Revision of: Rosen and Barkin's 5-minute emergency medicine consult.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"Rosen & Barkin's 5-Minute Emergency Medicine Consult has evolved to reflect the unique quality of our practice of emergency medicine. Our clinical environment provides challenges for the clinician; the remarkable breadth of clinical conditions encountered, the time constraints of an acute illness, environmental considerations, and the logistical demands of busy emergency departments (EDs). Time is of the essence! This book is designed to meet the needs of clinicians working in settings providing urgent and emergent care. To look for a diagnosis, one must think of it, and the very nature of the ED makes prolonged deliberation difficult. Nevertheless, it must become instinctive to think about the statistically rare, but clinically serious entity, rather than to just reach for the statistically probable, but non-life-threatening diagnosis"-- Provided by publisher.