Pocket Emergency Medicine

Selected as a Doody's Core Title for 2023! Pocket-sized and easy to use,Pocket Emergency Medicine,Fifth Edition,provides accurate, actionable, and up-to-date information essential to caring for patients in life-threatening situations. Edited by Drs. Richard D. Zane and Joshua M.Kosowsky, this handy, loose-leaf resource is designed to be used at the bedside by clinicians on the front lines of emergency care. A volume in the popular Pocket Notebook series, it organizes chapters by presenting condition and supports the thought processes needed to hone everyday diagnostic decision making. Offerseasily accessible informationon the entire field of emergency medicine-from history and physical exam to differential diagnosis testing to therapeutics to disposition-all in one easy-to-navigate notebook Follows thepopular Pocket Notebook format, featuring bulleted lists, tables, diagrams, and algorithms that make essential facts easy to find and retain Featuresfully updated contentthroughout, including the latest research and best practices,as well as anewsubsectionon COVID-19 Coversall major organ systems, plus emergencies related to the environment, pediatrics, the psychiatric patient, toxicology, airway management, trauma, and more Contains usefulquick-reference appendiceson abbreviations, PALS, ICU medications, equations, and more Written by emergency medicine residents from the University of Colorado and HarvardMedical School, and edited by senior faculty