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A Nurse's Survival Guide to Acute Medical Emergencies Updated Edition
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- 464 pages
- English
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- Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF
A Nurse's Survival Guide to Acute Medical Emergencies Updated Edition
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About This Book
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 ā 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
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Table of contents
- Front Cover
- A Nurseās Survival Guide to Acute Medical Emergencies
- Series Page
- Dedication
- A Nurseās Survival Guide to Acute Medical Emergencies
- Copyright
- Contents
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- 1 - Introduction: Immediate Assessment of the Critically Ill
- 2 - Cardiology
- 3 - Respiratory Medicine
- 4 - Acute Neurological Problems
- 5 - Gastroenterology
- 6 - Diabetic Complications
- 7 - Thromboembolic Disease
- 8 - Deliberate Self-harm, Alcohol, and Substance Abuse
- 9 - The āSocial Admissionā
- 10 - Multisystem Failure
- 11 - Emerging Problems:Outbreaks and Deliberate ReleasesāSARS, Toxins and Biologic Agents
- Index