A Nurse's Survival Guide to Acute Medical Emergencies
- 3 Edición - 31 de mayo de 2011
- Autores: Richard N. Harrison, Lynda Daly
- Idioma: Inglés
Are you working in an acute or emergency unit? This is an indispensable pocket guide to caring for patients with acute medical condition… Leer más
Descripción
Descripción
Are you working in an acute or emergency unit?
This is an indispensable pocket guide to caring for patients with acute medical conditions.
Puntos claves
Puntos claves
This book will help you to:
- Care for patients within the critical first 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 practical advice in a clear style
- Explains ‘what to tell the patient and relatives’ in jargon-free language
Índice
Índice
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 ‘social admission’
10. Multisystem failure
11. Emerging problems: outbreaks and deliberate releases – SARS, toxins and biological agents
Detalles del producto
Detalles del producto
- Edición: 3
- Publicado: 31 de mayo de 2011
- Idioma: Inglés
Sobre los autores
Sobre los autores
RH
Richard N. Harrison
Afiliaciones y experiencia
Consultant Physician, The University Hospital of North Tees,Stockton on Tees, UKLD
Lynda Daly
Afiliaciones y experiencia
Stockbridge, UK