Emergency Medicine: An Approach to Clinical Problem-Solving [Hardcover]

Michael Hamilton (Author), Dietrich Jehle (Author), Trott (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 15, 1991 | ISBN-10: 0721644872 | ISBN-13: 978-0721644875 | Edition: 1st

This essential text covers emergency medicine from the assessment of signs and symptoms through the process of clinical problem solving. Provides both an on-site and clinical perspective, including information on obtaining pre-hospital information, data gathering, data integration, differential diagnosis, hypotheses formulation and testing, decision guidelines, principles of management, disposition, and documentation. Covers both comon and catastrophic diseases, such as chest pain, syncope, wound care, anaphylaxis, sepsis, child abuse, stroke, abnormal vaginal bleeding, alcohol intoxication, and more.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 1172 pages
• Publisher: W.B. Saunders Company; 1st edition (January 15, 1991)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0721644872
• ISBN-13: 978-0721644875
• Product Dimensions: 10.5 x 8.5 x 2.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.8 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,949,226 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent book., April 26, 2006

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Jason Harris (Mililani, HI) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Emergency Medicine: An Approach to Clinical Problem-Solving, 2e (Paperback)

This is an excellent book. Very readable. It utilizes primarily a sign and symptom-based layout with many useful suggestions on how to approach many common as well as not so common ED presentations. It is 900 pages and has many good pictures and diagrams. The index is very good as well. For a quick reference when there is not extensive time to research a topic, as well as for a straight read, this book is solid.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent for medical students, March 19, 2006

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bearsfan! (Chi-town) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Emergency Medicine: An Approach to Clinical Problem-Solving, 2e (Paperback)

This is perhaps the best book for a MS4 in a EM rotation. It can be covered completely in a month, without going "balls to the walls" crazy while studying. Highlights differentials and treatments, less on the pathophys. side. Med students need something to cover in a month, and this is the best that I've read.

3.0 out of 5 stars Required text, March 12, 2007

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S. Plum "med stu" (Flint, MI) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Emergency Medicine: An Approach to Clinical Problem-Solving, 2e (Paperback)

I got this book because it is required reading for the emergency medicine rotation at my school but I find it to be a dull read and lacking in good pictures. My clerkship director recommends Tintinelli or Rosen.