Product Description
Primary Emergency Care for Health Care Providers (6th edition)
Authors: A Engelbrecht, V Lalloo
Format: Physical Hardcopy
Emergency Medicine (EM) is a medical speciality that focuses on the diagnosis and treatment of urgent illnesses and injuries. What makes this discipline unique is the reversal of the usual medical consultation – emergency clinicians often start life-saving treatment before they get the full history and examination.
Interventions that happen in the critical minutes of patient care in a medical emergency have the potential to change the course of a patient’s life, with the efficient practice of EM ensuring a seamless transition of care from the scene of an accident or medical emergency to the ICU bed.
Primary Emergency Care for Health Care Providers is the first complete South African textbook on the field to become available since the introduction of EM as a medical speciality and the professionalisation of EM in South Africa. The book covers a wide range of topics in EM, starting off with the classical A-B-C approach of chapters on airway, breathing and circulation.
From there, the authors delve into the nuances of cardiovascular emergencies, neurological conditions, toxicology, point-of-care ultrasound, paediatric emergency medicine, electrolyte derangements, venomous snake bites and disaster medicine.
Contents:
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Chapter 1: Airway Management
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Chapter 2: Oxygenation and Ventilation
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Chapter 3: Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) and Choking
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Chapter 4: Respiratory Emergencies
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Chapter 5: Vascular Access
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Chapter 6: Cardiovascular Emergencies
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Chapter 7: Neurological Emergencies
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Chapter 8: Gastrointestinal Emergencies
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Chapter 9: Metabolic and Endocrine Emergencies
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Chapter 10: Haematological Emergencies
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Chapter 11: Poisoning and Overdose
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Chapter 12: Urological Emergencies
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Chapter 13: Gynaecological Emergencies
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Chapter 14: Obstetric Musculoskeletal and Vascular Emergencies
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Chapter 16: ENT and Opthalmic Emergencies
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Chapter 17: Infective Conditions
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Chapter 18: Psychiatry and Psychology
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Chapter 19: Post-Exposure Prophylaxis
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Chapter 20: Environmental Emergencies
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Chapter 21: Paediatric Emergency Medicine
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Chapter 22: Point-of-Care Ultrasound
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Chapter 23: Disaster Medicine
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Chapter 24: Ethics in Emergency Medicine
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