Minor Injuries
A Clinical Guide
- 4th Edition - July 12, 2022
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Author: Dennis Purcell
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 7 0 2 0 - 8 3 8 6 - 0
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 7 0 2 0 - 8 3 8 7 - 7
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Request a sales quoteAs nurses and other healthcare professionals become increasingly responsible for triage, assessment and treatment of minor injuries, this comprehensive training manual offers clear, reliable and up-to-date guidance for all those working in this rapidly changing field.
The first text of its kind, written by former nurse practitioner Dennis Purcell, Minor Injuries has been fully revised in its fourth edition and reorganized into a more logical structure. It provides easy-to-follow guidance on all common presentations occurring in children, adults and older patients, taking the reader through each region of the body and providing core anatomy and examination principles to support treatment decisions.
This popular text is richly illustrated throughout and will be indispensable for trainees undertaking minor injuries courses as well as practising nurses, emergency nurse practitioners, paramedics and advanced practitioners working in standalone minor injury units.
- Simple and accessible – takes you through the body step by step
- Beautifully illustrated, now with more images (many based on the author’s own designs)
- Diagrams highlight anatomy, types of injuries, techniques such as suture, photos of examination procedures, and X-rays
- 11 videos showing examination of all limb joints, the cranial nerves, chest, neck and back
- Aligned with current NICE and SIGN guidelines
- Cover Image
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Table of Contents
- Dedication
- Foreword
- Foreword to third edition
- Acknowledgments
- Part 1 First principles
- Chapter 1 Minor injuries: an overview
- Contents
- What do you do?
- A framework for minor injuries
- Chapter 2 Clinical examination and the written record
- Contents
- Minor injuries and the clinical process
- What does clinical mean?
- Diagnosis, differential diagnosis and the management pathway (Box 2.1)
- The clinical record
- The clinical history
- Recording the examination
- Case studies in writing a history
- Chapter 3 X-rays and the emergency nurse practitioner as referrer
- Contents
- X-rays
- X-rays, risk and benefit, the role of IRMER
- IRMER and the ENP
- Requesting X-rays
- Interpreting X-rays
- Part 2 Limb injuries
- Chapter 4 Basics of musculoskeletal injury
- Contents
- Introduction
- Terminology
- The musculoskeletal system and healing
- Treatment of acute injury
- Bone (Box 4.4)
- Bone healing (Box 4.9)
- Treatment of bone injury
- Routine treatment
- Immobilisation
- Soft connective tissues
- Chapter 5 Basics of musculoskeletal examination
- Contents
- Basic principles of examination
- Examination and the acutely injured patient
- The order of examination (Box 5.1)
- Fracture (Box 5.2)
- Musculoskeletal examination
- Complicating factors in examination (Box 5.3)
- Chapter 6 The shoulder
- Contents
- Introduction
- Anatomy
- Examination (Box 6.1)
- X-rays
- Injuries
- Chapter 7 The elbow
- Contents
- Introduction
- Anatomy
- Examination
- X-rays
- Injuries
- Case Studies
- Chapter 8 The forearm, wrist and hand
- Contents
- Introduction
- Anatomy
- Examination
- X-Rays
- Injuries
- Hand splinting
- Fractures
- Soft tissue injuries
- Overuse
- Infections
- Case Studies
- Chapter 9 The pelvis and hip
- Contents
- Introduction
- Anatomy
- Examination
- X-rays
- Injuries
- Case Studies
- Chapter 10 The knee
- Contents
- Introduction
- Anatomy
- Examination
- X-rays (Figs 10.13–10.15)
- Injuries
- Case Studies
- Chapter 11 The lower leg
- Contents
- Introduction
- Anatomy (Fig. 11.1)
- Examination
- X-rays
- Injuries
- Case Studies
- Part 3 Midline injuries
- Chapter 12 Minor head injuries
- Contents
- Head injuries and injuries to the midline
- Anatomy
- Minor head injuries and imaging
- Examination
- NICE guidelines for discharge or referral from an MIU (Boxes 12.6 and 12.7)
- Chapter 13 The face, the eye and ENT
- Contents
- Introduction
- The face
- The eye
- Ear, nose and throat (ENT)
- Chapter 14 The spine
- Contents
- Introduction
- Nerve root pain and focal neurology
- The neck
- The lower back
- Summary
- Chapter 15 The chest
- Contents
- Introduction
- Anatomy
- Injuries
- Examination
- Treatment
- Part 4 Wounds and burns
- Chapter 16 Wounds and burns
- Contents
- Introduction
- Types of wounds
- When is a wound minor?
- Assessment and exploration of wounds
- Wound cleaning
- Wound infection
- Wound treatment
- Special types of wound
- Minor (noncomplex) burns
- References
- Bibliography
- Index
- Edition: 4
- Published: July 12, 2022
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN: 9780702083860
- eBook ISBN: 9780702083877
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Dennis Purcell
Affiliations and expertise
Minor Injuries Nurse Educator, NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde, Glasgow, UK