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The hospital emergency department
BOOK
The
Hospital
REVIEWS
Department. f3.1 pages. $18.75 Springfield, III. Charles C Thomas, 1972. Thomas
H.
Emergency
Spencer.
351
The book reflects the author’s interest and experience in emergency care gained in professional and administrative involvement with wide exposure to the inherent problems through surveys and visits to hospitals and emergency centers in the U.S. and abroad. Some material on fundamentals in medical, surgical, and psychiatric emergency care is included, but the book is primarily intended as a comprehensive discussion and guide for planning, building, equipping, staffing, and administering the emergency department. The author has commendably included chapters by other experts in the fields of architecture and business law as well as surgery, internal medicine, and psychiatry. The central theme is stated in the author’s preface: “I firmly believe that emergency departments should be for emergencies and that all planning should focus on this belief.” He stresses adaptation of planning to realistic appraisal and categorization of the extent of care the hospital is prepared to give relative to its own potential and the needs and other local facilities of the community it serves.
BOOKS
OF INTEREST
Nonoperative Aspects of Pediatric Surgery. By Richard S. Owings. 146 pages, illustrated. St. Louis, Green, 1973. Surgical Lung Diseases in Childhood. By W. Poradowska,
S. Reszke.
and S. Kubicz.
292
pages, illustrated. $6.75. Warsaw, Polish Medical Publishers, 1972. Exercises in Diagnostic Radiology: Vol. 5, Pediatrics. By Richard M. Heller and Lucy
Journal ofPediatric
Surgery,
The book consists of 24 chapters covering multiple facets that are highlighted by division into chapters to focus discussion on important aspects. The material deals with emergency care in general hospitals, but most of the principles, issues, and problems discussed are applicable to children’s hospitals and pediatric emergency care to a large degree. Encompassing a spectrum of closely related topics, overlap of chapter content is frequent and variable depth of presentation exists. However, sufficient detail and discussion are given to provide a useful orientation and guidance in emergency care delivery, its needs, responsibilities, problems, and suggested solutions. It fills a need in bringing together various facets of emphasis and can be recommended as a useful and instructive framework in the organization of effective emergency care. The style is lucid and easy to read. The chapter division is convenient and the index is useful. The bibliography, however, is limited and recent references are fewer than one would anticipate. The book is beautifully bound and clearly printed on good-quality paper.--Maurice N. Srouji
Frank Squite. 162 pages, 239 illustrations. $5.95. Philadelphia, Saunders, 1973. PIdiatrische Radiologie. & F. Schmid. 580 pages, illustrated. DM 248,-; $78.70. Berlin, H.eidelberg, New York, Springer-Verlag. 1973. Angiography of Trauma. B.v F. U. Whei-Rung. Illustrated. Sll.75. Springfield, Ill. Charles C Thomas, 1972.
Vol. 8. No. 4 (August). 1973
571
The
Hospital
REVIEWS
Department. f3.1 pages. $18.75 Springfield, III. Charles C Thomas, 1972. Thomas
H.
Emergency
Spencer.
351
The book reflects the author’s interest and experience in emergency care gained in professional and administrative involvement with wide exposure to the inherent problems through surveys and visits to hospitals and emergency centers in the U.S. and abroad. Some material on fundamentals in medical, surgical, and psychiatric emergency care is included, but the book is primarily intended as a comprehensive discussion and guide for planning, building, equipping, staffing, and administering the emergency department. The author has commendably included chapters by other experts in the fields of architecture and business law as well as surgery, internal medicine, and psychiatry. The central theme is stated in the author’s preface: “I firmly believe that emergency departments should be for emergencies and that all planning should focus on this belief.” He stresses adaptation of planning to realistic appraisal and categorization of the extent of care the hospital is prepared to give relative to its own potential and the needs and other local facilities of the community it serves.
BOOKS
OF INTEREST
Nonoperative Aspects of Pediatric Surgery. By Richard S. Owings. 146 pages, illustrated. St. Louis, Green, 1973. Surgical Lung Diseases in Childhood. By W. Poradowska,
S. Reszke.
and S. Kubicz.
292
pages, illustrated. $6.75. Warsaw, Polish Medical Publishers, 1972. Exercises in Diagnostic Radiology: Vol. 5, Pediatrics. By Richard M. Heller and Lucy
Journal ofPediatric
Surgery,
The book consists of 24 chapters covering multiple facets that are highlighted by division into chapters to focus discussion on important aspects. The material deals with emergency care in general hospitals, but most of the principles, issues, and problems discussed are applicable to children’s hospitals and pediatric emergency care to a large degree. Encompassing a spectrum of closely related topics, overlap of chapter content is frequent and variable depth of presentation exists. However, sufficient detail and discussion are given to provide a useful orientation and guidance in emergency care delivery, its needs, responsibilities, problems, and suggested solutions. It fills a need in bringing together various facets of emphasis and can be recommended as a useful and instructive framework in the organization of effective emergency care. The style is lucid and easy to read. The chapter division is convenient and the index is useful. The bibliography, however, is limited and recent references are fewer than one would anticipate. The book is beautifully bound and clearly printed on good-quality paper.--Maurice N. Srouji
Frank Squite. 162 pages, 239 illustrations. $5.95. Philadelphia, Saunders, 1973. PIdiatrische Radiologie. & F. Schmid. 580 pages, illustrated. DM 248,-; $78.70. Berlin, H.eidelberg, New York, Springer-Verlag. 1973. Angiography of Trauma. B.v F. U. Whei-Rung. Illustrated. Sll.75. Springfield, Ill. Charles C Thomas, 1972.
Vol. 8. No. 4 (August). 1973
571