CONTENTS -- CONTRIBUTING AUTHORS -- PREFACE -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- I. CARDIOPULMONARY ARREST -- 1. CARDIOPULMONARY RESUSCITATION -- 2. RAPID SEQUENCE INTUBATION -- II. TRAUMA -- 3. INITIAL ASSESSMENT OF THE MULTIPLE TRAUMA PATIENT -- 4. HEAD, NECK, AND FACIAL TRAUMA -- 5. EYE AND PERIORBITAL TRAUMA -- 6. CHEST TRAUMA -- 7. ABDOMINAL TRAUMA -- 8. PELVIC TRAUMA -- 9. GENITOURINARY TRAUMA -- 10. EXTREMITY TRAUMA -- 11. TRAUMA IN PREGNANCY -- III. EYE, EAR, NOSE, AND THROAT DISORDERS -- 12. EAR PAIN -- 13. EPISTAXIS -- 14. FACIAL PAIN-ATRAUMATIC -- 15. HOARSENESS -- 16. SORE THROAT -- 17. RED EYE -- 18. VISUAL DISTURBANCES DOUBLE VISION -- IV. RESPIRATORY DISORDERS -- 19. COUGH -- 20. HEMOPTYSIS -- 21. SHORTNESS OF BREATH -- 22. MECHANICAL VENTILATION -- V. CARDIOVASCULAR DISORDERS -- 23. CHEST PAIN -- 24. HYPERTENSION -- 25. PALPITATIONS -- VI. GASTROINTESTINAL DISORDERS -- 26. ABDOMINAL PAIN -- 27. CONSTIPATION AND DIARRHEA -- 28. GASTROINTESTINAL BLEEDING -- 29. HICCUPS (SINGULTUS) -- 30. JAUNDICE -- 31. NAUSEA AND VOMITING -- VII. GENITOURINARY AND PREGNANCY-RELATED DISORDERS -- 32. HEMATURIA -- 33. SEXUALLY ACQUIRED DISORDERS -- 34. HIV DISEASE AND AIDS -- 35. SEXUAL ASSAULT -- 36. TESTICULAR, SCROTAL, AND INGUINAL PAIN OR SWELLING -- 37. VAGINAL BLEEDING -- 38. CHILDBIRTH AND EMERGENCY DELIVERY -- 39. DRUG THERAPY IN PREGNANCY -- VIII. NEUROLOGIC DISORDERS -- 40. COMA, SEIZURES, AND OTHER DISORDERS OF CONSCIOUSNESS -- 41. STROKE AND SYNCOPE -- 42. DIZZINESS -- 43. HEADACHE -- 44. WEAKNESS -- IX. MUSCULOSKELETAL AND SOFT-TISSUE DISORDERS -- 45. ABSCESSES -- 46. BACK PAIN -- 47. EXTREMITY PAIN AND SWELLING-ATRAUMATIC -- 48. JOINT PAIN-ATRAUMATIC.

49. ABRASIONS, AVULSIONS, LACERATIONS, AND PUNCTURE WOUNDS -- X. ENVIRONMENTAL EMERGENCIES -- 50. DIVING ACCIDENTS -- 51. NEAR DROWNING -- 52. ELECTRICAL AND LIGHTNING INJURIES -- 53. HIGH-ALTITUDE ILLNESS -- 54. RADIATION INJURY -- 55. SMOKE INHALATION -- 56. BURNS -- 57. HEAT ILLNESS AND COLD EXPOSURE -- 58. BITES AND STINGS -- XI. SELECTED PEDIATRIC EMERGENCIES -- 59. CHILD ABUSE -- 60. FEVER -- 61. PEDIATRIC SEDATION -- XII. OTHER EMERGENCIES -- 62. FOREIGN BODIES -- 63. ONCOLOGIC EMERGENCIES -- 64. PAIN MANAGEMENT -- 65. POISONING AND INGESTIONS -- 66. RASHES -- XIII. PSYCHIATRIC EMERGENCIES -- 67. EVALUATION OF PSYCHIATRIC PATIENTS IN THE EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT -- 68. MANAGING AGITATION AND AGGRESSION IN THE EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT -- 69. EVALUATING THE SUICIDAL PATIENT IN THE EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT -- 70. EVALUATION AND MANAGEMENT OF DRUG AND ALCOHOL PROBLEMS IN THE EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT -- INDEX.