Trauma care
Subtitle: initial assessment and management in the emergency department
By: edited by Elaine Cole.
Contributors: Cole, Elaine.
Series: Essential clinical skills for nurses
Publisher: Blackwell Pub.; Wiley-Blackwell Pub.
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Chichester, West Sussex; Ames
Language: eng
Number of pages: 283
ISBN-13: 9781405162302
Subjects: Wounds and injuries -- Nursing; Emergency nursing; Wounds and Injuries -- diagnosis; Wounds and Injuries -- nursing; Wounds and Injuries -- therapy; Emergency Nursing -- methods; Nursing Assessment -- methods
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Mechanism of injury; title: Initial assessment and resuscitation of the trauma patient; title: Head injuries; title: Thoracic injuries; title: Spinal injuries; title: Abdominal injuries; title: Pelvic injuries; title: Extremity trauma; title: Burns; title: Paediatric trauma; title: Trauma in older people; title: Trauma in pregnancy; title: Trauma related deaths.