.2 Stroke and transient ischaemic attacks
Mark Morphett
8.3 Subarachnoid haemorrhage
Karen Harris and Jessica O'Connell
8.4 Altered conscious state
Ruth Hew
8.5 Seizures
Garry J. Wilkes
8.6 Syncope and vertigo
Rosslyn Hing
8.7 Weakness
Tim Green and Eileen M. Rogan
Section 9 Infectious disease emergencies
9.1 Approach to undifferentiated fever in adults
Arun Ilancheran
9.2 Meningitis
Andrew Harris Singer
9.3 Septic arthritis
Christopher Carman
9.4 Urinary tract infection
Sean Arendse
9.5 Skin and soft-tissue infections
Cecil Samuel Johnny
9.6 Covid
Allen C. Cheng
9.7 Needlestick injuries and related blood and body fluid exposure
Carl Luckhoff
9.8 Hepatitis
Stuart Stapleton
9.9 Human immunodeficiency virus and acquired immune deficiency syndrome
Sean Arendse
9.10 Sexually transmitted infections
Jane Terris and Ahammed Shaheen Karanath
9.11 Tropical infectious diseases
Sander Manders
Section 10 Genitourinary emergencies
10.1 Acute kidney injury
Nicholas Adams
10.2 The acute scrotum
David McCreary and Binula Wickramarachchi
10.3 Renal colic
Sean Arendse
Section 11 Endocrine emergencies
11.1 Diabetes mellitus and hypoglycaemia: an overview
Anthony FT Brown
11.2 Diabetic ketoacidosis and hyperosmolar, hyperglycaemic state
Anthony FT Brown
11.3 Thyroid and adrenal emergencies
Andrew Maclean
Section 12 Metabolic emergencies
12.1 Acid-base disorders
Alan Gault
12.2 Electrolyte disturbances
Daniel Mankarios and Myles Sri-Ganeshan
Section 13 Haematology emergencies
13.1 Anaemia
Mark Little
13.2 Neutropaenia
Mark Little
13.3 Thrombocytopaenia
Mark Little
13.4 Haemophilia
Sean Arendse
13.5 Blood and blood products
Sean Arendse and Biswadev Mitra
Section 14 Rheumatology and musculoskeletal emergencies
14.1 Rheumatological emergencies
Rushab C. Shah, Michelle C. Papandony, Flavia Cicuttini and Michael J. Gingold
14.2 Monoarthritis
Rushab C. Shah, Michelle C. Papandony, Flavia Cicuttini and Michael J. Gingold
14.3 Polyarthritis
Rushab C. Shah, Michelle C. Papandony, Flavia Cicuttini and Michael J. Gingold
14.4 Musculoskeletal and soft tissue emergencies
Anthony Tzannes
Section 15 Dermatology emergencies
15.1 Emergency dermatology
Ryan De Cruz, George Varigos and Vanessa Morgan
Section 16 Ocular emergencies
16.1 Ocular emergencies
Nicholas Enright, Thomas G. Hardy and Mark J. Walland
Section 17 Dental emergencies
17.1 Dental emergencies
Ian Donald Hewson
Section 18 ENT emergencies
18.1 Ear, nose and throat emergencies
carmel crock crock and Nadine de Alwis
Section 19 Obstetrics and gynaecology emergencies
19.1 Pelvic pain
Alka Kothari and KIM HANSEN
19.2 Pelvic inflammatory disease
Erica Kreismann and Gar Ming Chan
19.3 Abnormal vaginal bleeding in the non-pregnant patient
Erica Kreismann and Gar Ming Chan
19.4 Ectopic pregnancy and bleeding in early pregnancy
Yvette Bassin
19.5 Bleeding after the first trimester of pregnancy
Fatima Rahman
19.6 Pre-eclampsia and eclampsia
Greer Wilson and Cate Addis
19.7 Emergency delivery and complications
Ben Shepherd and Tahnee Dunlop
Section 20 Psychiatric emergencies
20.1 Mental state assessment
Blair Hobbs
20.2 Distinguishing medical from psychiatric causes of mental disorder presentations
Shaun Baxter
20.3 Deliberate self-harm/suicide
Sara Mackenzie and Ezra Limm
20.4 Depression
Evan Symons
20.5 Psychosis
Evan Symons
20.6 Pharmacological management of the aroused patient
John Spencer
Section 21 Challenging situations
21.1 Death and dying
William Lukin and Carol Douglas
21.2 Sexual assault
Jeremy Stevens
21.3 Family violence
Evan Symons, Pieter De Villiers Smit, Melissa Bernstein and Catherine Jane Smith
