Acute Medical Emergencies: A Nursing Guide (A Nurses Survival Guide)

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.

Reflects current practice it is bang up to date in style and content.

Key information will be set in an accessible and readable style

Focuses on a crucial timeframe for clinical input if they get it right in the first 24 hours, the patients chances are so much better

"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