A major postgraduate textbook in emergency medicine, covering all the major topics that present to the trainee doctor in the emergency department.

• A comprehensive textbook of adult emergency medicine for trainee doctors - covers all the problems likely to present to a trainee in the emergency department.
• Chapters are short and concise, with key point boxes (called "Essentials") at the beginning.
• Also has boxes featuring controversial areas of treatment.
• Practical and clinically orientated.

• Major changes to resuscitation guidelines.
• Complete rewriting of ENT section.
• Significant updating of following topics - acute coronary syndrome management, trauma, sepsis management, imaging, arrhythmias.
• Expansion of administration section - especially patient safety.
• Changes to drug overdose sections in toxicology section.