There is no doubt that the practice of emergency medicine is characterized by intensity, targeted action, the ability to make immediate decisions, and effective management of difficult situations, which concern not only patients and their environment but also the personnel involved in the effort to save the patients. This is exactly the medical and nursing staff working in the Emergency Department of a hospital who are called upon to make these critical decisions for the life of each patient under conditions of extreme pressure.

In order to perform their duties in such a demanding clinical setting, both doctors and nurses need to be able to quickly recognize life-threatening conditions in order to effectively address them, as time is a powerful enemy in their endeavor. To do so, they need to quickly recall a large amount of knowledge and information, distinguish between different conditions and pathological entities, and make the appropriate choices that ensure the patient's life.

A valuable aid for the proper practice of clinical medicine in this environment is the handbook by Sefrin and Schua, which rightly received favorable comments from the global medical community and has been translated into numerous languages, as it is a practical and comprehensible manual that thousands of doctors refer to daily for the management of emergency cases worldwide. By delivering this handbook to Greek doctors, nurses, and rescuers, we express our belief that they will find a valuable ally in their daily struggle to save and restore patients.