Current Emergency Diagnosis & TreatmentMary T. Ho, Charles E. Saunders Designed for all who provide emergency care, CEDT provides ready information needed to both diagnose and treat life-threatening conditions rapidly. This edition includes new or expanded material on heart emergencies, pediatric emergencies, and disaster management. |
Contents
Basic Advanced Cardiac | 2 |
Basic Advanced Cardiac Life Support | 5 |
Advanced Life Support | 13 |
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abnormalities abscess acute airway antibiotics aortic arterial blood gas associated blood pressure cardiac tamponade cardiogenic shock catheter cause cerebrospinal fluid cervical spine Chapter 46 chest pain chest x-ray clinical coma compression CT scan Diagnosis disease disorders Disposition Hospitalize dose drug dyspnea edema embolism emergency department endotracheal esophageal evaluation examination fever fractures gastrointestinal tract headache hematoma hemorrhage hypotension hypoxemia indicated infarction infection infusion injury Insert intravenous intubation joint lesion lidocaine lumbar puncture meningitis ment mg/kg muscle myocardial myocardial infarction nasal neck nerve neurologic normal obstruction Obtain occur onset orally oxygen patient performed peritoneal pneumothorax present pulmonary pulmonary edema pulmonary embolism pulse renal respiratory rupture seizures serum severe shock signs spinal splint stool surgery surgical suspected suture symptoms syncope syndrome Table tachycardia tamponade tenderness tension pneumothorax tests therapy tients tion tissue trauma Treatment & Disposition tube usually vascular venous ventilation ventricular vomiting wound