Community emergency medicine
By: edited by Jim Wardrope ... [et al.].
Contributors: Wardrope, Jim.
Publisher: Elsevier/Churchill Livingstone
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Edinburgh; New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780443103254
Subjects: Emergency medical services -- Great Britain; Community health services -- Great Britain; Triage (Medicine) -- Great Britain; Emergencies -- Great Britain; Emergency Treatment -- Great Britain
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction, summary, the system of care / Jim Wardrope, Colville Laird and Peter Driscoll; title: The system of assessment and care of the primary survey positive patient / Jim Wardrope and Roderick MacKenzie; title: Chest pain / Colville Laird, Peter Driscoll and Jim Wardrope; title: Shortness of breath / Malcolm Woollard and Ian Greaves; title: The ill child: assessment and identification of primary survey positive children / Malcolm Woollard and Fiona Jewkes; title: Childhood illness: assessment and management of primary survey negative children / Fiona Jewkes and Malcolm Woollard; title: Nausea, vomiting and fever / John Hall and Peter Driscoll; title: Problems in older people / Peter Lawson and Chris Richmond; title: Abdominal pain, abdominal pain in women, complications of pregnancy and labour / James Gray, Jim Wardrope and Diana Jane Fothergill; title: Management of neurological emergencies / Carole Gavin and James Gray; title: ENT problems / S. Carter and Colville Laird; title: Management of allergy, rashes and itching / Mike Langlands and Colville Laird; title: The assessment and care of musculo-skeletal problems / Chris Fitzsimmons and Jim Wardrope; title: Overdose and self harm / Jim Wardrope and Peter Driscoll; title: Mental illness assessment, management of depression and self harm: the mental health act / Rosie Doy, Derek Burroughs and John Scott; title: Assessing and managing psychosis, drug misuse and violence and aggression / Rosie Doy, Elizabeth Janes Blowers and Emma Sutton.