Guide to the Essentials in Emergency Medicine

The first edition of the Guide to the Essentials in Emergency Medicine, co-edited by two prominent emergency physicians, Associate Professors Shirley Ooi and Peter Manning, with a combined total of 64 years of Emergency Medicine practice between them, was first published in Singapore in 2004.

This book focuses on the practical management of the most life-threatening and common conditions encountered by emergency physicians. It is designed to offer a balanced viewpoint advocating the tenets of evidence-based medicine.

This second edition preserves several of its predecessor’s hallmark features.

• Easy-to-read format: clinical descriptions are presented succinctly and problems are introduced with the same symptom-based approach in Section One.
• Popular sections such as Caveats, covering the pitfalls likely to be encountered in medical practice, and Special Tips for GPs are retained.

New features of this second edition include:

• Twenty new chapters
• Thorough revision of the text for more content coverage, easier reading, and reflection of the latest evidence
• Reorganisation of Section Two into specific systems for ease of reading and revision for exams
• Inclusion of coloured photographs
• Addition of further illustrations, ECGs, plain radiographs, CT scans and ultrasound images

PART 1 COMMON PRESENTATIONS IN ADULT PATIENTS
Chap 1 Altered mental state
Chap 2 Bleeding GIT
Chap 3 Bleeding, Vaginal, Abnormal
Chap 4 Blurring of vision
Chap 5 Breathlessness, acute
Chap 6 Diarrhoea and vomiting
Chap 7 Fever
Chap 8 Giddiness
Chap 9 Haemoptysis
Chap 10 Headache
Chap 11 Hyperventilation
Chap 12 Lower limb swelling
Chap 13 Pain, abdominal
Chap 14 Pain, chest, acute
Chap 15 Pain, joint, peripheral
Chap 16 Pain, low back
Chap 17 Pain, scrotal and penile
Chap 18 Palpitations
Chap 19 Poisoning, General Principles
Chap 20 Red eye
Chap 21 Seizure
Chap 22 Shock/hypoperfusion states
Chap 23 Stridor
Chap 24 Syncope
Chap 25 Trauma Multiple, Initial Management
Chap 26 Urinary retention, acute
Chap 27 Violent and psychotic patients


PART 2 SPECIFIC CONDITIONS
PART 2A: AIRWAY AND RESUSCITATION
Chap 28 Airway Management/Rapid Sequence Intubation
Chap 29 Allergic reactions/Anaphylaxis
Chap 30 Cardiac arrest algorithms
Chap 31 Cardiogenic Shock
Chap 32 Neurogenic shock
Chap 33 Sepsis/septic shock


PART 2B: CARDIOVASCULAR EMERGENCIES
Chap 34 Aortic Emergencies
Chap 35 Bradydysrhythmias
Chap 36 Coronary syndromes, acute
Chap 37 Other Heart Conditions (Pericarditis, Myocarditis, Infective Endocarditis, Cardiomyophathy)
Chap 38 Heart failure, acute
Chap 39 Hypertensive Crises
Chap 40 Acute limb ischaemia
Chap 41 Pulmonary Embolism
Chap 42 Venous emergencies
Chap 43 Tachydysrhythmias


PART 2C: RESPIRATORY EMERGENCIES
Chap 44 Asthma
Chap 45 Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD)
Chap 46 Pneumonia, Community Acquired (CAP)
Chap 47 Pneumothorax
Chap 48 Respiratory Failure, Acute


PART 2D: GASTROINTESTINAL EMERGENCIES
Chap 49 Acute Appendicitis
Chap 50 Hepatic encephalopathy, acute
Chap 51 Hepatobiliary Emergencies
Chap 52 Intestinal Obstruction
Chap 53 Ischaemic Bowel/Mesenteric Ischaemia
Chap 54 Pancreatitis, acute
Chap 55 Peptic Ulcer Disease/ Dyspepsia
Chap 56 Perianal Conditions


PART 2E: ENDOCRINE/METABOLIC EMERGENCIES
Chap 57 Acid Base Emergencies
Chap 58 Adrenal Insufficiency, acute
Chap 59 Fluid and Electrolyte Disorders
Chap 60 Diabetic Ketoacidosis (DKA) and Hyperosmolar Hyperglycaemic State (HHS)
Chap 61 Hypoglycaemia
Chap 62 Thyroid Emergencies -Thyroid Crisis and Myxoedema


PART 2F: RENAL AND GENITOURINARY EMERGENCIES
Chap 63 Renal Emergencies
Chap 64 Urinary Tract Infection
Chap 65 Urolithiasis


