Web-based references relating to the number under the disk sign, listed by page header 
Emergencies
1 Advanced Trauma Life Support 1993 Am. Col. Surg.
page 767
2 CPR Guidelines 1997 Resus Council
(UK); page 767
Headache: differential diagnosis
No links
Breathlessness: emergency presentations
No links
Chest pain: differential diagnosis
No links
Coma
No links
The Glasgow coma scale (GCS)
3 G Teasdale 1974 Lancetii 81 page 776
Shock
4 RL Paterson J.R.Coll.Surg.Edinb., 45, June 2000,
178-182; page 779
5 bnf 2000 ii 154 & P Ewan 1997 Prescribes' J
37(3) 125 779
Anaphylactic shock
6 and 7 No link available
Acute myocardial infarction
(footnote) Circulation 1998 Nov 24;98(21):2227-34 Diaz R,
Paolasso EA, Piegas LS, Tajer CD, Moreno MG, Corvalan R, Isea JE, Romero G.
Metabolic modulation of acute myocardial infarction. The ECLA (Estudios
Cardiologicos Latinoamerica) Collaborative Group. English
[Link]; page
783
(footnote) Am J Cardiol; 2005 Oct 15 ; 96(8):1053-8. pudmed
ID@16214437 783
Acute coronary syndrome-without ST elevation
8 1 British Thoracic Society 1997 Guidelines Thorax
52(Suppl.) ps1-s21; page 784
9 1 British Thoracic Society 1997 Guidelines Thorax
52(Suppl.) ps1-s21; page 785
(footnote) N Engl J Med. 2004 Apr 8;350(15):1495-504. Epub
2004 Mar 8. Cannon CP, Braunwald E, McCabe CH, Rader DJ, Rouleau JL, Belder R,
Joyal SV, Hill KA, Pfeffer MA, Skene AM; Pravastatin or Atorvastatin Evaluation
and Infection Therapy-Thrombolysis in Myocardial Infarction 22 Investigators
Intensive versus moderate lipid lowering with statins after acute coronary
syndromes. English
[Link]
785
Severe pulmonary oedema
10 N Engl J Med; 2004 Nov 11 ; 351(20):2049-57
[Link]; page
786
11 N Engl J Med; 2000 Jul 27 ; 343(4):246-53 pubmed
@10911006; page 786
12 Lancet; 1998 Feb 7 ; 351(9100):389-93 PubMed ID:
9482291; page 787
Cardiogenic shock
No links
Broad complex tachycardia
No links
Narrow complex tachycardia
No links
Acute severe asthma
13 British Thoracic Scoiety Guidelines Thorax
2003;58:Suppl II; page 794
14 The BTS/SIGN British Guideline on the Management
of Asthma 2005
[Link]; page
795
Acute exacerbations of COPD
No links
Pneumothorax
No links
Tension pneumothorax
No links
Pneumonia
15 BTS Update on the management of community
acquired pneumonia in adults 2004
[Link]; page
800
Massive pulmonary embolism (PE)
No links
Acute upper gastrointestinal bleeding
16 BSG Non-variceal upper GI haemorrhage:
guidenlines Gut 2002 51 suppl IV 1-6; page 804
17 NEJM 2002;347:1594; page
804
18 1 N White Lancet 1999 353 1965
[Link]
viewpoint 1965.html; page 804
19 TA Rockall Gut 1996;38:316-21; page
805
Meningitis/ Emergency management of encephalitis
20 Image of glass test for purpura courtesy of the
Meningitis Research Foundation
[Link]
806
21 N Engl J Med; 2001 Dec 13 ; 345(24):1727-33
PubMed ID: 11742046; page 806
21 The Lancet 2006; 367:397-403
DOI:10.1016/S0140-6736(06)67932-4 Clinical recognition of meningococcal disease
in children and adolescents
[Link]; page
806
22 British Infection Society 2005 consensus
statement
[Link]
807
23 Fluid therapy for acute bacterial meningitis.
Author: Oates-Whitehead R, Maconochie I, Baumer H, Stewart M. Journal: Cochrane
Database Syst Rev; 2005 ; (3):CD004786. PubMed ID: 16034949.
[Link]; page
807
24 P Cowling 2000 BMJ i 247 (a critique of A
Pollard 1999 bmj i 1147)
[Link]; page
807
25 eMedicine; Encephalitis
[Link]
807
(footnote) British Infection Society 2004
[Link]; page
807
(footnote) Activated protein C
[Link]
807
Status epilepticus
No links
Head injury
No links
Raised intracranial pressure
No links
Diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA)
No links
Other diabetic emergencies
26 S Afr Med J. 1995 Mar;85(3):173-6. Hyperosmolar
non-ketotic diabetic coma as a cause of emergency hyperglycaemic admission to
Baragwanath Hospital. Rolfe M
[Link]; page
816
Thyroid emergencies
No links
Addisonian crisis
No links
Hypopituitary crisis
No links
Phaeochromocytoma emergencies
No links
Acute renal failure (ARF)-management
27 Oxford Textbook of Medicine, 3e 3280
820
Acute poisoning – general measures
No links
Acute poisoning – specific points
No links
Some specific poisons and their antidotes
28 2 In the uk: 01865
221332/220968/220279; page 827
29 Help on the web uk gps and other nhs workers and
departments may register withtoxbase at for free up-to-date toxicological
advice.
[Link]; page
827
Salicylate poisoning
No links
Paracetemol poisoning
No links
Burns
30 Application of cerium nitrate-silver
sulphadiazine allows for postponement of excision and grafting. Author:
Vehmeyer-Heeman M, Tondu T, Van den Kerckhove E, Boeckx W. Journal: Burns; 2006
Feb ; 32(1):60-3. PubMed ID: 16380214.
[Link]; page
830
(footnote) an adult patient with burns,is the Lund and
Browder chart better than the Rule of Nines at accurately assessing the area of
the wound. July 2005.
[Link]; page
831
Hypothermia
No links
Major disasters
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