TY  - BOOK
AU  - Harrison,Richard
AU  - Daly,Lynda
TI  - A nurse's survival guide to acute medical emergencies
T2  - A Nurse's Survival Guide
SN  - 9780702076671 (ePub ebook) :
U1  - 616.025/HAR 23
PY  - 2018///
CY  - Amsterdam
PB  - Elsevier
KW  - Emergency nursing
N1  - Previous edition: 2011; <p>Abbreviations </p> <ol> <p><li>Introduction: Immediate assessment of the critically ill </li> <p>ABCDE: Immediate assessment and intervention </p> <p>Early warning: Track and Trigger </p> <p>National Early Warning Score </p> <p>Communication - NEWS and SBAR</p><b> <p><li>Cardiology </li> </b> <p>Acute severe breathlessness </p> <p>Cardiac failure </p> <p>Heart muscle damage </p> <p>Valvular disease </p> <p>Rhythm disturbance </p> <p>Types of heart failure </p> <p>Left heart failure </p> <p>Right heart failure </p> <p>Congestive cardiac failure </p> <p>Right heart failure and COPD </p> <p>Diastolic heart failure </p> <p>Clinical features and management of cardiac failure </p> <p>Acute left ventricular failure </p> <p>Acute on chronic congestive cardiac failure<b> </p></b> <p>Ischaemic heart disease </p> <p>Chest pain </p> <p>Acute coronary syndromes, NSTEMIs and Unstable Angina </p> <p>Sudden cardiac death </p> <p>Atrial fibrillation and arterial emboli </p> <p>Causes of atrial fibrillation </p> <p>Importance of atrial fibrillation </p> <p>Complications of atrial fibrillation </p> <p>Diagnosis of atrial fibrillation </p> <p>Management of atrial fibrillation </p> <p>Infective endocarditis </p> <p>Drugs in the management of acute heart disease </p><b> <p><li>Respiratory medicine </li> </b> <p>The breathless patient: the general approach </p> <p>Respiratory failure </p> <p>Type I and Type II respiratory failure </p> <p>Principles of treatment </p> <p>Acute severe asthma </p> <p>Mechanisms </p> <p>Assessment of acute severe asthma </p> <p>Management of acute severe asthma<b> </p></b> <p>Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease </p> <p>Mechanisms </p> <p>Management of acute exacerbations of COPD </p> <p>Non-invasive ventilation </p> <p>Pneumonia</p> <p>Assessment </p> <p>The severity score in pneumonia: CURB-65 </p> <p>Management of pneumonia </p> <p>Antibiotics </p> <p>Spontaneous pneumothorax </p> <p>Nursing the patient with a chest drain </p><b> <p><li>Acute neurological problems </li> </b> <p>Ensuring the safety of the patient </p> <p>Prioritising the initial management: GCS and ABCDE </p> <p>Managing ‘medical’ and ‘neurological’ coma </p> <p>Responding to neurological deterioration </p> <p>Stroke and stroke-like emergencies </p> <p>Cerebral infarction </p> <p>Transient ischaemic attacks </p> <p>Intracerebral haemorrhage </p> <p>Subarachnoid haemorrhage </p> <p>Subdural haemorrhage </p> <p>Extradural haemorrhage </p> <p>Nursing the patient with a stroke: the first 24 h </p> <p>Meningococcal meningitis</p> <p>Acute severe headache </p> <p>Subarachnoid haemorrhage</p> <p>Lumbar puncture</p> <p>Sudden loss of consciousness: faints and fits </p> <p>The basic mechanisms: syncope </p> <p>The basic mechanisms: epileptic seizures </p> <p>Pseudoseizures (non-epileptic seizures) </p> <p>Acute paralysis of the lower limbs </p> <p>Spinal cord compression </p> <p>Guillain-Barré syndrome </p> <b> <p><li>Gastroenterology </li> </b> <p>Nausea and vomiting underlying mechanisms </p> <p>Nausea and vomiting in acute medical conditions </p> <p>Acute upper gastrointestinal haemorrhage </p> <p>Management of upper gastrointestinal haemorrhage </p> <p>Portal hypertension and the management of oesophageal varices</p> <p>Acute liver failure and hepatic encephalopathy </p> <p>Acute jaundice </p> <p>Acute abdominal pain </p> <p>Acute diarrhoea: sources and courses </p> <p>Infective diarrhoea</p> <p>Clostridium difficile diarrhoea </p> <p>Infective diarrhoea versus acute ulcerative colitis </p> <p>Medical conditions presenting with gastrointestinal symptoms </p> <b> <p><li>Diabetic