Emergency Handbook

Author: Shi Yingkang
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Publish Date: 2000-06-01
Features: This book is written and compiled by over 40 young and middle-aged experts from West China Medical University, who possess both fundamental theories and clinical practical experience in emergency medicine. Based on the third edition of the "Emergency Handbook," it incorporates recent developments and achievements in emergency medicine. The book is divided into five parts and thirty-seven chapters. In the general introduction, chapters such as an overview of emergency medicine, pre-hospital emergency care and transport, major casualty incidents and disasters, individual emergency medicine, and the analysis and urgent assessment of emergency problems are included, aiming to reflect the overall development of the emergency medicine specialty. In the sections on trauma emergency care, non-trauma emergency care, and other specialty emergency care, the book follows the characteristics of emergency medicine practice, generally organizing content in the order of emergency management of life-threatening issues, further diagnosis and assessment, and emergency management of specific diseases or trauma, to emphasize the practical concept in emergency medicine practice. The book is comprehensive, up-to-date, and highly practical, making it suitable for emergency department (room) medical staff at all levels of hospitals. It is also a valuable reference book for medical school students, graduate students, and hospital physicians, and can serve as a training textbook for pre-hospital emergency care and in-hospital emergency care.