Emergencies nearly always present first to the junior doctor. This reference aims to give the junior doctor the confidence to recognise these and manage them. It is concise, didactic and an excellent complement to the Oxford Handbook of Clinical Medicine.
Piers Page, SHO, Intensive Care Medicine, James Cook University Hospital, Middlesborough, UK,
Greg Skinner, SHO, Paediatric Cardiology, Freeman Road Hospital Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
Oxford University Press makes no representation, express or implied, that the drug dosages in this book are correct. Readers must therefore always check the product information and clinical procedures with the most up to date published product information and data sheets provided by the manufacturers and the most recent codes of conduct and safety regulations. The authors and the publishers do not accept responsibility or legal liability for any errors in the text or for the misuse or misapplication of material in this work.
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Chest pain
Haemoptysis
Haematemesis
Sudden weakness
