PART ONE: PREVENTION

1. Introduction

2.  Prevention

3.  Preparation

4.  Legal Considerations

PART TWO: UNCONSCIOUSNESS

5. Unconsciousness: General Considerations

6. Vasodepressor Syncope

7. Postural Hypotension

8.  Acute Adrenal Insufficiency

9. Unconsciousness: Differential Diagnosis

PART THREE: RESPIRATORY DISTRESS

10.  Respiratory Distress: General Considerations

11.  Foreign Body Airway Obstruction

12.  Hyperventilation

13.  Asthma 

14.  Heart Failure and Acute Pulmonary Edema

15.  Respiratory Distress: Differential Diagnosis

PART FOUR: ALTERED CONSCIOUSNESS

16.  Altered Consciousness: General Considerations

17.  Diabetes Mellitus: Hyperglycemia and Hypoglycemia

18.  Thyroid Gland Dysfunction

19.  Cerebrovascular Accident

20.  Altered Consciousness: Differential Diagnosis

PART FIVE: SEIZURES

21. Seizures

PART SIX: DRUG-RELATED EMERGENCIES

22. Drug-Related Emergencies: General Considerations

23. Drug Overdose Reactions

24. Allergy

25. Drug-Related Emergencies: Differential Diagnosis

PART SEVEN: CHEST PAIN

26. Chest Pain: General Considerations

27. Angina Pectoris

28. Acute Myocardial Infarction 

29. Chest Pain: Differential Diagnosis

PART EIGHT: CARDIAC ARREST

30. Cardiac Arrest 

31.  Pediatric Considerations