Essential Procedures for Emergency, Urgent, and Primary Care Settings: A Clinical Companion

This concise, easy-to-use guide illustrates how to perform more than 60 commonly used clinical procedures, including the newest trends in sonography-guided procedures in emergent, urgent, and ambulatory care settings. The procedures are consistently formatted, presented in step-by-step detail, and organized into system-specific categories for easy access to information. The second edition is the only resource that gives a comprehensive overview of bedside ultrasound, with two new chapters completely devoted to how it is used as a tool to enhance the accuracy of numerous procedures. Multiple chapters describe the use of ultrasound to increase the accuracy of a variety of procedures, such as locating and removing a foreign body in the eye or from soft body tissues. The second edition includes evidence-based guidelines for performing more than 10 new procedures.

Each procedure includes background considerations, indications for performing the procedure, how to perform it safely and correctly, contraindications, required documentation, complications, post-procedure considerations, and patient education points. Original photos, actual sonographic footage, line drawings, and tables reinforce the written directions. "Pearls" and extensive references at the end of each chapter further enhance the book's utility.

New to the Second Edition:

• Chapters on the use of sonography to enhance the accuracy of many procedures
• More than 10 new procedures
• Four-color photos clearly illustrate each step in procedures
• Links to videos of surgical procedures are prominently displayed in the text
• Reflects latest guidelines and evidence-based practice
• Provides step-by-step illustrated guidance for performing 60 frequently used procedures in urgent care and in ambulatory, clinic, and office settings

Theresa M. Campo, DNP, APRN, FAANP, FAAN, is vice president of accreditation, conference, & education for the American Association of Nurse Practitioners. Previously, she was chair of the Department of Emergency Medical Services (EMS), director of the Emergency Nurse Practitioner Track, and an associate clinical professor at Drexel University. Clinically, she is board-certified as a family nurse practitioner and worked part-time as a nurse practitioner in southern New Jersey. 

Keith A. Lafferty, MD, FAAEM, received his BA in biology cum laude from Holy Family University in 1989 and his MD from the Medical College of Pennsylvania in 1994. At the completion of his training, his colleagues bestowed upon him the “Senior Resident Teaching” award. Following his residency in emergency medicine and a faculty fellowship in critical care, he spent ten years in full-time academia as a medical student director and a critical care director. Dr. Lafferty is the former co-director of emergency medicine at Gulf Coast Medical Center, director of fire-based EMS in Fort Myers, Florida, adjunct assistant professor of emergency medicine at Temple University, board member of the Holy Family University Pre-Medical Committee, board member of the Holy Family University President’s Advisory Committee and Board of Trustees member elect. As a physician, Dr. Lafferty specializes in emergency medicine and practices in both Philadelphia and Fort Myers, Florida. As an author, he has written numerous chapters and manuscripts, mostly having to do with critical care, emergency medicine and procedures dealing with both specialties. He has presented many of his research papers at the local and national levels. Because of his training, practice, and teaching in both emergency and critical care medicine, he passionately advocates the hybridization of these specialties in caring for the sickest of patients.