Chapter content presented in concise format, providing easy access to facts and figures, with supporting references.

Thoroughly updated content and added scoring systems for the second edition

Illustrates the differences between studied therapies and conventional therapies

Chapter on Acute Coronary Syndrome expounds upon the risk and benefit of thrombolysis and cardiac catheterization and helps make sense of the issue of timing

Chapter on CHF includes the Killip classification

Chapter on Acute Stroke Syndrome contains the NINDS study stroke scale

Chapter on Pulmonary Embolus provides tools to risk stratify and provides information on how to use alveolar dead space measurement to help exclude this disorder

Chapter on Community Acquired Pneumonia introduces readers to the PORT scale.

Section on Toxicology reviews common toxins and helps to make sense of the use of activated charcoal and specific antidotes

Available in PDA format