Nurse's Survival Guide to Acute Medical Emergencies Updated Edition

This book is a primer of acute medical care, providing a pocket guide to caring for patients with acute medical conditions. It covers assessment, management, and common emergency medical conditions, with jargon-free language and up-to-date evidence-based approaches.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 464 pages
Publication date: 10 December 2018
Publisher: Elsevier Health Sciences

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 – 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, and 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, and 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, and has revised its case histories in line with current practice.

Weight: 764g
Dimension: 231 x 150 x 18 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780702076664
Edition number: 3 Revised edition