Cline (emergency medicine, Wake Forest School of Medicine) et al. review emergency medicine topics in an outline format. In 194 chapters, emergency medicine specialists from North America cover test preparation and planning for various exams; resuscitation techniques; analgesia, anesthesia, and procedural sedation; emergency wound management; emergencies in each body system and pediatrics, environmental emergencies, psychosocial disorders, and abuse and assault; and administration issues. This edition has been updated to reflect advances in diagnostic imaging; has new chapters on hematologic-oncologic emergencies, renal emergencies in children, low probability coronary syndromes, urinary retention, food and water-borne diseases, and world travelers; has more drawings, radiographs and images, electrocardiograms, and tables; and has more on toxicology and trauma. Readers are directed to the parent textbook, Tintalli's Emergency Medicine: A Comprehensive Study Guide, for references. Annotation ©2013 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)