21.4 Alcohol-related illness
Timothy Cook
21.5 The challenging patient
Georgina Ann Phillips, Kirsten Cassidy and Jennie Hutton
21.6 End of life decision making and palliative care
William Lukin and Carol Douglas
21.7 Organ and tissue donation
Martin John Dutch and Dashiell Gantner
Section 22 Pain relief
22.1 General pain management
Adrian Murphy
22.2 Local anaesthesia
Anthony FT Brown and Tor Nikolai Oyvin Ercleve
22.3 Emergency department procedural sedation
Greg Treston
Section 23 Emergency imaging
23.1 Emergency Ultrasound
Vijay Manivel, Patrick John Feeny and Elissa Kennedy-Smith
23.2 Computed tomography scanning in emergency medicine
Andrew Staib and Craig Hacking
23.3 Magnetic resonance imaging in emergency medicine
Tim Green
Section 24 Environmental emergencies
24.1 Heat-related illness
Nickolas Bennett
24.2 Cold-related illness
Nickolas Bennett
24.3 Dysbarism
Bridget Devaney
24.4 Radiation incidents
Paul David Mark
24.5 Drowning
David Mountain
24.6 Electric shock and lightning injury
Daniel M. Fatovich
24.7 High-altitude illness
Nickolas Bennett
Section 25 Toxicology emergencies
25.1 Approach to the poisoned patient
Alan Gault
25.2 Cardiovascular drugs
Betty Shuk Han Chan and Angela L. Chiew
25.3 Antipsychotic drugs
Dino Druda
25.4 Antidepressant drugs
Shaun Greene
25.5 Lithium
Jessamine Soderstrom
25.6 Paracetamol
Andis Graudins, Anselm Wong and Emma Nixon
25.7 Salicylate
Digby Green and ruth young
25.8 Antidiabetic drugs
Jason Armstrong
25.9 Colchicine
Dushan Jayaweera and Bashir Chakar
25.10 Caffeine and Theophylline
Gopi Mann and Satish Mitter
25.11 Iron
Yit Hung Leang
25.12 Drugs of abuse
Kerry Anne Hoggett and Owen Andrew McWilliam
25.13 Cyanide
George Braitberg
25.14 Hydrofluoric acid
Sam Alfred and Alastair Ward
25.15 Pesticides
Darren M. Roberts and Una Nic Ionmhain
25.16 Herbicides
Katherine Isoardi
25.17 Ethanol and other toxic alcohols
Mohan Raghavan and Ben Weber
25.18 Carbon monoxide
Nicholas Buckley and Jonathan James Baird-Gunning
25.19 Anticonvulsants
Joe-Anthony Rotella, Anselm Wong and Brian O'Riordan
25.20 Toxidromes
Nazila Jamshidi and Una Nic Ionmhain
25.21 Chloroquine
Michael A. Downes
25.22 Opioids
Angela L. Chiew and Therese Becker
25.23 Oral anticoagulants
Robert Dowsett and Shannon Baso
Section 26 Toxinology emergencies
26.1 Snakebite
Geoffrey Isbister
26.2 Exotic snakebite
Julian White
26.3 Spider bite
Geoffrey Isbister
26.4 Marine injury, envenomation and poisoning
Jamie Seymour
26.5 Hymenoptera stings
Annabel Somerville
Section 27 Academic emergency medicine
27.1 Research methodology
Biswadev Mitra, Gerard Michael O'Reilly, Paul Jennings and Peter Cameron
27.2 Writing for publication
Anne-Maree Kelly
27.3 Principles of medical education
Debbie Paltridge
27.4 Teaching medical students emergency medicine
Rohan Church
27.5 Postgraduate emergency medicine teaching and simulation
Victoria Brazil and David McCreary
Section 28 Emergency medicine and the law
28.1 Mental health and the law: the Australian and New Zealand perspectives
Georgina Ann Phillips and Alexandra Archer
28.2 The coroner: the Australian and UK perspectives
Jane Terris
28.3 Consent and competence - the Australasian and UK perspectives
Jane Terris and George Braitberg
28.4 Privacy and confidentiality
Biswadev Mitra and Pieter De Villiers Smit
28.5 Ethics in emergency medicine
Michael W. Ardagh
Section 29 Emergency and medical systems
29.1 Prehospital emergency medicine
Paul Jennings and Stephen Bernard
29.2 Retrieval
Tahnee Dunlop, Erica Kreismann and Charles Wendell-Smith
29.3 Medical issues in disasters
