Publisher's Synopsis
This essential text covers emergency medicine from the assessment of signs and symptoms through the process of clinical problem solving. Provides both an on-site and clinical perspective, including information on obtaining pre-hospital information, data gathering, data integration, differential diagnosis, hypotheses formulation and testing, decision guidelines, principles of management, disposition, and documentation. Covers both comon and catastrophic diseases, such as chest pain, syncope, wound care, anaphylaxis, sepsis, child abuse, stroke, abnormal vaginal bleeding, alcohol intoxication, and more.
