History Taking Examination and Record Keeping in Emergency Medicine

Good records are essential in Accident and Emergency medicine for adequate clinical care as well as for medico-legal reasons. This book explains the reasons for keeping good records and describes how AandE records should be kept both in general terms and emphasising the essential information to be recorded with different mechanisms of injury and in different anatomical sites. Some proformas for collecting information on specific injuries are given and there are many examples of appropriate notes. This book is essential reading for the new AandE doctor and AandE nurse practitioner.