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This book describes the fight to create a new medical specialty of accident and emergency medicine against much opposition from established specialties. The specialty was first recognized in 1972. The book also charts the major developments that occurred in the first 30 years of emergency medicine.

Accident and emergency departments are the doorway to the hospital for acutely ill and injured patients. Whereas casualty departments have existed for over 150 years, they were often poorly staffed and managed. This book describes the fight to create a new medical specialty of accident and emergency medicine against much opposition from established specialties. The specialty was first recognised in 1972. The book also charts the major developments that occurred in the first 30 years of the specialty.

Good records are essential in Accident & Emergency medicine for adequa te clinical care as well as for medico-legal reasons. This book explai ns the reasons for keeping good records and describes how A&E records should be kept both in general terms and emphasizes the essential info rmation to be recorded with different mechanisms of injury and in diff erent anatomical sites. Some proformas for collecting information on s pecific injuries are given and there are many examples of appropriate notes.