This is a truly practical guide aimed at the junior physician or casualty officer which explains what to do when faced with medical emergencies "on take", on the ward or in the Accident and Emergency department. In this Second Edition, the authors have thoroughly revised all chapters to take into account the advances in diagnosis and treatment which have taken place over the past five years. A chapter on acute abdominal pain has been added to Section One, chapters on haemoptysis, acute pancreatitis and transient ischaemic attack to Section Two and inclusion of further clinical data in Section Four. There is also a new and expanded set of ECG traces