Jonathan Abrahams, Richard J. Brennan and David Bradt
29.4 Triage
Drew Richardson
29.5 Emergency care in a humanitarian crisis
Angela Jackson and Mark Little
29.6 Emergency Department Short Stay Units
Carl Luckhoff
29.7 Overcrowding
Drew Richardson
29.8 Rapid response systems and the emergency department
Viet Tran and Charley Greentree
29.9 Public health and emergency medicine
Diana Egerton-Warburton, Jennie Hutton and Lai Heng Heng Foong
Section 30 Administration
30.1 Emergency department staffing
Julia Morphet and Eleanor Junckerstorff
30.2 Emergency department layout
Matthew WG Chu
30.3 Quality assurance and quality improvement
KIM HANSEN
30.4 Business planning
Pieter De Villiers Smit
30.5 Accreditation, specialist training and recognition in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand
James Collier and Barry Gunn
30.6 Specialist training and recognition in emergency medicine in the United Kingdom
Jason Long and Simon Carley
30.7 Complaints
Fatima Rahman
30.8 Patient safety
carmel crock crock
30.9 Wellness, resilience andperformance in emergencymedicine
Bethany Boulton, Melanie Rule and Alex Markwell
Title Reviews
Reviews of the previous edition:
"The combination of desk-bound hard copy with the portability and expanded content of the ‘e-book’ that moves the fourth edition from the ‘you should have this’ of the third edition to the next level of desirability and utility." --Emergency Medicine Australasia
"As an experienced ED nurse and Emergency Nurse Practitioner, I found the book fascinating and could not put it down. The authors and editors of this text have succeeded in producing a comprehensive guide to Emergency Medicine which would be a valuable resource for any Emergency Department." --International Emergency Nursing
"it has established itself as one of the leading reference textbooks in the field of adult emergency medicine in Australasia. It is now a mature reference textbook, which is a credit to the editors and the contributors." --Journal of Military and Veterans’ Health
"This is an excellent evidence based textbook suitable for exam preparation or for reference, which takes you through the complete management of all emergency medicine conditions. I would strongly recommend it to all emergency medicine trainees." --Injury: international Journal of Care of the Injured
"The combination of desk-bound hard copy with the portability and expanded content of the ‘e-book’ that moves the fourth edition from the ‘you should have this’ of the third edition to the next level of desirability and utility." --Emergency Medicine Australasia
"As an experienced ED nurse and Emergency Nurse Practitioner, I found the book fascinating and could not put it down. The authors and editors of this text have succeeded in producing a comprehensive guide to Emergency Medicine which would be a valuable resource for any Emergency Department." --International Emergency Nursing
"it has established itself as one of the leading reference textbooks in the field of adult emergency medicine in Australasia. It is now a mature reference textbook, which is a credit to the editors and the contributors." --Journal of Military and Veterans’ Health
"This is an excellent evidence based textbook suitable for exam preparation or for reference, which takes you through the complete management of all emergency medicine conditions. I would strongly recommend it to all emergency medicine trainees." --Injury: international Journal of Care of the Injured
ISBN:
9780443248993
Page Count:
1008
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