Acute Medical Emergencies: A Nursing Guide (A Nurse's Survival Guide) - Softcover

Harrison M.D., Richard N.; Daly, Lynda

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0443064229 ISBN 13: 9780443064227

Publisher: Churchill Livingstone, 2001

Synopsis

This is an essential pocket guide for nurses coping with patients with acute medical conditions. It focuses on events within the first critical twenty-four hours of admission and provides an up-to-date, evidence-based guide to the management of these patients. The most common emergency medical conditions are described and explained in terms of the underlying disease mechanisms. The book also describes the assessment, observations and management in relation to disease processes and in line with the latest guidelines and protocols. Nursing care is related to the underlying disease. This book bridges the gap between a pure nursing text and a medical guide to emergency admissions. Practical advice is laid out in a clear, accessible style with extensive use of lists, tables and boxed material to highlight critical nursing tasks and enable quick location of vital information.

About this title

Review

"This excellent book is highly nursing orientated, but contains sufficient technical and physiological information to support the care and explain the signs and symptoms. A must for any student or staff nurse on a medical placement." Helen Hand, justfornurses.co.uk, May 2002

From the Author

There is a completely updated second edition of this book
with important changes to managementand protocols published in July 2006

Edition details

• Publisher: Churchill Livingstone
• Publication date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0443064229
• ISBN 13: 9780443064227
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 404