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An Introduction to Clinical Emergency Medicine: Guide for Practitioners in the Emergency Department

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I am a second year resident in emergency medicine. Introduction to Emergency Medicine is an excellent basic textbook highly recommended for medical students and residents. There are sections on Principles of Emergency Medicine, symptom based evaluation, and an appendix of the most frequently performed procedures in emergency medicine. The symptom based section is especially useful. Each chapter gives a concise framework for evaluating a given complaint including key components of history, physical, labs and studies. The book is copiously illustrated with pictures, charts and diagrams. Basic medical school level concepts (but which you may have forgotten already as a resident!) are reviewed in the appropriate chapter. For example, on the chapter on eye complaints, the anatomy of the eye, relevant cranial nerves and cortical pathways are briefly reviewed. When examination techniques, or physical exam findings are mentioned, there is often an accompanying illustration (ex: Kernig's & Brudzinski's signs, Battle sign, swinging flashlight test etc). Many more detailed textbooks do not have these features. In short if you're looking for a great, symptom based, easy to read and high yield emergency medicine textbook, get this book. Medstudents - buy this book and read it cover to cover before your emergency medicine sub-I; it shouldn't take more than a week or two to get through and you'll learn a tremendous amount.

This book is AWESOME. I am a Stanford medical student and found this book to be THE MOST VALUABLE BOOK I HAVE BOUGHT! Why? Several reasons! First, this book is organized differently. Normally, books are organized by system (renal, cardio, pulmonary) and later offer disease descriptions. This book offers a more realistic approach as each chapter explores a symptom and offers multiple diagnosis (this is so valuable or as we say in med school - MONEY!!!) Secondly, this book has end-of-chapter tables with differential diagnoses to help you recall. So if you're seeing a patient with back pain - look at the chart: cauda equine syndrome, back pain, AAA and what test to specifically to distinguish amongst them). Lastly, the book has amazing pictures, is easy to read, colorful, and not at all boring. Trust me: this is a book you will want to read from cover to cover!

I am a research director in an emergency medicine teaching program. I recently obtained this book after I heard that it was an excellent introductory text. After reviewing the text, I found this assessment to be quite accurate. The book serves as an introductory text for students, residents, or those new to Emergency Medicine and requiring basic foundations, as well as a very user friendly interface. The text comes alive with many color photos, tables, xrays, charts, and drawings - all making for a very nice departure from many more stale texts on the subject. I highly recommend this text and will be suggesting it as a "must have" initial reference for our residents and students.

I am a Haile Debas Academy of Medical Educator, University of Calif San Francisco, School of Medicine, Student Advisor, Attending in Emergency Medicine. I highly recommend this textbook for medical students, residents, nurses, paramedics, and nurse practitioners - basically, anyone who takes care of the undifferentiated patient. The book is organized by chief complaints. It approaches the undifferentiated patient with which key questions to ask and what diagnostic tests to order.

The textbook is user friendly and has quality pictures which are understood easily. I've had experienced nurse and paramedic educators at University of California, San Francisco/San Francisco General Hospital (UCSF/SFGH) recommend this book to nursing and paramedic students. It was helpful for the nurses to know what the physician's differential diagnosis was and why certaiin tests were ordered. Experienced nurse practitioners also found the book easy to use and helpful. The section on "Pearls, Pitfalls and Myths" contributes even more to an otherwise outstanding book.

This book is great and I love the pictures. I am studying for my 10-year recertification and have looked at quite a few of the other books out there, and this book wins, hands-down. The chapters are well-written and the illustrations are great.

This book is concise enough to actually be readable. It is, in my opinion better than Tintanelli because it is more straight forward and you don't need to have 2 Vol. with you at all times. Overall a great buy.

Organized by complaints, this book is great for how to work through most presentations to the ER, from when the patient arrives all the way to dispo. Good student reference, came recommended to me by a resident.

I cancelled my order as soon as I visited the Cambridge University Press website, & looked more closely at the content of this book. Although it appears to be a great, extremely helpful book, being based on the chief, presenting complaint, the problem is twofold for American users. First, it uses American Heart Assoc. 2000 guidelines, not 2005, despite being published in 2005, and the AHA guidelines have changed significantly. Second, the book uses British units of measurement (for ex, cm of water, rather than mmHg for blood pressure). This book would be wonderful, a blessing, if it were up to date with current AHA 2005 guidelines & written for U.S. users. You can probably still gain value from it, but should be very familiar with American standards of measurement & current AHA guidelines before reading it, so you can read with discernment.

I have found this work an excellent introduction to emergency medicine, and should be first reading for any new student interested in Emergency Medicine. Dr. Madhaddevan and Dr. Garmel should be applauded for this work. Strong work Gus and Maha.

As a fourth year med student interested in EM, this is a great text. You can't finish it over one rotation at over 700 pages. But if you're taking 2-3 rotations with externships, this is a great text plod through.

I'm only about halfway through, but I like to read a chapter and then review the material in Secrets or Pocket Emergency Medicine, sometimes adding to the latter (in VERY small print) from the great material in this book.