Emergency and Trauma Care for Nurses and Paramedics

Emergency and Trauma Care for Nurses and Paramedics 2e, edited by Kate Curtis and Clair Ramsden, introduces the student to emergency nursing and paramedicine, the principles of patient care, as well providing a thorough knowledge-base for practicing emergency and trauma care and patient presentations. Emergency and Trauma Care for Nurses and Paramedics 2e provides fully revised, in-depth contributions from practitioners based within specialist paramedic, emergency nursing and emergency medical and surgical professions. The new edition is an up-to-date resource for the student reflecting current pre-hospital and emergency department practice as well as considering the requirements of each specialist role. Important topics such as interdisciplinary practice, evidence-based decision making, continuity of care and key federal and government initiatives are included and each chapter includes a new section on emerging trends and evidence as well as critical thinking questions. INDICE: Emergency nursing and the practice environmentPre-hospital care overview in Australia and New Zealand Clinical ethics for emergency healthcareEmergency care and the law Cultural considerations in emergency careManagement and leadershipProfessional developmentResearch for emergency care Patient educationScene assessment, management and rescuePre-hospital clinical reasoning, triage and communicationMajor incident preparedness managementEmergency nursing triagePatient assessment and essentials of careResuscitationStabilisation and transferClinical skillsMinor injury and managementPain managementPhysiology for emergency careRespiratory emergenciesCardiovascular emergenciesNeurological emergenciesGastrointestinal emergenciesRenal and genitourinary emergenciesEndocrine emergenciesInfectious and communicable diseasesPandemics and Environmental emergenciesHaematological emergencies Toxicological emergencies EnvenomationDental, ear, nose and throat emergenciesOcular emergencies and traumaGynaecological emergenciesObstetric emergenciesPaediatric emergenciesMental health emergenciesPeople with disabilitiesThe older personViolence, abuse and assaultAlcohol, tobacco and other drug useAn overview of traumaMechanisms of injuryMajor trauma initial assessment and managementTraumatic brain injuryFaciomaxillary traumaThoracic and neck traumaAbdominal and genitourinary traumaSpinal traumaMajor orthopaedic and neurovascular traumaBlast injuryBurns traumaDeath and dyingOrgan and tissue donation

• ISBN: 978-0-7295-4205-0
• Editorial: Mosby
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 1400
• Fecha Publicación: 27/11/2015
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés