Current Emergency Diagnosis and Treatment

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Summary: TRULY EMERGENCY-CHANNELLED
Review: "Current Emergency Diagnosis and Treatment" is an ideal reference text, which provides timely information for both inpatient and ambulatory monitors.
This book is full of valuable advice on how to handle both trauma and non-trauma emergencies. It is versatile: with improved sections on paediatrics and cardiology.
The ease with which one finds information in this book shows that its structure is truly emergency-channelled. It is an important text whose timely information would benefit both doctors and patients. But, I must add that its handling of chemical pathology fell short of my expectation.

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Summary: Belongs in every Emergency Department
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I've been buying each new edition of the Lange series Emergency Medicine texts since they started coming out, and even though I'm no longer in active practice, I'll certainly be purchasing the 5th edition as soon as it comes available in January 2003. As a quick baseline reference and refresher oriented to the needs of the emergency medicine practitioner (and that includes NPs and PAs as well as us doctorly types), CEDT saves time and angst. It's also readable, reasonably well-referenced, and cheap enough to keep in the department without fearing that some light-fingered student or resident is licking his chops over the thought of walking off with the damned thing.
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Summary: Excellent reference; good review
Review: Having first seen this book in an emergency room where I was working, I thumbed through it and found it to be a good reminder of the many things to know. The book is well organized and easy to scan. In the few moments of down time, I enjoyed flipping through the pages and testing my knowledge. Regardless of your role in the medical community, this book is a good one to have around. While this one is the 4th Edition, I understand the 5th Edition will be coming on in January 2003. Best of luck and happy reading.