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Emergency and Trauma Care for Nurses and Paramedics

  • 3rd Edition - June 19, 2019
  • Latest edition
  • Authors: Kate Curtis, Clair Ramsden, Ramon Z. Shaban, Margaret Fry, Julie Considine
  • Language: English

Endorsed by the College of Emergency Nursing Australasia CENA is the peak professional association representing emergency nurses and has endorsed this text in recognition of the… Read more

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Endorsed by the College of Emergency Nursing Australasia

CENA is the peak professional association representing emergency nurses and has endorsed this text in recognition of the relevance it has to emergency nursing across Australasia.

Led by an expanded editorial team of internationally recognised clinicians, researchers and leaders in emergency care, the 3rd edition of Emergency and Trauma Care for Nurses and Paramedics continues to be the foremost resource for students preparing to enter the emergency environment and for clinicians seeking a greater understanding of multidisciplinary emergency care.

The text provides nursing and paramedicine students and clinicians with the opportunity to understand the best available evidence behind the treatment that is provided throughout the emergency care trajectory. This unique approach ultimately seeks to strengthen multidisciplinary care and equip readers with the knowledge and skills to provide safe, quality, emergency care.

The 3rd edition builds on the strengths of previous editions and follows a patient journey and body systems approach, spanning the pre-hospital and hospital environments.

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Instructor resources:

  • PowerPoint slides
  • Test bank
  • Paramedic test bank
  • Case study questions and answers
  • Image collection
  • Additional case studies with answers and rationales
  • Additional paramedic case studies with answers and rationales

    • Student and Instructor resources:

    • Additional case studies
    • Additional paramedic case studies
    • Videos

      • Table of contents

      SECTION 1 Foundations of emergency care

      1 Emergency nursing in Australia and New Zealand

      2 Paramedicine in Australia and New Zealand

      3 Clinical ethics for emergency healthcare

      4 Emergency care and the law

      5 Cultural considerations in emergency care

      6 Patient Safety and quality in emergency care

      7 Research for emergency care

      8 Patient and Carer engagement and communication

      SECTION 2 Clinical concepts and systems

      9 Scene assessment, management and rescue

      10 Applied Physiology and pathophysiology for emergency care

      11 Clinical reasoning, problem solving and triage

      12 Major incident preparedness management

      13 Patient assessment and essential care

      14 Resuscitation

      15 Stabilisation and transfer

      16 Clinical skills

      17 Minor injury and management

      18 Pain management

      19 Organ and tissue donation

      20 End of life

      SECTION 3 Emergencies

      21 Respiratory emergencies

      22 Cardiovascular emergencies

      23 Neurological emergencies

      24 Gastrointestinal emergencies

      25 Renal and genitourinary emergencies

      26 Endocrine emergencies

      27 Healthcare-associated infections and infectious diseases

      28 Environmental emergencies

      29 Oncology and haematology emergencies

      30 Toxicological emergencies

      31 Dental, ear, nose and throat emergencies

      32 Ocular emergencies and trauma

      33 Gynaecological emergencies

      34 Obstetric emergencies

      35 Paediatric emergencies

      36 Mental health emergencies

      37 People with disabilities

      38 The older person

      39 Violence, abuse and assault

      40 Alcohol and other drugs

      SECTION 4 Major trauma

      41 Epidemiology of Injury

      42 Major trauma initial assessment and management

      43 Traumatic brain injury

      44 Maxillofacial trauma

      45 Thoracic and neck trauma

      46 Abdominal trauma

      47 Spinal trauma

      48 Major orthopaedic and neurovascular trauma

      49 Burns trauma

      Product details

      • Edition: 3
      • Latest edition
      • Published: August 7, 2019
      • Language: English

      About the authors

      KC

      Kate Curtis

      Affiliations and expertise
      Professor Emergency and Trauma Care, University of Sydney, NSW, Australia; Director Emergency and Critical Care Research, Illawarra Shoalhaven Local Health District, Warrawong, NSW, Australia; Registered Nurse, Wollongong Hospital Emergency Department, Wollongong, NSW, Australia; Honorary Professorial Fellow, The George Institute for Global Health, Sydney, NSW, Australia

      CR

      Clair Ramsden

      Affiliations and expertise
      Executive Director Clinical Services, Opal HealthCare, Australia

      RS

      Ramon Z. Shaban

      Professor Ramon Z. Shaban BSc(Med), BN, GradCertInfCon, PGDipPH&TM, MEd, MCommHealthPrac(Hons1), PhD, RN, CICP-E, FCENA, FACN, FACIPC Clinical Chair of Communicable Diseases Control and Infection Prevention, Sydney Infectious Diseases Institute and Susan Wakil School of Nursing and Midwifery, Faculty of Medicine and Health, University of Sydney, Camperdown, New South Wales, Australia; Clinical Chair of Communicable Diseases Control and Infection Prevention, Public Health Unit, Centre for Population Health, Western Sydney Local Health District, North Parramatta, New South Wales, Australia; District Director and Chief Infection Control Practitioner, Western Sydney Local Health District, Westmead, New South Wales, Australia; Associate Director, New South Wales Biocontainment Centre, New South Wales Specialist Service for High Consequence Infectious Diseases Westmead, New South Wales, Australia; Senior Editor, Infection, Disease and Health, Australasian College for Infection Prevention and Control, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
      Affiliations and expertise
      Clinical Chair of Communicable Diseases Control and Infection Prevention, Sydney Infectious Diseases Institute and Susan Wakil School of Nursing and Midwifery, Faculty of Medicine and Health, University of Sydney, Camperdown, New South Wales, Australia

      MF

      Margaret Fry

      Affiliations and expertise
      Professor Emergency and Critical Care, University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia; Northern Sydney Local Health District Nursing and Midwifery Directorate, Sydney, NSW, Australia; Adjunct Professor, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia; Senior Editor, Australasian Emergency Care, College of Emergency Nursing Australia, Sydney, NSW, Australia

      JC

      Julie Considine

      Affiliations and expertise
      Professor of Nursing, Deakin University – Eastern Health, Burwood, Victoria, Australia ; Senior Editor, Australasian Emergency Care, College of Emergency Nursing Australasia, NSW, Australia