The essential emergency medicine reference! Covers the gamut of emergency medicine practice in brief, clinically focused chapters. New to this edition are chapters on bioterrorism and weapons of mass destruction, pharmacology of antimicrobials, antifungals and antivirals, principles of drug interactions, endocarditis and abdominal and pelvic pain in the non-pregnant patient. Pharmacologic considerations, tables of vital differential diagnoses and observation criteria throughout are new features reflecting developments in this dynamic specialty.

Judith E. Tintinalli, MD, MS
Professor and Chair
Department of Emergency Medicine
Adjunct Professor
Department of Health Policy and Administration
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, North Carolina

Gabor D. Kelen, MD
Professor and Chair
Department of Emergency Medicine
Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore, Maryland

J. Stephan Stapczynski, MD
Professor and Former Chair
Department of Emergency Medicine
University of Kentucky College of Medicine
Lexington, Kentucky