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A Nurse's Survival Guide to Acute Medical Emergencies

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

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

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

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

Sobre los autores

RH

Richard N. Harrison

Afiliaciones y experiencia
Consultant Physician, The University Hospital of North Tees,Stockton on Tees, UK

LD

Lynda Daly

Afiliaciones y experiencia
Stockbridge, UK