Main description:

NMS Emergency Medicine, Second Edition provides medical students, residents, physician assistants, and nurse practitioners with an introduction to the core content of emergency medicine. The book's concise narrative outline format helps readers quickly assimilate large amounts of material. Each chapter is followed by USMLE-style study questions. A comprehensive Board simulation examination is offered online.

This edition has been thoroughly updated and streamlined to focus on essential material. Questions have been revised to better reflect the level of difficulty of shelf exams. The book has a new two-color design with more illustrations and wider margins for notes.

Contents:

ACUTE RESUSCITATION

Resuscitation

MEDICAL EMERGENCIES

Cardiovascular Emergencies

Pulmonary Emergencies

Gastrointestinal Emergencies

Urogenital Emergencies

Infectious Disease Emergencies

Metabolic Emergencies

Endocrine Emergencies

Neurologic Emergencies

Rheumatologic and Allergic Emergencies

Dermatologic Emergencies

Ear, Eye, Nose, Throat, and Dental Emergencies

Psychiatric Emergencies

Obstetric and Gynecologic Emergencies

Pediatric Emergencies

Hematologic and Oncologic Emergencies

TRAUMATIC EMERGENCIES

Trauma Emergencies

Orthopedic Emergencies

Wound Emergencies

TOXICOLOGIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL EMERGENCIES

Toxicologic Emergencies

Environmental Emergencies

SPECIAL CONSIDERATIONS

Emergency Medical Services

Disaster Medicine

Legal Issues

COMPREHENSIVE EXAM