Product Description: This book describes the fight to create a new medical specialty of accident and emergency medicine against much opposition from established specialties. The specialty was first recognized in 1972. The book also charts the major developments that occurred in the first 30 years of emergency medicine...read more

Product Description: Good records are essential in Accident & Emergency medicine for adequate clinical care as well as for medico-legal reasons. This book explains the reasons for keeping good records and describes how A&E records should be kept both in general terms and emphasizes the essential information to be recorded with different mechanisms of injury and in different anatomical sites...read more