Evidence-Based Trauma Pearls, An Issue of Critical Care Nursing Clinics of North America
- 1st Edition, Volume 35-2 - May 4, 2023
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Editors: Jeanette Vaughan, Whitney Villegas
- Language: English
- Hardback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 9 3 9 3 3 - 1
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 9 3 9 3 4 - 8
In this issue of Critical Care Nursing Clinics, guest editor Dr. Jeanette Vaughan brings her considerable expertise to the topic of Evidenced-Based Trauma Pearls. Top experts in… Read more
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Request a sales quoteIn this issue of Critical Care Nursing Clinics, guest editor Dr. Jeanette Vaughan brings her considerable expertise to the topic of Evidenced-Based Trauma Pearls. Top experts in the field provide evidence-based pearls on key topics such as airway management, spinal cord injuries, chest trauma, geriatric frailty trauma, TBI, falls, trauma and the obstetric patient; and more.
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Contains 13 relevant, practice-oriented topics including the multidisciplinary team in critical care; ethical dilemmas in critical care; LGBT+ and trauma; social determinants of health in trauma patients; victim mental health trauma; and more.
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Provides in-depth clinical reviews on evidenced-based trauma pearls, offering actionable insights for clinical practice.
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Presents the latest information on this timely, focused topic under the leadership of experienced editors in the field. Authors synthesize and distill the latest research and practice guidelines to create clinically significant, topic-based reviews.
Nursing, critical care
- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Contributors
- Forthcoming Issues
- Preface
- Evidence-Based Pearls: How the Healthy Work Environment Effects Multidisciplinary Trauma Teams
- Key points
- Skills of the trauma team
- Trauma roles
- The importance of healthy work environments
- Safety of trauma-informed care
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Airway Management in Trauma Patients
- Key points
- Introduction
- Airway assessment
- Airway triage
- Airway interventions and artificial airways
- Surgical airways
- Trauma nursing role in airway management
- Traumatic airway injuries
- Case study
- Clinics care points
- Disclosure statement
- Acute Management of Cervical Spinal Cord Injuries
- Key points
- Introduction
- Pathophysiology
- Spinal and neurogenic shock
- Diagnosis
- Case presentation part 1
- American Spinal Injury Association scale
- Case presentation part 2
- Classification of injury
- Acute management
- Case presentation part 3
- Case presentation part 4
- Case presentation part 5
- Clinical pearls
- Disclosures
- Evidence-Based Pearls: Chest Trauma
- Key points
- Background and introduction
- Types of thoracic injuries
- Diagnostic testing
- Management of thoracic injuries
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Case study
- Declaration of interests
- Ethical Challenges in the Care of the Trauma Patient
- Case study
- Discussion
- Case study
- Discussion
- Case study
- Discussion
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Geriatric Trauma and Frailty: Improving Outcomes Through Multidisciplinary Care
- Key points
- Introduction
- Complexity of geriatric trauma
- Clinics care points
- Declaration of interests
- Evidence-Based Pearls: Falls in the Intensive Care Unit
- Key points
- Introduction
- Discussion
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Declaration of interests
- Evidence-Based Pearls: Traumatic Brain Injury
- Key points
- Clinical relevance and diagnostics
- Non-operative treatment
- Operative management
- Complications
- Nursing considerations
- Case study
- Clinics care points
- Disclosure
- The Complexity of Trauma for LGBTQ+ People: Considerations for Acute and Critical Care
- Key points
- Introduction
- Background
- Health and health care disparity
- Trauma-related entry into acute and critical care
- Nursing considerations
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Management of Intra-abdominal Traumatic Injury
- Key points
- Mechanisms and injury patterns
- Evaluation, assessment, and diagnosis
- Physiologic impact and resuscitation recommendation
- Organ-specific trauma considerations
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Disclosure
- Trauma in the Obstetric Patient
- Key points
- Trauma in the obstetric patient
- Introduction
- Maternal physiologic adaptations related to trauma
- Approach
- Management
- Special considerations
- Clinics care points
- Summary
- Impact of the Social Determinants of Health on Adult Trauma Outcomes
- Key points
- Introduction
- Racial disparities
- The environment
- Social and community context
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Using Principles of Therapeutic Communication to Enhance Trauma-Informed Care in the Critical Care Setting to Promote Positive Encounters
- Key points
- Introduction
- Discussion
- Recommendations
- Considerations for practice
- Implications for future research
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Declaration of Interests
- Edition: 1
- Volume: 35-2
- Published: May 4, 2023
- Imprint: Elsevier
- No. of pages: 240
- Language: English
- Hardback ISBN: 9780323939331
- eBook ISBN: 9780323939348
JV
Jeanette Vaughan
Affiliations and expertise
Instructor of Clinical Nursing, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, Formerly, Professor of Nursing, Collins CollegeWV
Whitney Villegas
Affiliations and expertise
John Peter Smith Hospital