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.