Emergency Medicine Handbook: Critical Concepts for Clinical Practice 1st Edition

It's a great book for final year students.It gives you all the basic, important facts in almost every kind of situation you may find yourselfwhile doing clerkships. It gives you before each chapter the "red flags", those critical concepts you can't miss.Recommended by professors as also by students.A must have if you are planning on a getting into a residency, specially GP/internal medicine.

I bought this at the beginning of my EM residency as a more realistic alternative to reading all of Tintinalli or Rosen. I was a bit disappointed as it is very much more geared to the level of a 3rd or 4th year med student. As such, it would be an excellent choice for a student to read before/during an EM clerkship but not as much in depth as I would like.For a slightly more resident oriented book try Emergency Medicine: Just the Facts or the Emergency Medicine Manual, which are both also excellent for students.

The product was as described but the shipping took over 2 weeks. Very disappointed

Great book for the emergency department

Great condition!

I like to carry handbooks with me for use in the hospital, and have borrowed/bought quite a few. This book stands out in its comprehensiveness and accessibility.The formatting makes excellent use of spacing and color so that one can easily locate the information without searching through a paragraph of prose.The information is arranged in a logical manner and is written for immediate practical application (for example, the Disposition heading details under what conditions a patient may be released from the ER). I have used other books that mention such-and-such a test or procedure, but not enough information is given regarding the specific situations that they would apply to.This book packs an enormous amount of information into its thin pages (the pages on radiology show several CT Abd slices - almost a mini atlas), and you end up with a book that is slightly too big to fit in a white coat pocket. But I think it is worth carrying around - the information and approaches contained allow one to tackle nearly any medical problem encountered in the ER (and elsewhere).

This handbook is absolutely great. It is well written, easy to use and concise. Of course it does not contain all the information in the full rosen text, but at least it gives you a small referrance to carry around with you that contains the essntials such as: red flags, tables, and classification of diseases and cases. The nice thing with this book is that is has non of the filling text that the full version has. It just tells you the main things to look for, the important epidemiology (eg. how common the condition is , or the percentage of a particular condition with in the total disease),what is necessary to check for in the history and physical, then what to do about it and what is needed to be done for such a case. I definately would recommend this handbook for any emergency medicine resident in training