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This textbook, edited by an emergency physician, was developed to fulfill the emergency room physicians' need for a readily available resource to consult for problems in ophthalmology, otolaryngology, and oral-maxillofacial surgery. The contributed chapters are co-authored by respective specialists and emergency physicians. The text is organized according to the system involved, with chapters on eye emergencies, ear emergencies, nose and paranasal sinsus emergencies, mouth emergencies, throat emergencies, and facial trauma. The authors discuss a multitude of entities that might be encountered in the emergency department. This brief book does not allow in-depth discussion of any topic. In many instances, unusual or rare diseases are given equal emphasis to commonly encountered clinical problems. Bacterial sinusitis is discussed in a single paragraph, while extrapulmonary aspergillosis, mucormycosis, paracoccidioidomycosis, and petrielliediosis are all discussed in individual paragraphs. This tends to dilute the value of the text and transform it into a series of lists. Similarly, the technical aspects of the emergency department management of epistaxis is relegated to a single sente

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Author

Michael Pollay

Publisher

Wiley (John Wiley & Sons); John Wiley & Sons Inc.; Wiley (ISSN 0148-6403)

Published

1987

Language

EN

Field

Medicine (Health Sciences)