ACUTE MEDICAL EMERGENCIES

This book has been written to enable health care workers to understand the principles of managing an acute medical emergency safely and effectively.To achieve this aim it provides a structured approach to medical emergencies, describing relevant pathophysiology that will also help to explain This book has been written to enable health care workers to understand the principles of managing an acute medical emergency safely and effectively.To achieve this aim it provides a structured approach to medical emergencies, describing relevant pathophysiology that will also help to explain physical signs and the rationale behind treatment.The first edition of this manual (written by Terry Wardle) has undergone significant modification directed by the working group and also, in particular, candidates from the first MedicALS courses. The requirements of these contributing doctors has meant that the contents and associated information may initially appear skewed – but this is evidence based. more