Book description
Emergency physicians assess and manage a wide variety of problems from
patients presenting with a diversity of severities, ranging from mild to
severe and life-threatening. They are expected to maintain their
competency and expertise in areas where there is rapid knowledge change.
Evidence-based Emergency Medicine is the first book of its kind
in emergency medicine to tackle the problems practicing physicians
encounter in the emergency setting using an evidence-based approach.
It summarizes the published evidence available for the diagnosis and
treatment of common emergency health care problems in adults. Each
chapter contextualizes a topic area using a clinical vignette and
generates a series of key clinically important diagnostic and
treatment questions. By completing detailed reviews of diagnostic and
treatment research, using evidence from systematic reviews, RCTs, and
prospective observational studies, the authors provide conclusions and
practical recommendations.
Focusing primarily on diagnosis in areas where evidence for treatment
is well accepted (e. g. DVTs), and treatment in other diseases where
diagnosis is not complex (e. g. asthma), this text is written by
leading emergency physicians at the forefront of evidence-based
medicine. Evidence-based Emergency Medicine is ideal for
emergency physicians and trainees, emergency department staff, and
family physicians specialising in the acute care of medical and
injured patients.
Chief Editor:
Brian H. Rowe, MD, MSc, CCFP(EM), FCCP
Canada Research Chair in
Emergency Airway Diseases
Professor and Research Director,
Department of Emergency Medicine,
University of
Alberta
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Section Editors:
Eddy S. Lang, MDCM, CCFP(EM), CSPQ
Assistant Professor of
Emergency Medicine
Department of Family Medicine
McGill University
Montreal
and Attending Physician, Emergency Medicine
SMBD Jewish
General Hospital, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Michael D. Brown, MD, MSc
Professor of Epidemiology and
Emergency Medicine
College of Human Medicine, Michigan State
University
Spectrum Health - Butterworth Hospitals
Grand
Rapids, Michigan, USA
Debra Houry, MD, MPH
Director, Center for Injury
Control
Vice Chair for Research
Department of Emergency
Medicine, Emory University
Atlanta, Georgia, USA
David H. Newman, MD
Assistant Professor
Department of
Medicine
Columbia University College of Physicians and
Surgeons
New York, USA
Peter C. Wyer, MD
Associate Clinical Professor, Department of
Medicine
Columbia University College of Physicians and
Surgeons
New York, USA
