**Meet the editor**

Professor Ahmed Subhy Alsheikhly, MD, FRCSI, CABS, MESICM, MACEP, graduated from Salahuddin Medical college in 1983, trained in Baghdad Teaching Hospital (Baghdad University Teaching Hospital) in the departments of pathology and general surgery, then specialized in general and emergency surgery from the Arab Board Council of Health Specializations, followed by

fellowship from the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland. His expertise includes general and emergency surgery, traumatology, and emergency medicine. He is a highly respected surgeon and emergency physician, teacher, and researcher, in addition to being an active member in the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine (ESICM), American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP), World Sepsis Day Organization and many other local and international societies. He is the author of more than thirty peer-reviewed medical articles. He is currently a consultant in the Emergency Department of Hamad Medical Corporation and Weill Cornell Medical College (Qatar).

Contents

**Preface VII**

**Section 1 General Principles 1**

Chapter 2 **Shock 27**

Chapter 1 **Essentials in Accident and Emergency Medicine Radiation**

Thomas J. FitzGerald, Maryann Bishop-Jodoin, Killian Dickson, Yuan-Chyuan Lo, Carla Bradford, Linda Ding, Jessica Hiatt, Harry Bushe, Jonathan Saleeby, I-lin Kuo, Elizabeth Bannon, Kenneth Ulin, David DeSantis, Sherri L. Shul, Bashera Nochomowitz, Julie Trifone, Thomas Quinn, Catherine Whelan, Joshua Taylor, Maureen Britton, Shannon Higgins, Karen Morano, Jean Quigley and Kathleen Briggs

**Injury: Response and Treatment 3**

Rana Jaffer Hamed Hussein

Nor'azim Mohd Yunos

Chapter 5 **Disasters and Disaster Medicine 93** Abdulnasir F. Al-Jazairi

Laura Ann Galdamez

**Section 2 Focused Topics 119**

Chapter 3 **Approach to Fluid Therapy in the Acute Setting 39**

Chapter 4 **Resuscitation Procedures in Emergency Setting 57**

Aml Yousif Elemamali and Aftab Mohammad Azad

Chapter 6 **Point-of-Care Ultrasound in the Emergency Department 121** Irma Faruqi, Maryam Siddiqi and Rasha Buhumaid

Chapter 7 **The Evolving Role of Ultrasound in Emergency Medicine 145**
