Evidence-Based Trauma Pearls, An Issue of Critical Care Nursing Clinics of North America

1st Edition, Volume 35-2 - May 4, 2023
Editors: Jeanette Vaughan, Whitney Villegas
Language: English
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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 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.

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

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