By Allan B. Wolfson MD FACEP FACP

Selected as a Doody's Core Title for 2025! Clinically focused and evidence-based,Harwood-Nuss’ Clinical Practice of Emergency Medicine, Seventh Edition, is a comprehensive, easy-to-use reference for practitioners and residents in today’s Emergency Department (ED). Templated chapters rapidly guide you to up to date information on clinical presentation, differential diagnosis, evaluation, management, and disposition, including highlighted critical interventions and common pitfalls. This concise text covers the full range of conditions you’re likely to see in the ED, with unmatched readability for quick study and reference.

Emphasizes management and disposition, helping you make effective management decisions for patients with or without a confirmed diagnosis.

Contains a unique high-risk chief complaint section, covering frequently seen, critical presentations in the ED, including chest pain, abdominal pain, shortness of breath, and altered mental status.

Provides carefully selected tables, diagrams, and illustrations to enhance and augment concise, focused chapters.

Features key testing sections throughout as well as pertinent clinical guideline boxes providing practical advice and guidance to increase your knowledge and improve your clinical care.

Includes access to additional online-only content (including chapters, figures, and tables) and access to over 1,500 self-assessment questions and answers.