Full Description
NMS Emergency Medicine, Second Edition provides medical students, residents, physician assistants, and nurse practitioners with an introduction to the core content of emergency medicine. The book's concise narrative outline format helps readers quickly assimilate large amounts of material. Each chapter is followed by USMLE-style study questions. A comprehensive Board simulation examination is offered online.
This edition has been thoroughly updated and streamlined to focus on essential material. Questions have been revised to better reflect the level of difficulty of shelf exams. The book has a new two-color design with more illustrations and wider margins for notes.
Contents
ACUTE RESUSCITATION
Resuscitation
MEDICAL EMERGENCIES
Cardiovascular Emergencies
Pulmonary Emergencies
Gastrointestinal Emergencies
Urogenital Emergencies
Infectious Disease Emergencies
Metabolic Emergencies
Endocrine Emergencies
Neurologic Emergencies
Rheumatologic and Allergic Emergencies
Dermatologic Emergencies
Ear, Eye, Nose, Throat, and Dental Emergencies
Psychiatric Emergencies
Obstetric and Gynecologic Emergencies
Pediatric Emergencies
Hematologic and Oncologic Emergencies
TRAUMATIC EMERGENCIES
Trauma Emergencies
Orthopedic Emergencies
Wound Emergencies
TOXICOLOGIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL EMERGENCIES
Toxicologic Emergencies
Environmental Emergencies
SPECIAL CONSIDERATIONS
Emergency Medical Services
Disaster Medicine
Legal Issues
COMPREHENSIVE EXAM
