Table of Contents

Section A - General principles Section B - Emergency calls Section C - Common calls Section D - Investigations Section E - Practical procedures Section F - Formulary Section G - Laboratory values

About the Author

Professor Tony Brown has written extensively in the medical literature, including a bestselling handbook on emergency medicine now in its seventh edition. He holds a conjoint academic teaching appointment at the University of Queensland School of Medicine, works full-time in clinical emergency medicine and is immediate past Editor-in-Chief of Emergency Medicine Australasia. He was awarded the inaugural Teaching Excellence Award 2001 at the Australasian College for Emergency Medicine; the Excellence in Clinical Teaching Award 2001 at the Royal Brisbane Hospital; and the Outstanding Teaching Award 2015 at the Royal Brisbane Clinical School, University of Queensland School of Medicine. Professor Tony Celenza is the head of the Discipline of Emergency Medicine and coordinates undergraduate education in emergency medicine at UWA. He also is head of the Faculty Education Centre at UWA and is the Director for the MBBS/MD Program. He has designed and coordinates courses in Critical Illness, Wilderness Emergency Medicine, and Neurological, Cardiovascular and Orthopaedic Emergencies for medical students, emergency trainees and rural general practitioners. He has received numerous awards for Excellence in Teaching, including a Citation for Outstanding Contribution to Student Learning by the Australian Learning and Teaching Council.