Emergencies in clinical medicine /

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Imprint:Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.
Description:1 online resource (xvii, 436 pages) : illustrations
Language:English
Series:Emergencies series
Emergencies in-- series.
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11138917
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Other authors / contributors:Page, Piers.
Skinner, Greg.
ISBN:9780191547812
0191547816
9780199202522
0199202524
1283579812
9781283579810
9786613892263
6613892262
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
English.
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Summary:This book is an easy-to-use guide to the management of common medical emergencies. Emergencies nearly always present first to the junior doctor, either as a result of direct observation on the ward, or a phone call from nursing staff when on call. The key to their management is timely recognition and intervention. This book gives the junior doctor and senior medical student the confidence to do this. The text covers emergencies from both a problem-based and disease-based approach, with the book being divided into two sections - presentations and diseases. Cross-referencing between these two sec.
Other form:Print version: Emergencies in clinical medicine. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007 9780199202522
Table of Contents:
  • Contributors; Symbols and abbreviations; 1 The Basics; Section 1; 2 Presentations; Section 2; 3 Cardiology; 4 Respiratory; 5 Endocrine; 6 Gastroenterology; 7 Renal and urology; 8 Haematology, oncology and infectious diseases; 9 Neurology and neurosurgery; 10 Orthopaedics, rheumatology and dermatology; 11 Surgery; 12 Clinical biochemistry; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W.