Rosen's emergency medicine : concepts and clinical practice.

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Airway -- Mechanical ventilation and noninvasive ventilatory support -- Monitoring the emergency patient -- Shock -- Blood and blood components -- Brain resuscitation -- Adult resuscitation -- Pediatric resuscitation -- Neonatal resuscitation -- Clinical decision making -- Fever in the adult patient -- Weakness -- Dizziness and vertigo -- Confusion -- Coma and depressed level of consciousness -- Seizures -- Headache -- Dyspnea -- Chest pain -- Syncope -- Nausea and vomiting -- Abdominal pain -- Gastrointestinal bleeding -- Diarrhea -- Constipation -- Jaundice -- Acute pelvic pain -- Vaginal bleeding -- Back pain -- Cyanosis -- Sore throat -- Hemoptysis -- Red and painful eye -- Multiple trauma -- Trauma in pregnancy -- Pediatric trauma -- Geriatric trauma -- Head -- Facial trauma -- Spinal injuries -- Neck -- Thoracic trauma -- Abdominal trauma -- Genitourinary system -- Peripheral vascular injury -- General principles of orthopedic injuries -- Hand -- Wrist and forearm -- Humerus and elbow -- Shoulder -- Musculoskeletal back pain -- Pelvis -- Femur and hip -- Knee and lower leg -- Ankle and foot. Wound management principles -- Foreign bodies -- Mammalian bites -- Venomous animal injuries -- Thermal burns -- Chemical injuries -- Injury prevention and control -- Forensic emergency medicine -- Child maltreatment -- Sexual assault -- Intimate partner violence and abuse -- Elder abuse and neglect -- Youth, gangs, and violence -- V. 2. Oral medicine -- Ophthalmology -- Otolaryngology -- Asthma -- Chronic obstructive pulmonary -- Upper respiratory tract infections -- Pneumonia -- Pleural disease -- Acute coronary syndromes -- Dysrhythmias -- Implantable cardiac devices -- Heart failure -- Pericardial and myocardial disease -- Infective endocarditis and valvular heart disease -- Hypertension -- Aortic dissection -- Abdominal aortic aneurysm -- Peripheral arteriovascular disease -- Pulmonary embolism and deep venous thrombosis -- Esophagus, stomach, and duodenum -- Liver and biliary tract -- Pancreas -- Disorders of the small intestine -- Acute appendicitis -- Acute gastroenteritis -- Large intestine - Anorectum -- Renal failure -- Sexually transmitted diseases -- Selected urologic problems -- Stroke -- Seizures -- Headache. Delirium and dementia -- Brain and cranial nerve disorders -- Spinal cord disorders -- Peripheral nerve disorders -- Neuromuscular disorders -- Central nervous system infections -- Thought disorders -- Mood disorders -- Anxiety disorders -- Somatoform disorders -- Factitious disorders and malingering -- Suicide -- Arthritis -- Tendinopathy and bursitis -- Systemic lupus erythematosus and the vasculitides -- Allergy, hypersensitivity, and anaphylaxis -- Dermatologic presentations -- Anemia, polycythemia, and white blood cell disorders -- Disorders of hemostasis -- Selected oncologic emergencies -- Acid-base disorders -- Electrolyte disturbances -- Diabetes mellitus and disorders of glucose homeostasis -- Rhabdomyolysis -- Thyroid and adrenal disorders -- Bacteria -- Visures -- Rabies -- AIDS and HIV -- Parasites -- Tick-borne illnesses -- Tuberculosis -- Bone and joint infections -- Soft tissue infections -- Sepsis syndromes -- V. 3. Frostbite -- Accidental hypothermia -- Heat illness -- Electrical and lightning injuries -- Scuba diving and dysbarism -- High-altitude medicine -- Submersion. Radiation injuries -- General approach to the poisoned patient -- Acetaminophen -- Aspirin and nonsteroidal agents -- Anticholinergics -- Antidepressants -- Cardiovascular drugs -- Caustics -- Cocaine and other -- Toxic alcohols -- Hallucinogens -- Heavy metals -- Hydrocarbons -- Inhaled toxins -- Lithium -- Antipsychotics -- Opioids -- Pesticides -- Plants, mushrooms, and herbal medications -- Sedative hypnotics -- General approach to the pediatric patient -- Fever -- Pediatric respiratory emergencies: upper airway obstruction and infections -- Pediatric respiratory emergencies: lower airway obstruction -- Pediatric respiratory emergencies: disease of the lungs -- Cardiac disorders -- Gastrointestinal disorders -- Infectious diarrheal disease and dehydration -- Renal and genitourinary tract disorders -- Neurologic disorders -- Musculoskeletal disorders -- Sudden infant death syndrome and apparent life-threatening events -- General approach to the pregnant patient -- Acute complications of pregnancy -- Chronic medical illness during pregnancy -- Drug therapy and substance abuse -- Labor and delivery and their complications -- The elder patient. The immunocompromised patient -- The solid-organ transplant patient -- Alcohol-related disease -- Substance abuse -- Evaluation of the developmentally and physically disabled patient -- Pain management -- Procedural sedation and analgesia -- The combative patient -- The difficult patient -- Emergency medical service: overview and ground transport -- Air medical transport -- Tactical emergency medical support and urban search and rescue -- Disaster preparedness -- Weapons of mass destruction -- Guidelines in emergency medicine -- Medical literature and evidence-based medicine -- Observation medicine and clinical decision units -- Occupational medicine and occupational health in the emergency department -- Hyperbaric medicine -- The social role of emergency medicine -- Information technology in emergency medicine -- Multiculturalism and care delivery -- Process improvement and patient safety in the emergency department -- Bioethics -- End of life -- Medicolegal and risk management -- Wellness, stress, and the impaired physician.Emergency medicine