ISBN: 007-122631-1
Price: US$23.50 / S$42.50
Pub Date: June 2004
Size: 5.35 x 8.5 inches
Subject/Category: Healthcare/ Emergency Medicine
Rights: World
Edition: First
Binding: Softcover
Pages: 648 pp

Description

This portable guide emphasizes practical management of the most life-threatening and common conditions encountered by emergency physicians. It aims to offer a balanced viewpoint advocating the tenets of evidence-based medicine. Clinical descriptions are kept concise. Problems are presented using a symptom-based approach with the management based on the principles of Emergency Medicine.

• A quick reference for medical officers (residents) serving their Emergency Medicine rotations, emergency department nurses and ancillary staff.
• Valuable foundational reading for basic and advanced Emergency Medicine trainees preparing for their postgraduate examination.
• Practical, focused, and concise presentations of common conditions encountered by medical students during their rotations in the Emergency Department.
• An indispensable guide to treating multidisciplinary emergencies for house officers and medical officers serving their rotations other than Emergency Medicine.
• 'Special Tips for GPs' provides a helpful section for general practitioners, paramedics and pre-hospital care personnel during the first 30 minutes of multidisciplinary emergencies.
  

Endorsements

… this long-needed local guide to the practice of Emergency Medicine … is eminently readable, current, succinct and systematically presented.

Clinical Assoc. Prof. V Anantharaman, President, Society for Emergency Medicine in Singapore and Senior Consultant Emergency Physician, Singapore General Hospital

… Guide to the Essentials in Emergency Medicine represents an outstanding effort … is clearly written and … [a] most useful reference for any individual working or training in an Emergency Department.

Prof. W. Brian Gibler, Chairman, Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine

… there is accumulated experience and wisdom in its pages … This book should be in the lab coat pocket or on the desk of all doctors who have to deal with emergencies and urgent medical problems in one way or another.

Assoc. Prof. Goh Lee Gan, Dept. of Community, Occupational and Family Medicine, Medical Faculty, National University of Singapore, and Regional President, World Organisation of Family Doctors (WONCA), Asia Pacific Region

Emergency departments see an enormous range of illnesses, injuries and problems. ... This book ... is an excellent source of practical guidelines and should be widely used.

Dr. Robin Illingworth, Consultant in Accident and Emergency Medicine
St James's University Hospital, Leeds, UK, and Senior Clinical Lecturer
in Accident and Emergency Medicine, University of Leeds.

A handy and practical guide for the management of common emergencies … clearly presented in point form for quick reference: a good book for medical students and postgraduate trainees.

Prof. Lee Eng Hin, Director of Graduate Medical Studies, National University of Singapore

'pocket-sized and highly practical, readers will find this book evidence-based and representing the best practices of … Emergency Medicine.

Prof. John Wong Eu-Li, Dean, Faculty of Medicine, National University of Singapore

The editors

Dr. Shirley Ooi is a Senior Consultant Emergency Physician at the Emergency Medicine Department National University Hospital (EMD NUH), Singapore and a Senior Clinical Lecturer at the National University of Singapore (NUS) Faculty of Medicine. She obtained her FRCSEd(A&E) in 1992 and became a Fellow of the Academy of Medicine, Singapore in 1998. She has worked in Edinburgh, UK, and in Cincinnati, USA. In 1997 she attended the Evidence-based Medicine (EBM) Workshop at McMaster University, Canada and has since then been a very active EBM facilitator locally. Dr Ooi is very interested in Academic Emergency Medicine and is keenly involved in teaching, research, and organization of Emergency Medicine conferences, scientific meetings and EBM workshops locally. She received the 1997 American College of Emergency Physician (ACEP) Research Forum Young Investigator Award for excellence in research and presentation by the Emergency Medicine Foundation, USA.

Dr. Ooi is the Departmental Director of Education, Departmental Director of Research and house staff supervisor at the EMD NUH. She was also the Chair of the inaugural Joint Final FRCSEd(A&E) / MRCSEd(A&E) / MMed(A&E) preparatory course in 2001, and in 2002, and a member of the above examination planning committee.

Dr. Peter Manning is the Chief and Senior Consultant Emergency Physician at the Emergency Medicine Department National University Hospital (EMD NUH), Singapore and a Clinical Associate Professor at the National University of Singapore (NUS) Faculty of Medicine. Dr. Manning concentrates his efforts on the administration of a developing department, on teaching, and, clinical work. His extensive Emergency Medicine background spans nearly thirty years and four countries. His emergency medicine training took place in the United States of America during which time he certified as a Diplomate of the American Board of Emergency Medicine in 1984. He was awarded the Frank Foss Teaching Award from his residency training programme in 1987. Clinical Associate Professor Manning is currently an Examiner on the Panel of Internal Examiners for the Joint Final FRCSEd(A&E)/MRCSEd(A&E)Edin and Mmed(A&E) Singapore, and, in the recent past was an Oral Board Examiner for the American Board of Emergency Medicine. Currently, he represents NUH in several Ministry of Health Committees related to Emergency Medicine in Singapore.

Key features

• Emphasizes practical management of the most life-threatening and common conditions in Emergency Medicine

• Authors share the pitfalls likely to be encountered

• Presented in point form for quick access to information

• Multiple illustrations, x-rays and electrocardiogram

Market/audience

Medical Officers (Residents) serving their Emergency Medicine rotations, medical students, trainees preparing for their postgraduate examination in Emergency Medicine, general practitioners, paramedics and pre-hospital care personnel.