Regional perspectives on the realities, risks and future of emergency care Emergency care in the Middle East is shaped by striking contrasts: rapidly advancing health systems alongside resource limitations, mass gatherings, political instability, extreme climates, remote environments and culturally distinctive clinical decisions.
Emergency Medicine: Challenges in the Middle East brings together clinicians and specialists with regional experience to examine how emergency care is organised, delivered and developed across this diverse setting. Across seven sections, the book explores healthcare systems; Hajj, disaster and prehospital medicine; environmental emergencies; toxicology; selected regional illnesses; education and residency training; and the legal, professional and technological issues shaping the specialty.
Combining clinical perspectives, system-level analysis, field experience and practical recommendations, this volume will be a valuable reference for emergency physicians and trainees, paramedics, nurses, educators, hospital leaders, policymakers and other professionals involved in acute and emergency care across the Middle East and North Africa. Inside this volume Healthcare systems and policy; Hajj, disaster and prehospital medicine; environmental emergencies; toxicology; region-specific medical conditions; education and residency training; and medico-legal issues, burnout and artificial intelligence.