PublishedMcgraw Hill Education, July 2016 |
ISBN9789814742580 |
FormatSoftcover |
Dimensions23cm × 18cm × 3cm |
The first edition of the Guide to the Essentials in Emergency Medicine co-edited by two prominent emergency physicians Associate Professors Shirley Ooi and Peter Manning with a combined total of 64 years of Emergency Medicine practice between them was first published in Singapore in 2004.
This book focuses on the practical management of the most life-threatening and common conditions encountered by emergency physicians. It is designed to offer a balanced viewpoint advocating the tenets of evidence-based medicine. This second edition preserves several of its predecessor's hallmark features: easy-to-read format: clinical descriptions are presented succinctly and problems are introduced with the same symptom-based approach in Section One; Popular sections such as Caveats covering the pitfalls likely to be encountered in medical practice and Special Tips for GPs are retained.
New features of this second edition include: twenty new chapters; thorough revision of the text for more content coverage easier reading and reflection of the latest evidence; reorganisation of Section Two into specific systems for ease of reading and revision for exams; inclusion of coloured photographs; and, addition of further illustrations ECGs plain radiographs CT scans and ultrasound images.
