A quick reference to assist the health care practitioner in the acute care of abused patients.

Fiona E. Gallahue is Associate Residency Director and Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at Weill Cornell Medical College and an emergency medicine physician at New York Methodist Hospital, Brooklyn, New York.

1. The pediatric patient Jennifer Canter, Jamie Hoffman Rosenfeld, Neelofar K. Butt and Ann Botash; 2. Intimate partner violence Peggy E. Goodman; 3. Sexual assault Laura D. Melville; 4. The geriatric patient Jonathan Glauser; 5. Mentally ill or cognitively impaired patients Stephanie Cooper; 6. Immigrants and cultural taboos Indrani Sheridan; 7. Torture victims Moira Davenport; 8. Trafficking victims Fiona E. Gallahue; 9. Forensic photography Mary Ryan.