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Emergency and trauma care for nurses and paramedics

2e, Australian and New Zealand edition.
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Emergency and Trauma Care for Nurses and Paramedics (Australian/NZ) 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 practising emergency and trauma care and patient presentations.

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Elsevier Australia
Language
English
Pages
1454

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Cover of: Emergency and Trauma Care for Nurses and Paramedics
Emergency and Trauma Care for Nurses and Paramedics
2019, Elsevier
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Emergency and trauma care for nurses and paramedics
2016, Elsevier Australia
in English - 2e, Australian and New Zealand edition.

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Table of Contents

I. Overview of emergency care
Emergency nursing in Australia and New Zealand
Pre-hospital care overview in Australia and New Zealand: past, present and future
Clinical ethics for emergency healthcare
Emergency care and the law
Cultural considerations in emergency care
Management and leadership
II. Systems and clinical fundamentals
Professional development
Research for emergency care
Patient education and communication
III. Clinical concepts and systems
Scene assessment, management and rescue
Pre-hospital clinical reasoning, triage and communication
Major incident preparedness management
Triage and Emergency nurses
Patient assessment and essentials of care
Resuscitation
Stabilisation and transfer
Clinical skills
Minor injury and management
Pain management
Physiology and pathophysiology for emergency care
IV. Emergencies
Respiratory emergencies
Cardiovascular emergencies
Neurological emergencies
Gastrointestinal emergencies
Renal and genitourinary emergencies
Endocrine emergencies
Healthcare-associated Infections and communicable diseases
Environmental emergencies and Pandemics
Haematological emergencies
Toxicological emergencies
Envenomation
Dental, ear, nose and throat emergencies
Ocular emergencies and trauma
Gynaecological emergencies
Obstetric emergencies
Paediatric emergencies
Mental health emergencies
People with disabilities
The older person
Violence, abuse and assault
Alcohol, tobacco and other drug use
V. Major trauma
Overview of traumatic injury
Mechanisms of injury
Major trauma initial assessment and management
Traumatic brain injury
Faciomaxillary trauma
Thoracic and neck trauma
Abdominal and genitourinary trauma
Spinal trauma
Major orthopaedic and neurovascular trauma
Blast injury
Burns trauma
VI. End of life
Death and dying
Organ and tissue donation.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Published in
Chatswood, NSW

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
616.025
Library of Congress
RC86.7 .C87 2016

The Physical Object

Pagination
xvii, 1454 pages
Number of pages
1454

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL37013800M
Internet Archive
emergencytraumac0000unse
ISBN 10
072954205X
ISBN 13
9780729542050
OCLC/WorldCat
933440694

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