Brian Rowe & Eddy S. Lang 
Evidence-Based Emergency Medicine 

Emergency physicians assess and manage a wide variety of problems
from patients presenting with a diversity of severities, ranging
from mild to severe and life-threatening. They are expected to
maintain their competency and expertise in areas where there is
rapid knowledge change.

Evidence-based Emergency Medicine is the first book of
its kind in emergency medicine to tackle the problems practicing
physicians encounter in the emergency setting using an
evidence-based approach. It summarizes the published evidence
available for the diagnosis and treatment of common emergency
health care problems in adults. Each chapter contextualizes a topic
area using a clinical vignette and generates a series of key
clinically important diagnostic and treatment questions. By
completing detailed reviews of diagnostic and treatment research,
using evidence from systematic reviews, RCTs, and prospective
observational studies, the authors provide conclusions and
practical recommendations.

Focusing primarily on diagnosis in areas where evidence for
treatment is well accepted (e.g. DVTs), and treatment in other
diseases where diagnosis is not complex (e.g. asthma), this text is
written by leading emergency physicians at the forefront of
evidence-based medicine. Evidence-based Emergency Medicine
is ideal for emergency physicians and trainees, emergency
department staff, and family physicians specialising in the acute
care of medical and injured patients.

About the author

Chief Editor:

Brian H. Rowe, MD, MSc, CCFP(EM), FCCP

Canada Research Chair in Emergency Airway Diseases

Professor and Research Director, Department of Emergency
Medicine,

University of Alberta

Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Section Editors:

Eddy S. Lang, MDCM, CCFP(EM), CSPQ

Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine

Department of Family Medicine

Mc Gill University

Montreal

and Attending Physician, Emergency Medicine

SMBD Jewish General Hospital, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Michael D. Brown, MD, MSc

Professor of Epidemiology and Emergency Medicine

College of Human Medicine, Michigan State University

Spectrum Health – Butterworth Hospitals

Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA

Debra Houry, MD, MPH

Director, Center for Injury Control

Vice Chair for Research

Department of Emergency Medicine, Emory University

Atlanta, Georgia, USA

David H. Newman, MD

Assistant Professor

Department of Medicine

Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons

New York, USA

Peter C. Wyer, MD

Associate Clinical Professor, Department of Medicine

Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons

New York, USA