Initial management of acute medical patients
Subtitle: a guide for nurses and healthcare practitioners
By: edited by Ian Wood, Michelle Garner
Edition: 2nd ed.
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Chichester, West Sussex
Language: eng
Number of pages: 310
ISBN-13: 9781444337167
Subjects: Acute Disease; Emergency Nursing; Methods; Nursing Assessment; Critical Care; Triage; Nursing
Other titles: Medical assessment units.
Notes: Rev. ed. of: Medical assessment units / edited by Ian Wood and Michelle Rhodes. London : Whurr, 2003.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Initial assessment of the acute medical patient; title: Vulnerable groups; title: Sudden death; title: Cardiac arrest; title: Shock; title: Altered consciousness; title: Shortness of breath; title: Chest pain; title: Abdominal pain and upper gastrointestinal bleeding; title: Extremity pain and swelling.