The Casualty Department

The Casualty Department

THIS is an extremely, valuable book and should be read by everyone interested in surgery, particularly the young graduate in his first hospital appointment. It is well illustrated, and an extensive bibliography is given at the end of each section. In the first three-quarters of the book Mr. Lowden deals with the many common problems met with in a busy casualty department. The chapters on sepsis...

A children's casualty department.

Geriatric emergencies seen in the Casualty Department.

Heroin Addicts in a Casualty Department.

Liver Disease-Bouchier et al. MEDICAL JOURNAL gamma-globulin and that, in liver disease, the antibody is frequently a macroglobulin, while in D.L.E. it is predominantly a 7S gamma-globulin (Weir and Holborow, 1962). Positive A.N.F. tests were found in the absence of a positive L. Mackay and Wood, 1962). Unlike Calabresi and Greenberg's (1960) findings, antinuclear antibodies were not found in t...

Treatment of acute abscesses in the casualty department.

In the treatment of acute pyogenic soft-tissue abscess incision, curettage, and primary suture was compared with incision and drainage alone in a randomised prospective trial. Operations were performed under antibiotic cover by casualty officers, and patients were reviewed by an independent observer in a septic dressing clinic. Altogether 114 patients were studied, of whom 54 were treated by cu...