William H. Seligman - Pre-hospital Emergency Medicine at a Glance

This edition first published 2018
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Seligman, William, 1990- author. | Ganatra, Sameer, author. | Parker,
Timothy, 1989- author. | Masud, Syed, 1972- author.
Title: Pre-hospital emergency medicine at a glance / William Seligman, Sameer
Ganatra, Timothy Parker, Syed Masud.
Other titles: At a glance series (Oxford, England).
Description: Hoboken, NJ : John Wiley & Sons Ltd, 2018. | Series: At a glance
series | Includes index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2017000447 (print) | LCCN 2017001693 (ebook) | ISBN
9781118829929 (pbk.) | ISBN 9781118829950 (Adobe PDF) | ISBN 9781118829967
(ePub)
Subjects: | MESH: Emergency Medical Servicesmethods | Emergency
Treatmentmethods | Emergencies | Critical Caremethods | Handbooks
Classification: LCC RC86.8 (print) | LCC RC86.8 (ebook) | NLM WB 39 | DDC
616.02/5dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017000447

Cover image: Courtesy of Syed Masud

Pre-hospital Emergency Medicine is an innovative and exciting new sub-specialty that is saving lives and has great potential to change the way medicine is practised. The sub-specialty has grown exponentially since its inception and has enormous potential to answer research questions that will benefit patients both outside and within the hospital.

Although it has a short history, we must remember that the sub-specialty emerged not only from the ambulance service but also from doctors who decided to travel to patients on the roadside with limited equipment, in order to deliver whatever care they could. It is from these humble beginnings that the sub-specialty has developed into the incredibly influential model of care seen today in modern pre-hospital emergency units.