Emergency Medicine

INDEX

517

jellyfish 198
snake bite 193
fish, poisonous 198
fish bone 405, 406
flail chest 32, 220, 232
flash burns 212, 214
eye (arc eye) 414–15
flexor tendons of hand
injuries 300
suppurative tenosynovitis 325
flu’, pandemic 163
fluid loss, hypernatraemia with 135–6
fluid replacement/resuscitation (i.v.
circulatory volume restoration)
abdominal pain (acute) 257
anaphylaxis, children 352
aortic rupture 235, 265
burns 252–3
cervical spine injury 228
dehydrated child 359–60
gastrointestinal haemorrhage (upper)
77–8
hypothermia 206
lightning strike 216
multiple injury 220–1
renal failure 144
shock 18–19, 20–1, 23
see also rehydration
flukes 162
flumazenil 176
fluorescein corneal stain 410
fluorosis, systemic 190
focused assessment by sonography for
trauma (FAST), blunt abdominal
trauma 239
foot injuries 312–15
Ottawa rules (for X-rays) 310
forearm injuries 283–8
foreign body
ear 396–7
eye 414–15, 416
ingested (pharyngoesophageal) 405–6
inhaled (and choking) 13–14
child 342, 354–5
nasal 402
foreign travel, imported infections 149,
158–63
forensic examination, rape 392
fracture(s)

cervical spine 226, 227

child abuse 373

compound, wound management 246,

320

falls causing

elderly 121

from height 313

limbs 246, 247

ankle/foot 310, 311, 312–13, 315

concealed blood loss 246

elbow/forearm 283–5, 286–8

hip/upper femur 303–4

lower femur/knee/upper tibia

305–6, 307

shoulder/upper arm 277, 278, 279,

281–2

wrist and hand 288–94, 294–6,

297–9

maxillofacial 222, 430, 431–3

midface 222, 433

nasal 401–2

orbital 415, 432

pelvic 222, 239, 241, 242, 244

in pregnancy 387

pubic bone 242, 303

rib 232

skull see skull fracture

sternal 232

fracture–dislocation

Barton’s 291

tarsometatarsal 315

frozen shoulder 327–8

frusemide (furosemide)

hypercalcaemia 138

hypermagnesaemia 140

hypokalaemia 134

pulmonary oedema 75

full-thickness burns 252, 253, 254

electrical 212, 213, 214, 215

funnel-web spider 196, 197

furosemide see frusemide

furunculosis, external ear 398–9

Galeazzi fracture 288

gas embolism in pulmonary barotrauma,

arterial 211

gastric distension, head injury 33

gastric erosions 76

gastric lavage 169