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From the publishers of the market-leading at a Glance series comes a wide-ranging and succinct overview of the key concepts of emergency care. Emergency Nursing at a Glance uses the unique and highly visual at a Glance format to convey vital information quickly and efficiently, ensuring that nursing students have access to all the important topics they need for an emergency care placement. This highly visual, easy-to-read guide is the ideal companion for anyone entering fields involving urgent or unscheduled care.
* Includes all aspects of emergency care, including trauma, minor injury, triage processes, patient assessment, common emergency presentations, as well as legal, ethical and professional issues.
* Covers care of adults, children, and those with learning disabilities and mental health conditions
* Presented in the bestselling at a Glance format, with superb illustrations and a concise approach
Emergency Nursing at a Glance is an invaluable resource for nursing students, newly qualified nurses and other healthcare professionals working in emergency departments, urgent care centres, minor injury units and walk-in centres.
Sommario
1. The context of emergency nursing
Part 1: Initial patient assessment
2. Pre-hospital care
3. Triage
4. ABCDE approach
5. Track and trigger systems
6. Pain
Part 2: Airway and breathing
7. Airway assessment and management
8. Assessment of breathing
9. Oxygen therapy
10. Respiratory conditions
Part 3: Circulation
11. Assessment of circulation
12. Circulation interventions
13. Shock
14. 12-lead ECG
15. Cardiac arrhythmias
16. Acute coronary syndromes
17. Heart failure
18. Advanced life support
Part 4: Disability
19. Assessment of neurological function
20. The unconscious patient
21. Stroke
22. Seizures
23. Headache
Part 5: Emergency presentations and conditions
24. Abdominal pain
25. Gastrointestinal bleed
26. Genitourinary conditions
27. Acute kidney injury
28. Diabetic emergencies
29. Obstetrics and gynaecology
Part 6: Poisoning and overdose
30. Poisoning: Assessment and management
31. Poisoning: Prescription and non-prescription drugs
32. Poisoning: Other substances
33. Alcohol misuse
Part 7: Infectious diseases
34. Infectious diseases
35. Notifiable diseases
36. Sexually transmitted infections
Part 8: Vulnerable patient groups
37. Domestic abuse
38. Sexual assault
39. The mental health patient in the ED
40. Risk assessment, self-harm and suicide
41. Common mental health problems
42. The patient with dementia
43. The patient with an intellectual disability
Part 9: Children in the emergency department
44. Children in the ED
45. Safeguarding children
46. Recognising the sick child
47. Common illnesses in children
48. Paediatric advanced life support
Part 10: Minor injuries and conditions
49. Minor injuries in children
50. Lower limb injuries
51. Upper limb injuries
52. Wounds
53. Eye conditions
54. Ear, nose and throat conditions
Part 11: Trauma
55. Trauma in context
56. Primary survey
57. Head and spinal trauma
58. Chest trauma
59. Limb trauma
60. Abdominal and pelvic trauma
61. Massive haemorrhage
62. Burns
63. Special circumstances in trauma
64. Trauma in children
65. Major incident
Part 12: Patient transfer and end-of-life care
66. Patient transfer
67. End-of-life care
Info autore
Natalie Holbery, Lecturer/Practitioner Emergency Care, St George's University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Kingston University and St George's, University of London
Paul Newcombe, Associate Professor, Kingston University and St George's, University of London
Riassunto
From the publishers of the market-leading at a Glance series comes a wide-ranging and succinct overview of the key concepts of emergency care.
