Emergency and Trauma Care for nurses and paramedics is a highly respected emergency care text for nursing and paramedicine students and clinicians in Australia and New Zealand. Now in its fourth edition, it provides the most up-to-date and comprehensive coverage of the spectrum of emergency and trauma care.
The text spans prehospital and hospital care, enabling students to understand the patient journey and equipping them for their role in a multidisciplinary team. Coverage includes assessment, triage and management of trauma, physiology of emergency care, and the recognition and management of specific body system emergencies, as well as the fundamentals of emergency care such as quality and safety, ethics, leadership, research and patient education.
Fully revised to reflect the dynamic and evolving nature of emergency and trauma care, this book is ideal for students, prehospital care providers, rural, remote and urban emergency and trauma care nurses, and other disaster management clinicians.
SECTION ONE: OVERVIEW OF EMERGENCY CARE 1. Emergency nursing in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand 2. Paramedicine in Australia and Aotearoa 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. Physiology and pathophysiology for emergency care 11. Clinical reasoning, problem-solving and triage 12. Major incident preparedness and management 13. Patient assessment and essentials of 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 THREE: 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 in emergency care 28. Environmental emergencies 29. Oncological and haematological emergencies 30. Toxicological emergencies 31. Dental, ear, nose and throat emergencies 32. Ocular emergencies and trauma 33. Gynaecological emergencies 34. Maternal emergencies 35. Paediatric emergencies 36. Mental health emergencies 37. People with disabilities 38. The older person 39. Violence, abuse and assault 40. Alcohol, tobacco and other drug use SECTION FOUR: 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 and genitourinary trauma 47. Spinal Trauma 48. Major orthopaedic and neurovascular trauma 49. Burns trauma
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