PART 2G: NEUROLOGIC EMERGENCIES
Chap 66 Meningitis
Chap 67 Migraine and Cluster Headache
Chap 68 Stroke
Chap 69 Subarachnoid Haemorrhage (SAH)
Chap 70 Temporal Arteritis
Chap 71 Transient Ischaemic Attack


PART 2H: INFECTIOUS DISEASES
Chap 72 Coping with Emerging Infectious Diseases of the 21st Century in the Emergency Department - A New Norm
Chap 73 Dengue Fever & Chikungunya Fever
Chap 74 Malaria
Chap 75 Needle Stick/Body Fluid Exposure
Chap 76 Tetanus and anti-tetanus prophylaxis


PART 2I: HAEMATOLOGIC/ONCOLOGIC EMERGENCIES
Chap 77 Administration of Blood Products in the EMD
Chap 78 Oncology Emergencies
Chap 79 Overwarfarinisation


PART 2J: DERMATOLOGIC EMERGENCIES
Chap 80 Dermatology in Emergency Care


PART 2K: GERIATRIC EMERGENCIES
Chap 81 Geriatric Emergencies


PART 2L: TOXICOLOGY
Chap 82 Alcohol Intoxication & Poisoning with other alcohols
Chap 83 Poisoning, Benzodiazepine
Chap 84 Poisoning, Carbon Monoxide
Chap 85 Poisoning, Cyclic Antidepressants
Chap 86 Poisoning, Digoxin
Chap 87 Poisoning, Organophosphates
Chap 88 Poisoning, Paracetamol
Chap 89 Poisoning, Salicylates


PART 2M: TOXICOLOGY (INCLUDING BITES)
Chap 90 Bites, Mammalian and Human
Chap 91 Bites, Snake


PART 2N: SURGICAL & ORTHOPAEDIC TRAUMA/INFECTIOUS EMERGENCIES
Chap 92 Crush Sydrome
Chap 93 Trauma, Abdominal
Chap 94 Trauma, Chest
Chap 95 Trauma, Head
Chap 96 Trauma and infections, Hand
Chap 97 Trauma, Lower Extremity
Chap 98 Trauma, Maxillofacial
Chap 99 Trauma , Paediatric (refer to Chap 137)
Chap 100 Trauma, Pelvic
Chap 101 Trauma in Pregnancy
Chap 102 Trauma, Spinal Cord
Chap 103 Trauma, Upper Extremity
Chap 104 Wound Care & Management


PART 2O: ENT EMERGENCIES
Chap 105 Common ENT Emergencies


PART 2P: EYE EMERGENCIES
Chap 106 Blurring of vision and Red and Painful eye


PART 2Q: PSYCHIATRIC EMERGENCIES
Chap 107 ASSAULT (non-sexual)


PART 2R: OBSTETRIC AND GYNAECOLOGIC EMERGENCIES
Chap 108 Eclampsia
Chap 109 Ectopic Pregnancy
Chap 110 Emergency delivery of the newborn
Chap 111 Pelvic Inflammatory Disease (PID)


PART 2S: ENVIRONMENTAL EMERGENCIES
Chap 112 Burn, Major
Chap 113 Burns, Minor
Chap 114 Diving Emergencies
Chap 115 Electrical and Lightning Injuries
Chap 116 Hyperthermia
Chap 117 Submersion Injuries


PART 2T: IMAGING
Chap 118 Emergency Ultrasound
Chap 119 Views of x-rays to order


PART 2U: PHARMACOLOGY
Chap 120 Commonly Used Emergency Drugs in Adults
Chap 121 List of drugs to avoid in G6PD deficiency
Chap 122 Prescribing Pregnancy


PART 2V: PAEDIATRIC EMERGENCIES
Chap 123 Child, Abdominal pain
Chap 124 Child with breathlessness
Chap 125 Child/baby, crying
Chap 126 Child with diarrhoea
Chap 127 Child with fever
Chap 128 Child, fitting
Chap 129 Child, Vomiting
Chap 130 Paediatric Asthma
Chap 131 Bronchiolitis
Chap 132 Febrile Fit
Chap 133 Fluid Replacement in Paediatrics
Chap 134 Newborn Resuscitation in the ED
Chap 135 Non-accidental Injury in Paediatrics
Chap 136 Paediatric Drugs and Equipment
Chap 137 Trauma, Paediatric


PART 2W: MISCELLANEOUS USEFUL INFORMATION
Chap 138 Commonly Used Scoring Systems
Chap 139 Common Emergency Procedures
Chap 140 Pain Management
Chap 141 Procedural Sedation
Chap 142 Simple Statistics
Chap 143 Useful Formulae


Appendix Colour images for Chapter