Stead (emergency medicine, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine) et al. provide a study and clinical diagnosis guide for emergency medicine based on the American College of Emergency Physicians and Society of Academic Emergency Medicine recommendations for fourth-year medical students, as well as information from the Core Curriculum developed by the Residency Review Committee. Following tips on how to succeed in an emergency medicine clerkship, high-yield facts about resuscitation, diagnostics, trauma, procedures, toxicology, environmental emergencies, emergencies of the various organ systems, and ethics, medicolegal issues, and evidence-based medicine are reviewed in an outline format. This edition includes study boxes, updated American Heart Association Guidelines for CPR, ACLS, and management of ST elevation MI, and ATLS guidelines from the American College of Surgeons. No bibliography is supplied. Annotation ©2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)