Lecture Notes: Emergency Medicine
5th Edition
Comprehensive introduction to the core specialty area of emergency medicine
Presented in a user-friendly format, combining flowcharts and high-quality illustrations together for an easy-to-read experience, this fifth edition of The RCEM Lecture Notes: Emergency Medicine has been thoroughly revised to reflect recent advances in the field of emergency medicine and to give readers a comprehensive and highly accessible overview of the field.
The RCEM Lecture Notes: Emergency Medicine, Fifth Edition presents important ‘need to know’ information for all those involved in treating patients in an emergency setting. The text serves as an excellent starting point to support initial teaching on the subject and reference or revision at the end of a module, rotation, or final exams.
Contributions made by a variety of healthcare professionals with significant firsthand experience in the field, The RCEM Lecture Notes: Emergency Medicine contains information on: - Major trauma and injuries. - Burns, contamination, irradiation, and poisoning. - Acute medical, surgical and obstetric conditions relevant to emergency medicine. - Paediatric emergency medicine. - Mental health and medicolegal aspects of emergency medicine. All of our books are developed in collaboration with students. This means that our books are always published with you, the student, in mind.
Table of Contents
List of Contributors vi
Preface to the Fifth Edition vii
Preface to the Fourth Edition viii
Preface to the Second Edition ix
Preface to the First Edition x
About the Companion Website xi
1 What every Emergency Physician needs to know 1
Catherine Williams
2 Major trauma and multiple injuries 19
Lt Col Alan G A Weir RAMC
3 Head injuries 34
Kate Clayton
4 The neck and the back 48
Fiqry Fadillah and Catherine Williams
5 Facial injuries 64
James Conroy and Abu Hassan
6 Injuries to the trunk 73
Fiqry Fadillah
7 The lower limb 88
Abu Hassan
8 The upper limb 113
Katie Fulcher and Abu Hassan
9 The hand 132
Shah Rahman and Sophie Jefferys
10 Burns contamination and irradiation 141
Jodie Wilkinson
11 Cardiac arrest and cardiac dysrhythmias 157
Rob Summerhayes
12 Chest pain 184
Vivek Chhabra and Amy Nickson
13 Respiratory distress 205
Amy Nickson
14 Collapse and sudden illness 233
Amy Nickson
15 Poisoning 277
Jodie Wilkinson
16 Abdominal pain and GI problems 310
Catherine Williams
17 Obstetric gynaecological and genitourinary problems 326
Amy Nickson
18 Children’s problems in the emergency department 341
Catherine Williams
19 The disturbed patient 373
Antonia Hazlerigg and Laura Cottey
20 Medicolegal aspects of emergency medicine 392
Amy Nickson
21 Small wounds and localised infections 410
Catherine Williams
22 Ophthalmic ENT and facial conditions 428
Amy Nickson
23 Global health 443
A.D. Redmond
Index 458
