Main description:

Emergency and Trauma Care for Nurses and Paramedics 2e, edited by Kate Curtis and Clair Ramsden, introduces the student to emergency nursing and paramedicine, the principles of patient care, as well providing a thorough knowledge-base for practicing emergency and trauma care and patient presentations.

Emergency and Trauma Care for Nurses and Paramedics 2e provides fully revised, in-depth contributions from practitioners based within specialist paramedic, emergency nursing and emergency medical and surgical professions. The new edition is an up-to-date resource for the student reflecting current pre-hospital and emergency department practice as well as considering the requirements of each specialist role. Important topics such as interdisciplinary practice, evidence-based decision making, continuity of care and key federal and government initiatives are included and each chapter includes a new section on emerging trends and evidence as well as critical thinking questions.

Contents:

1. Emergency nursing and the practice environment
2. Pre-hospital care overview in Australia and New Zealand
3. Clinical ethics for emergency healthcare
4. Emergency care and the law
5. Cultural considerations in emergency care
6. Management and leadership
7. Professional development
8. Research for emergency care
9. Patient education
10. Scene assessment, management and rescue
11. Pre-hospital clinical reasoning, triage and communication
12. Major incident preparedness management
13. Emergency nursing triage
14. Patient assessment and essentials of care
15. Resuscitation
16. Stabilisation and transfer
17. Clinical skills
18. Minor injury and management
19. Pain management
20. Physiology for emergency care
21. Respiratory emergencies
22. Cardiovascular emergencies
23. Neurological emergencies
24. Gastrointestinal emergencies
25. Renal and genitourinary emergencies
26. Endocrine emergencies
27. Infectious and communicable diseases
28. Pandemics and Environmental emergencies
29. Haematological emergencies
30. Toxicological emergencies
31. Envenomation
32. Dental, ear, nose and throat emergencies
33. Ocular emergencies and trauma
34. Gynaecological emergencies
35. Obstetric emergencies
36. Paediatric emergencies
37. Mental health emergencies
38. People with disabilities
39. The older person
40. Violence, abuse and assault
41. Alcohol, tobacco and other drug use
42. An overview of trauma
43. Mechanisms of injury
44. Major trauma initial assessment and management
45. Traumatic brain injury
46. Faciomaxillary trauma
47. Thoracic and neck trauma
48. Abdominal and genitourinary trauma
49. Spinal trauma
50. Major orthopaedic and neurovascular trauma
51. Blast injury
52. Burns trauma
53. Death and dying
54. Organ and tissue donation