Medical Emergency!: The St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center Book of Emergency Medicine [Paperback]

Stephen Lynn (Author), Pamela Weintraub (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 1996 | ISBN-10: 0688136796 | ISBN-13: 978-0688136796 | Edition: 1

Enables readers to differentiate between symptoms that belong in a doctor's office versus an emergency room, offering guidelines on how to prepare for almost any emergency and presenting tips on aiding victims.

Editorial Reviews

From Booklist

The proper nomenclature is now not ER but ED or emergency department, which suggests highly qualified personnel, up-to-date instruments and devices, and ample space. This most helpful, informative, well-arranged book tells how to be personally prepared for emergencies by having basic records and documents in wallet or purse and others in known places for easy location. It includes some simplified examples of ED forms and counsels individuals to find out where local EDs are and how to get to them. It discusses what are and are not emergencies for children, men and women, and the elderly, but suggests that, when in doubt, one should go to the ED; and it describes how to seek help and what to expect at the emergency site, in the ambulance, and at the ED. It clarifies emergency tests and treatments and explains how family members and friends can act as emergency patient advocates. Finally, it also deals with psychiatric emergencies. Make it available wherever medical emergencies are of interest. William Beatty

Review

>From an introduction to almost forty symptoms which indicate Emergency Department intervention to advice on using the 911 system and interacting with emergency room personnel, this provides an excellent and unusual set of tips and insights which should be absorbed before emergency care is required. An essential part of any savvy medical consumer's library. -- Midwest Book Review

Product Details

• Paperback: 385 pages
• Publisher: Hearst Corporation; 1 edition (January 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0688136796
• ISBN-13: 978-0688136796
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.4 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,577,212 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)