A Nurse's Survival Guide to Acute Medical Emergencies Updated Edition
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A Nurse's Survival Guide to Acute Medical Emergencies Updated Edition

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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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Publisher
Elsevier
Year
2018
ISBN
9780702076671
Edition
3
Topic
Medizin

Table of contents

  1. Front Cover
  2. A Nurseā€™s Survival Guide to Acute Medical Emergencies
  3. Series Page
  4. Dedication
  5. A Nurseā€™s Survival Guide to Acute Medical Emergencies
  6. Copyright
  7. Contents
  8. Preface
  9. Abbreviations
  10. 1 - Introduction: Immediate Assessment of the Critically Ill
  11. 2 - Cardiology
  12. 3 - Respiratory Medicine
  13. 4 - Acute Neurological Problems
  14. 5 - Gastroenterology
  15. 6 - Diabetic Complications
  16. 7 - Thromboembolic Disease
  17. 8 - Deliberate Self-harm, Alcohol, and Substance Abuse
  18. 9 - The ā€˜Social Admissionā€™
  19. 10 - Multisystem Failure
  20. 11 - Emerging Problems:Outbreaks and Deliberate Releasesā€”SARS, Toxins and Biologic Agents
  21. Index