Lange Essentials of Emergency Medicine

Here is a handbook that meets the need for a portable quick reference to conditions seen in emergency medicine. This guide draws on the trusted Current Emergency Diagnosis & Treatment, 6/e, distilling its authoritative content into a handy format and size you can use effectively on the job.

Lange Current Essentials of Emergency Medicine covers 500 common or important diseases, disorders, or symptoms, conveniently putting each one on its own page. The pages provide bulleted points under three main headings: essentials of diagnosis, differential diagnosis, and treatment. Each page also features a clinical pearl to aid you in diagnosis. Conditions are alphabetized within the book’s 29 sections, which cover general categories of illness: emergencies involving cardiac disorders, infectious diseases, shock, chest trauma, vertebral and spinal injuries, and the like.

What’s more, each page features its own accompanying memorable clinical “pearl,” a brief, pithy comment that makes a particular diagnostic issue or guideline memorable. (For subarachnoid hemorrhage: “Assume any headache associated with syncope is a subarachnoid hemorrhage.” For multiple myeloma: “Check albumen and protein in fracture workups in patients with a history of minimal injury.”)

In Lange Current Essentials of Emergency Medicine you’ll learn:
• why you shouldn’t delay treatment of a patient suspected of experiencing a thyroid storm
• how to tell if a pregnant patient is suffering from gestational hypertension or preeclampsia
• what test is considered the gold standard for diagnosing aortic disruption
• how to detect compartment syndrome in patients with altered consciousness
• what treatments to implement for contact dermatitis
• what the most important factor is for preventing infection in cases of dog bite
• how to detect chemical injury to the airway in a smoke-inhalation patient
• when to watch for symptoms of liver injury in a case of acetaminophen overdose

You’ll find just about an emergency situation you’re likely to encounter covered in this book. It describes how to diagnose highly common conditions, while watching for rare disorders or serious complications that can occur. From bone fractures to cardiac conditions, from poisoning to injuries from biological or chemical terrorism, Lange Current Essentials of Emergency Medicine puts the answers you need right at your fingertips.