'This is the latest offering in the series of highly successful Oxford handbooks in emergency medicine. It continues in the same vein as its predecessors providing concise, practical information in an easily readable format...The book will be most useful to the junior doctor as a pocket reference in the first one to two months of a busy accident and emergency post. It will occupy and excellent niche for those wanting a little more detail than the standard accident and emergency texts:it is highly recommended.'

• Part 1: General Considerations ; 1. Introduction ; 2. Abbreviations ; 3. Anatomy ; 4. Assessment ; 5. Surgery, splints, dressings ; 6. Local anaesthetic techniques ; Part 2: Soft Tissue Injuries ; 7. Nailbed injuries ; 8. Gamekeeper's thumb ; 9. Glass injury ; 10. Simple laceration ; 11. Major laceration and crush injuries ; 12. Ring avulsion injury ; 13. High pressure injections ; 14. Burns - thermal ; 15. Burns - chemical ; 16. Burns - electrical ; 17. Frostbite ; 18. Skin loss ; 19. Amputations (replants) ; 21. Foreign bodies ; Part 3: Tendon and Nerve Injuries ; 22. Flexor tendons ; 23. Extensor tendon (1 Mallet) ; 24. Extensor tendon (2 Boutonniere) ; 25. Extensor tendon (3 MP joint) ; 26. Extensor tendon (4 hand and wrist) ; 27. Nerve injury ; Part 4: Injuries to Bones and Joints ; 28. Fall on outstretched hand ; 29. Scaphoid fracture ; 30. Lunate dislocation and scapholunate dissociation ; 31. Bennett's fracture ; 32. Fracture MC shaft/base ; 33. Fracture neck 5th MC ; 34. Phalangeal fractures ; 35. IP joint dislocation ; 36. PIPJ swelling (volar plate injury) ; 37. Ephiphyseal injuries - (children) ; Part 5: Infections ; 38. Paronychia ; 39. Pulp space infection (felon) ; 40. Cellulitis ; 41. Bite wounds ; 42. Septic arthritis ; 44. Web space abcess ; 45. Palmar space infection ; Part 6: Patient Transfer ; Index