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Are you a nurse, a physician's associate or a medical student in an acute or emergency unit?
This is your indispensable primer of acute medical care - a pocket guide to caring for patients with acute medical conditions.
This book will help you to
- care for patients in the first critical 24 hours of admission
- manage patients using the most up-to-date evidence based approach
- understand the most common emergency medical conditions and their underlying disease mechanisms
- handle the patient's assessment , understand the observations and manage their disease
- easily obtain clear practical advice
- know what to tell the patient and relatives using jargon-free language
- access information on SARS, avian influenza and bio-terrorism
This updated edition
- contains improved sections on stroke care, diabetes and sepsis,
- introduces the NEWS 2 observation chart
- has revised its case histories in line with current practice
This updated edition:
contains improved sections on stroke care, diabetes and sepsis,
introduces the NEWS 2 observation chart
has revised its case histories in line with current practice
Table des matières
Abbreviations
- Introduction: Immediate assessment of the critically ill
ABCDE: Immediate assessment and intervention
Early warning: Track and Trigger
National Early Warning Score
Communication - NEWS and SBAR
- Cardiology
Acute severe breathlessness
Cardiac failure
Heart muscle damage
Valvular disease
Rhythm disturbance
Types of heart failure
Left heart failure
Right heart failure
Congestive cardiac failure
Right heart failure and COPD
Diastolic heart failure
Clinical features and management of cardiac failure
Acute left ventricular failure
Acute on chronic congestive cardiac failure
Ischaemic heart disease
Chest pain
Acute coronary syndromes, NSTEMIs and Unstable Angina
Sudden cardiac death
Atrial fibrillation and arterial emboli
Causes of atrial fibrillation
Importance of atrial fibrillation
Complications of atrial fibrillation
Diagnosis of atrial fibrillation
Management of atrial fibrillation
Infective endocarditis
Drugs in the management of acute heart disease
- Respiratory medicine
The breathless patient: the general approach
Respiratory failure
Type I and Type II respiratory failure
Principles of treatment
Acute severe asthma
Mechanisms
Assessment of acute severe asthma
Management of acute severe asthma
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
Mechanisms
Management of acute exacerbations of COPD
Non-invasive ventilation
Pneumonia
Assessment
The severity score in pneumonia: CURB-65
Management of pneumonia
Antibiotics
Spontaneous pneumothorax
Nursing the patient with a chest drain
- Acute neurological problems
Ensuring the safety of the patient
Prioritising the initial management: GCS and ABCDE
Managing 'medical' and 'neurological' coma
Responding to neurological deterioration
Stroke and stroke-like emergencies
Cerebral infarction
Transient ischaemic attacks
Intracerebral haemorrhage
Subarachnoid haemorrhage
Subdural haemorrhage
Extradural haemorrhage
Nursing the patient with a stroke: the first 24 h
Meningococcal meningitis
Acute severe headache
Subarachnoid haemorrhage
Lumbar puncture
Sudden loss of consciousness: faints and fits
The basic mechanisms: syncope
The basic mechanisms: epileptic seizures
Pseudoseizures (non-epileptic seizures)
Acute paralysis of the lower limbs
Spinal cord compression
Guillain-Barré syndrome
- Gastroenterology
Nausea and vomiting underlying mechanisms
Nausea and vomiting in acute medical conditions
Acute upper gastrointestinal haemorrhage
Management of upper gastrointestinal haemorrhage
Portal hypertension and the management of oesophageal varices
Acute liver failure and hepatic encephalopathy
Acute jaundice
Acute abdominal pain
Acute diarrhoea: sources and courses
Infective diarrhoea
Clostridium difficile diarrhoea
Infective diarrhoea versus acute ulcerative colitis
Medical conditions presenting with gastrointestinal symptoms
- Diabetic complications
Diabetes on the Acute Medical Unit: the general approach
Normal blood sugar control and the nature of diabetes
An overview of Type I and Type II diabetes
Acute medical conditions associated with diabetes
Diabetic renal disease
Diabetic neuropathy
Cardiovascular disease
Cerebrovascular diseas
Résumé
Rev. ed. of: Acute medical emergencies / Richard Harrison, Lynda Daly. 2nd ed. 2006.
