Lange Current Emergency Diagnosis & Treatment, 5/e

Much praised and widely used in its previous editions, this new version of Lange Current Emergency Diagnosis & Treatment provides a wealth of concise, easy-to-read, practical information on a wide variety of conditions that are present to the emergency department. Using a problem-focused format, it addresses common problems, trauma, and non-trauma emergencies in a popular, quick-access style.

The book emphasizes the immediate management of life-threatening problems, then presents the evaluation and treatment of specific disorders. There’s a lot that’s new and revised in this Fifth Edition. An entirely new chapter provides specific information on the management of nuclear, biologic, and chemical weapons injuries. With concerns in the general population and in the healthcare community about the preparedness for these types of threats, this guide offers concise details on biologic weapons—including bacterial agents such as anthrax and plague, viral agents including smallpox and hemorrhagic fever, and and biologic toxins such as ricin and botulinum toxin, as well as nuclear weapons and various chemical agents.

Lange Current Emergency Diagnosis & Treatment, 5/e features:
• problem-oriented coverage to aid you in finding appropriate solutions quickly
• extensive algorithms to help you decide the right course of action to take
• more than 400 illustrations, including new ultrasound and CT scans that portray disorders commonly seen
• details on managing common emergency problems

Tables and flowcharts sum up critical facts and choices in a way that aid you in making accurate decisions quickly. For example, you’ll find tables offering a definitive diagnosis of conditions causing acute abdominal pain...essentials of diagnosing diseases causing dyspnea and respiratory distress...clinical findings associated with biologic toxins...and much more.

From the immediate management of life-threatening problems to the evaluation and treatment of specific disorders, Lange Current Emergency Diagnosis & Treatment, 5/e gives sound, up-to-date advice on:
• performing techniques of basic and advanced life support
• using novel approaches in cardiac arrest management
• providing immediate management of the compromised airway
• applying principles of intubation
• determining the cause of shock, and approaches to shock with or without history of trauma
• evaluating GI bleeding and providing emergency treatment of specific disorders causing it
• managing vascular emergencies, caused by trauma or not caused by trauma
• handling infectious disease emergencies, from pneumonia to urinary tract infections, STDs, skin infections, and infections caused by specific organisms

You’ll also see how to manage patients who are present with multiple injuries—ranging from injuries to the neck area to tension pneumothorax, cardiac tamponade, and abdominal trauma. And there are details on treating poisoning cases, covering substances from acetaminophen to alcohol, heavy metals, and drug overdoses.

Covering both trauma and non-trauma injuries, Lange Current Emergency Diagnosis & Treatment, 5/e is a comprehensive and current guide to maladies resulting from everything from household accidents to bioterrorism—and just about all else in between.