complications </li> </b> <p>Diabetes on the Acute Medical Unit: the general approach </p> <p>Normal blood sugar control and the nature of diabetes </p> <p>An overview of Type I and Type II diabetes </p> <p>Acute medical conditions associated with diabetes </p> <p>Diabetic renal disease </p> <p>Diabetic neuropathy </p> <p>Cardiovascular disease </p> <p>Cerebrovascular disease </p> <p>Peripheral vascular disease </p> <p>Blood sugar control in adverse medical situations </p> <p>Variable Rate Intravenous Insulin Infusion (VRIII) or GKI</p> <p>DIGAMI regimen </p> <p>Diabetic Keto Acidosis (DKA)</p> <p>Hyperosmolar non-ketotic diabetic coma (HONK) </p> <p>Hypoglycaemia </p> <p>Infective complications in diabetes: the acute diabetic foot</p> <b> <p><li>Thromboembolic disease </li> </b> <p>Thrombosis and thromboembolisation </p> <p>Mechanisms </p> <p>Superficial thrombophlebitis </p> <p>Deep vein thrombosis </p> <p>Pulmonary thromboembolism </p> <p>Tests to identify thromboembolic disease </p> <p>Management of pulmonary thromboembolism</p> <p>Nursing the patient with a suspected DVT </p> <p>Other causes of a swollen painful leg </p> <p>Cellulitis </p> <p>Necrotising fasciitis </p> <p>Management of a DVT </p> <p>Anticoagulation therapy </p> <b> <p><li>Deliberate self-harm, alcohol and substance abuse </li> </b> <p>Deliberate self-harm </p> <p>General principles </p> <p>Care of the unconscious patient: ABCDE </p> <p>The patient who refuses treatment </p> <p>Specific overdoses </p> <p>Benzodiazepines </p> <p>Paracetamol poisoning </p> <p>Antidepressant overdose </p> <p>Carbon monoxide poisoning </p> <p>Alcohol abuse </p> <p>Acute alcohol-withdrawal syndrome </p> <p>Cocaine 303 Ecstasy </p> <p>Heroin abuse </p> <p>Needle stick injuries </p> <p>Hospital-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infections </p> <p>Violent incidents </p> <b> <p><li>The ‘social admission’ </li> </b> <p>Common errors and omissions in the admission of elderly patients </p> <p>Taking a history from the patient </p> <p>Taking a history from a third party</p> <p>Falls </p> <p>The cause of falls </p> <p>Assessment after a fall </p> <p>Immobility </p> <p>Immediate safety of the patient: ABCDE </p> <p>Assessing the cause: establish the full history </p> <p>Delirium </p> <p>Dementia </p> <p>Nursing home admissions </p> <p>Ethical issues and the elderly sick </p> <p>The emergency admission of patients with a terminal disease </p> <b> <p><li>Multisystem failure </li> </b> <p>Shock: the basic mechanisms </p> <p>Cardiogenic shock </p> <p>Hypovolaemic shock </p> <p>Redistributive (low-resistance) shock </p> <p>Acute severe hypotensive collapse </p> <p>The importance of immediate resuscitation </p> <p>Ensuring adequate oxygen delivery to vital organs </p> <p>Oxygen therapy </p> <p>The blood pressure </p> <p>Inserting a CVP line </p> <p>Fluid challenge </p> <p>Surviving sepsis </p> <p>Anaphylactic reaction </p> <p>Emergency blood transfusion in shock </p> <p>Transfusion reactions </p> <p>Massive blood transfusion</p> <p>Acute kidney injury </p> <p>Management: resuscitation begin with ‘ABCDE’ </p> <p>Emergency (acute renal failure) management of hyperkalaemia </p> <p>Establishing a management plan </p> <p>Sudden collapse and cardiac arrest </p> <p>Chain of survival </p> <p>Basic life support </p> <p>After basic life support </p> <p>Do not attempt resuscitation </p> <p>Bereavement on the Acute Medical Unit </p> <b> <p><li>Emerging problems: outbreaks and deliberate releases - SARS, toxins and biological agents </li> </ol></b> <p>How infection spreads </p> <p>Severe acute respiratory syndrome </p> <p>Case definition of SARS </p> <p>Other emerging infections </p> <p>Unusual illnesses - deliberate release of infectious and chemical agents </p> <p>Deliberate release of infectious agents </p> <p>General principles </p> <p>Examples of potentia
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