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Emergency Care of the Abused
Edited by Fiona E. Gallahue and Laura D. Melville
299 pp, $110.50
New York, NY, Cambridge University Press, 2008
ISBN-13: 978-0-5218-6707-8
JAMA. 2009;301(11):1177-1178.
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Emergency Care of the Abused provides health care practitioners with practical medical and legal information about the acute evaluation and management of patients who have been abused. Designed as a reference guide for primary care and emergency practitioners, the book presents a brief overview of physical and sexual child abuse, intimate partner violence, sexual assault, and a variety of vulnerable populations at increased risk of abuse: elderly individuals, those with mental illness or cognitive impairment, immigrants, and ethnic minorities.
Individual chapters, presented in outline format, cover each topic, usually followed by quick reference pages. The reference pages include a number of helpful resources for practitioners, such as up-to-date recommendations by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention regarding sexually transmitted disease prophylaxis (pp 55-57) and screening questions for survivors of human trafficking, translated into Spanish, Russian, and Mandarin Chinese. The book includes photographs that illustrate the challenges of distinguishing between . . . [Full Text of this Article]
Melissa L. McCarthy, ScD, Reviewer
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Baltimore, Maryland
mmccarth@jhmi.edu
Karin V. Rhodes, MD, MS, Reviewer
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
Philadelphia
karin.rhodes@uphs.upenn.edu
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