EDcare handbook for Emergency Practice

The EDcare handbook for Emergency Practice is an invaluable peer reviewed resource for medical and nursing professionals caring for seriously ill or injured adults and children.

Written by the author of the "ABCDs of Emergency Medicine" and the online eLearning website "LearnEM", the book contains clinical management summaries designed to provide bedside guidance to the investigation, differential diagnosis and emergency treatment of a wide range of adult and paediatric medical emergencies. 

Topics include abdominal pain, anaphylaxis, asthma, burns, chest pain, closed head injury, croup, diabetic ketoacidosis, electrocution, epistaxis, febrile neutropenia, gastroenteritis/dehydration, headache, paracetamol poisoning, pulmonary embolism, pulmonary oedema, renal colic, sedation of the agitated patient, sepsis, status epilepticus, syncope, tonsillitis/quinsy, warfarin reversal, antibiotic selection in serious disease, sepsis and neutropenia, CPAP/BiPAP, rapid sequence intubation, mechanical ventilation, procedural sedation and analgesia, mental health medical clearance and risk assessment, emergency drug / infusion protocols, paediatric resuscitation and emergency drugs/infusions, intranasal sedation / analgesia and advanced life support in the adult, child and newborn.