Abstract
The evaluation of emergency medicine textbooks is difficult because the depth and breadth of material that needs to be addressed is so extensive. However,<i>Emergency Medicine: A Comprehensive Review</i>does include all important emergency medicine topics, some in considerable and scholarly depth. Part I is devoted to the organizational aspects of the specialty and to multiorgan disease. Sections are provided on emergency medical services, shock and trauma, metabolic and endocrine emergencies, general emergencies, pediatrics, environment, psychiatry, and behavioral emergencies. The section on general emergencies includes topics that would not fit into separate sections: gastrointestinal tract, burns, infectious disease, dermatology, and poisoning and overdose. Part II is divided into sections by organ system: CNS, cardiovascular, pulmonary, genitourinary and gynecologic, and head and neck. Appendix I is a procedure atlas and appendix II is a drug index. The style of the text is readable and explicit. Every section has material that will
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