Emergency Medicine Revision Notes

These are my notes as PDF files initially made whilst revising for the FACEM Part II exam in 2009 and extensively reviewed / updated in 2012. 

The more recent documents include a version number and date, so the degree of currency may be better judged. 

The sources are many, but primarily:

• The Emergency Medicine Manual 4th & 5th Editions by Robert Dunn
• Toxicology Handbook 2nd Edition by Murray, Daly, Little & Cadogan
• Web Mentor Library 
• UpToDate
• eMedicine/Medscape
• Wheeless Online Textbook of Orthopaedics
• Rosen's Emergency Medicine: Concepts and Clinical Practice, 7th Edition
• Tintinalli's Emergency Medicine. A Comprehensive Study Guide, 7th Edition
• Mental Health for Emergency Departments – A Reference Guide. NSW Department of Health, Sydney, 2009.
• New South Wales Health publications & guidelines
• Cochrane Library Systematic Reviews
• Pearls of wisdom from websites such as Life In The Fast Lane and Academic Life in Emergency Medicine
• Many journals including: BMJ, EMJ, NEJM, and The Lancet

Subject areas:

You can now download a zipped set of subject files (size~27MB) by clicking here:

Use these PDF files at your own peril. There may be inadvertent errors in them and some information may become obsolete with time.

Because they were initially created for personal use only, the notes do contain some medical shorthand and abbreviations, but they should still be readily comprehensible.

Happy to be corrected or educated by sending an email to me