Bookeditors, Kevin J. Knoop, Lawrence B. Stack, Alan B. Storrow, R. Jason Thurman.
Summary: "Emergency care is defined by time and the emergency department is the most diverse melting pot of acute conditions in the hospital. Diagnostic accuracy, prognostic prediction, and the treatment pathways rely heavily on visual clues. We desire to maximize this skill for the benefit of our patients. We also strongly believe the visual experience, while sometimes downplayed within the hectic and time-pressured environment of modern medicine, is critical to ideal education. Images can teach faster and with greater impact than many pages of text or hours of lecture. We continue our pursuit of these goals with a substantially updated, expanded, and improved fifth edition of The Atlas of Emergency Medicine. Nearly all of our changes and additions come from reader suggestions and criticisms, all received with sincere gratitude. The audience for this text is all who provide emergency medical care, including clinicians, educators, residents, nurses, prehospital caregivers, and medical students. Many have also found it extremely useful as a review for written board examinations containing pictorial questions. Other healthcare workers, such as internists, family physicians, pediatricians, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants will find the Atlas a useful guide in identifying and treating many acute conditions, where visual clues significantly guide, improve, and expedite diagnosis as well as treatment"-- Provided by publisher.
Contents:
Head and facial trauma
Ophthalmic conditions
Funduscopic findings
Ophthalmic trauma
Ear, nose, and throat conditions
Oral conditions
Chest and abdomen
Urologic conditions
Sexually transmitted infections and anorectal conditions
Gynecologic and obstetric conditions
Extremity trauma
Extremity conditions
Cutaneous conditions
Pediatric conditions
Child abuse
Environmental conditions
Toxicological conditions
Wounds and soft-tissue injuries
Clinical forensic medicine
HIV conditions
Tropical medicine
Airway
ECG abnormalities
Emergency ultrasound
Microscopic findings and bodily fluids
Rheumatologic conditions
Mental health conditions.