Emergency Care of the Abused

Emergency Care of the Abused is intended to assist the health care practitioner in managing the acute care of abused patients. This accessible introduction is not intended to be an exhaustive study of each topic, but a quick reference and practical guide for those in the clinical arena who see such patients. The full range of potential abuses that a health care practitioner may see is covered here. Several topics not commonly included in textbooks, such as trafficking, torture, and cultural influence are included. Each chapter has goals and objectives to maximize educational reading on the topic, photographs and tables to assist the clinician, legal aspects of the emergency situation, and quick reference pages to assist the practitioner emergently dealing with an abused patient.

Fiona E. Gallahue is Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Division of Emergency Medicine at the University of Washington School of Medicine and an emergency medicine physician at Harborview Medical Center in Seattle, Washington Laura D. Melville is Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at Weill Cornell Medical College and Director of Acute Care for Sexual Abuse, Child Abuse, and Domestic Violence, as well as an emergency medicine physician at New York Methodist Hospital, Brooklyn, New York