Emergency Medicine

532

INDEX

conjunctiva 420
diarrhoea 148
hepatitis 147
risk with sharps/needlestick injury
152–3
respiratory, children 349, 350, 352–3
visceral perforation 262–3
vision
acuity, assessment 410
loss/failure
falls in elderly due to 120
sudden 422–5
vital signs assessment
cardiac arrhythmias 61
confused patient 82
febrile neutropenia 146
injuries
cervical spine 224
multiple 218
shock 17, 20, 22
stroke 96
vitreous haemorrhage 424
volar Barton’s fracture 291
Volkmann’s ischaemic contracture 283
vomiting (emesis)
acute abdomen 258
child 357–61
von Willebrand’s disease, traumatic
arthritis 107, 108

Wallace’s Rule of Nines 251
warming/rewarming in hypothermia 10,
206, 207
wasp stings 199
water loss, hypernatraemia with 135–6
web space infections of hand 326
Wernicke’s encephalopathy 25, 85, 92
wheeze and laryngeal oedema 28
whiplash injury 230
whole bowel irrigation 168
withdrawal (drugs and alcohol) 441
worms (helminths) 162
wound management 318–23
wrist injuries 288–301
wry neck 327

X-ray radiography
abdominal pain (acute) 257, 258
inflammatory bowel disease 263

intussusception 261

ischaemic colitis 266

pancreatitis 268

renal and ureteric colic 268

splenic rupture 267

abdominal trauma 238, 241

knee fractures 307

lower limb injuries

ankle 310–11

femoral neck fractures 303

patellar fractures 305

maxillofacial injury 430, 431

ocular foreign body 416

pelvic trauma 239, 242

skull in head injury 31, 248

spine

cervical 221–2, 226–7, 248

thoracolumbar 245

tooth injury 428

upper limb injuries

carpal injuries 294, 295

elbow dislocation 285

olecranon fractures 287

pulled elbow 286

radial distal fractures 289, 290, 291,

292

radial head fractures 287

radial shaft fractures 288

shoulder dislocation (anterior) 279

ulnar shaft fractures 288

zygomatic and zygomaticomaxillary

complex fracture 431–2