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Reader' Reviews

A Distant Third... / / 2010-05-19
If textbooks were judged by their weight, this one would be worth every penny of its purchase price. For better or worse, textbooks are judged by content and this one is lacking. The book itself is really a collection of articles on ER related topics from a variety of authors. The articles are repetitious, contain a lot of extraneous irrelevant information, and often conflict with one another. The antibiotic recommendations are hopelessly out of date. In general, a poorly written, poorly edited work which is a distant in the world of EM texts. Save your money.

?????? / / 2009-11-01
After 30 days I still not received the book. The book I do not Know but delivery is not recomendedEmergency Medicine: A Comprehensive Study Guide 6th edition

Excellent but... / / 2008-10-22
I am very appreciative of all of the work that went into this book. It is superb in many ways. I owned the 4th edition and I see many, many improvements, not just that the book is being updated, but expanded and made better. HOWEVER, I have one relatively big complaint. There may be some who, at appropriate times, will read through this book cover to cover, or chapter by chapter - however, for many, many of us, the book is used as a reference source. HENCE the INDEX is a key component of the book. And here, the book loses a full star (or maybe two) - the index is simply not comprehensive. Two examples - "Ciguatera poisioning" - I looked under "ciguatera" under "fish" under "toxin" and under "food poisoning" - could not find it. I know it is in the book - there is a table that includes it as one of the sources of vomiting, but where is it? [I found the information I needed on the CDC website!!] Another example - "cecal volvulus" - looked under "volvulus" nothing. Under "cecum" - nothing. "Bowel obstruction" - nope. "Obstruction" nothing. "Small bowel obstruction" - finally found a reference in the index, but ultimately cannot find anything on cecal volvulus. I suspect that there MUST be something about volvulus in the Pediatric section on GI emergencies, but it should not be this hard, and I am not looking for a reference solely to children anyway. These are just two examples - I could offer many more. So, my humble suggestion - please work on the Index!! Isn't there a program that can do this relatively automatically - and painlessly? Information is great - quick ready access to that information is even better! Maybe I should just Google it? ;) Also, I have noticed some really lame illustrations - they look like mimeographed copies of copies - really hard to believe, especially since most of the illustrations are very high quality. In general I would like to see more illustrations within the text, particularly radiographic findings. The Color Atlas is kind of a joke, but there are many other sources for this kind of material.

Emergency medicine, a comprehensive study guide [6th ed] / / 2008-07-27
Excellent reference work, recognised in NZ as the standard. Found in every ED in this country. Very worthwhile purchasing my own copy, to have to refer to when I want. Contains some very useful material, although have found some thinking I consider to be out of date. I understand 7th ed may be in the works.

Gold standard / / 2007-01-11
As an ER PA this is the gold standard to start with. Rosens is much more detailed but is too much to start with. I've found most everything I need is in this text.