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Edited by Robert D. Herr and Rita K. Cydulka. 808 pp., illustrated. Philadelphia, J.B. Lippincott, 1994. $98. ISBN 0-397-51285-6.

Physicians might assume that Emergency Care of the Compromised Patient is a book about the care of immunocompromised patients. Though it does include such patients, the scope of the book is far more comprehensive. This textbook describes the evaluation and treatment of the acute problems that occur in patients with previously diagnosed medical conditions.

Medical students (and viewers of the television series ER) may assume that the practice of emergency medicine consists entirely of patients with such problems as acute myocardial infarction, ruptured aneurysm, and multiple trauma. In reality, the majority of patients seen in the emergency room have . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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