S. David – Clinical Pathways in Emergency Medicine (2 Volume set, 2016)

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In the history of humankind, Medicine has never been more exciting and challenging
than in the twenty-fi rst century. One of the great challenges of being a contemporary
academic clinician is to fi nd ways to correlate pertinent Basic Sciences to clinical application,
at the bedside. When I set out to prepare Clinical Pathways in Emergency
Medicine , it evoked a thought for contemplation. ‘Do we need one more book in the
specialty of Emergency Medicine?’ That helped to harness an unprecedented approach:
from the perspective of a nascent, yet inquisitive emergency physician who is keen to
understand the rationale of occurrence, manifestation, and management of acute clinical
conditions. And this book differs signifi cantly by providing an algorithm at the end of
each chapter, which, at a glance, provides a roadmap for the journey ahead.
Clinical Pathways in Emergency Medicine is an international congregation of contributors,
who have offered their expertise which has immensely fl avored the global approach
to Emergency Medicine. The authors include a remarkable blend of colleagues, friends,
former students, and new stars on the horizon of Emergency Medicine. A multi-author
manuscript of this nature cannot be delivered without the dedication exhibited by them. In
addition to being luminaries from around the globe, they are among the most progressive
clinicians in various sub-specialties of Emergency Medicine. And I could not have wished
for a better bunch of Section Editors, who superbly orchestrated the creation and revision
of manuscripts. Each one of them is an enviable embodiment of clinical excellence.
Sound clinical experience, coupled with knowledge, based on authoritative books
and peer-reviewed publications, remains the foundation, on which clinical management
needs to be built. In my three decades of clinical practice, I have been humbled multiple
times, by the way in which anecdotal experience and written literature is fl outed by the
human body.
Today’s dogma becomes tomorrow’s heresy. Clinical Pathways in Emergency
Medicine is a compendium of contemporary evidence-based knowledge. However, no
book remains perfect and a shrewd clinician knows very well that the practice of medicine,
based out of a book, has its own limitations. Nevertheless, I am optimistic that this
edition of the book would facilitate satiation to the hunger for knowledge among
increasing numbers of aspirants in the fi eld of Emergency Medicine