A Clinician’s Survival Guide to Acute Medical Emergencies
- 4th Edition - September 10, 2024
- Latest edition
- Authors: Richard Harrison, Lynda Daly
- Language: English
**Selected for 2025 Doody’s Core Titles® with "Essential Purchase" designation in Emergency Care**A Clinician’s Survival Guide to Acute Medical Emergencies, Fourth Edition is a pri… Read more
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Description
Description
**Selected for 2025 Doody’s Core Titles® with "Essential Purchase" designation in Emergency Care**
A Clinician’s Survival Guide to Acute Medical Emergencies, Fourth Edition is a primer in acute emergency care aimed at nursing staff, senior medical students, Foundation Year doctors and physician assistants. This textbook outlines the observations, clinical management and interventions in the critical first 24 hours of admission, based on an understanding of the underlying disease mechanisms.
The new edition has been updated to cover the management of COVID, the most recent advances in the care of common medical emergencies and the latest iteration of the NEWS Guidance.
With a unique focus on the overlap between medical and nursing management in the Acute Medical Unit, this book is an ideal source for the entire acute medical team.
A Clinician’s Survival Guide to Acute Medical Emergencies, Fourth Edition is a primer in acute emergency care aimed at nursing staff, senior medical students, Foundation Year doctors and physician assistants. This textbook outlines the observations, clinical management and interventions in the critical first 24 hours of admission, based on an understanding of the underlying disease mechanisms.
The new edition has been updated to cover the management of COVID, the most recent advances in the care of common medical emergencies and the latest iteration of the NEWS Guidance.
With a unique focus on the overlap between medical and nursing management in the Acute Medical Unit, this book is an ideal source for the entire acute medical team.
Key features
Key features
- Clear, simple and accessible advice on caring for patients in the first 24 hours of admission
- Current, evidence-based guidance as a cornerstone to a team-based approach
- Covers all the common emergency conditions and their underlying disease mechanisms
- Explains the rationale of the assessment, observations and management
- Focuses specifically on effective communication with the patients and their relatives
Readership
Readership
Qualified nurses; newly registered nurses; emergency nurse practitioners; nurse assistants; nurse educators; nurse consultants/specialists; EMTs
Table of contents
Table of contents
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 Use Disorders
9. The 'Social Admission'
10. Multisystem Failure
11. Emerging Problems: Outbreaks and Deliberate Releases—SARS and COVID-19, Toxins and Biologic Agents
Index
2. Cardiology
3. Respiratory Medicine
4. Acute Neurological Problems
5. Gastroenterology
6. Diabetic Complications
7. Thromboembolic Disease
8. Deliberate Self-Harm, Alcohol and Substance Use Disorders
9. The 'Social Admission'
10. Multisystem Failure
11. Emerging Problems: Outbreaks and Deliberate Releases—SARS and COVID-19, Toxins and Biologic Agents
Index
Product details
Product details
- Edition: 4
- Latest edition
- Published: November 27, 2024
- Language: English
About the authors
About the authors
RH
Richard Harrison
Richard Harrison is Consultant Physician at Salisbury District Hospital, United Kingdom.
Affiliations and expertise
Consultant Physician, Salisbury District Hospital, UKLD
Lynda Daly
Affiliations and expertise
Stockbridge, UK