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
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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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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
- Edition: 3
- Latest edition
- Published: June 19, 2019
- Language: English
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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, AustraliaCR
Clair Ramsden
Affiliations and expertise
Executive Director Clinical Services, Opal HealthCare, AustraliaRS
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, AustraliaMF
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, AustraliaJC
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