Oxford Handbook of Emergency Medicine

Now in its fifth edition, the Oxford Handbook of Emergency Medicine is the essential rapid-reference guide to emergency medicine for everyone from junior doctors to specialist registrars, nurse practitioners, and paramedics. New and improved, the Handbook has been thoroughly revised throughout, with 100 extra illustrations and the latest guidelines and treatment advice, completely overhauled chapters on Medicine, Obstetrics and Gynaecology, and Paediatric emergencies, and new topics on treatment escalation, end-of-life care, and sepsis.

Clear and concise, extensively updated, and packed with a host of new X-rays to aid identification and treatment, this Handbook has everything you need to survive and thrive in the demanding world of emergency medicine today.

Table of Contents

1: General approach
2: Life-threatening emergencies
3: Medicine
4: Toxicology
5: Infectious diseases
6: Environmental emergencies
7: Analgesia and anaesthesia
8: Major trauma
9: Wounds, fractures, orthopaedics
10: Surgery
11: Ophthalmology
12: Ear, nose, and throat
13: Obstetrics and gynaecology
14: Psychiatry
15: Paediatric emergencies

Jonathan P. Wyatt, Honorary Clinical Associate Professor, University of Exeter, UK, Robert G. Taylor, Consultant in Emergency Medicine, Royal Cornwall Hospital, Truro, UK, Kerstin de Wit, Assistant Professor, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada, and Emily J. Hotton, Obstetrics and Gymaecology Specialty Trainee, Severn Deanery, UK

Jonathan P. Wyatt is Honorary Clinical Associate Professor at the University of Exeter, UK

Robert G. Taylor is Consultant in Emergency Medicine at Royal Cornwall Hospital, Truro, UK

Kerstin de Wit is Assistant Professor at McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada

Emily J. Hotton is Clinical Research Fellow at Southmead Hospital and University of Bristol, UK