Emergency and trauma care : for nurses and paramedics / Kate Curtis, Clair Ramsden.

This adaptation of Sheehy's Emergency Nursing: Principles and Practice, Sixth Edition, edited by Patricia Kunz Howard and Rebecca A. Steinmann was undertaken by Elsevier Australia and is published by arrangement with Elsevier Inc.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Section 1. Overview of emergency care : -- Section 2. Systems and clinical fundamentals : -- Section 3. Clinical concepts and systems : -- Section 4. Emergencies : -- Section 5. Major trauma : -- Section 6. End of life : -- --

Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Contributors -- Reviewers -- Section 1. Overview of emergency care : -- 1. Emergency nursing in Australia and New Zealand -- 2. Pre-hospital care overview in Australia and New Zealand - past, present and future -- 3. Clinical ethics for emergency healthcare -- 4. Emergency care and the law -- 5. Cultural considerations in emergency care -- 6. Management and leadership -- Section 2. Systems and clinical fundamentals : -- 7. Professional development -- 8. Research for emergency care -- 9. Patient education -- Section 3. Clinical concepts and systems : -- 10. Scene assessment, management and rescue -- 11. Pre-hospital clinical reasoning, triage and communication -- 12. Major incident preparedness management -- 13. Triage and emergency nurses -- 14. Patient assessment and essentials of care -- 15. Resuscitation -- 16. Stabilisation and transfer -- 17. Clinical skills -- 18. Minor injury and management -- 19. Pain management -- 20. Physiology for emergency care -- Section 4. Emergencies : -- 21. Respiratory emergencies -- 22. Cardiovascular emergencies -- 23. Neurological emergencies -- 24. Gastrointestinal emergencies -- 25. Renal and genitourinary emergencies -- 26. Endocrine emergencies -- 27. Healthcare-associated infections and communicable diseases -- 28. Environmental emergencies and pandemics -- 29. Haematological emergencies -- 30. Toxicological emergencies -- 31. Envenomation -- 32. Dental, ear, nose and throat emergencies -- 33. Ocular emergencies and trauma -- 34. Gynaecological emergencies -- 35. Obstetric emergencies -- 36. Paediatric emergencies -- 37. Mental health emergencies -- 38. People with disabilities -- 39. The older person -- 40. Violence, abuse and assault -- 41. Alcohol, tobacco and other drug use -- Section 5. Major trauma : -- 42. An overview of traumatic injury -- 43. Mechanisms of injury -- 44. Major trauma initial assessment and management -- 45. Traumatic brain injury -- 46. Faciomaxillary trauma -- 47. Thoracic and neck trauma -- 48. Abdominal and genitourinary trauma -- 49. Spinal trauma -- 50. Major orthopaedic and neurovascular trauma -- 51. Blast injury -- 52. Burns trauma -- Section 6. End of life : -- 53. Death and dying -- 54. Organ and tissue donation -- Index.

"The second edition of Emergency and Trauma Care for Nurses and Paramedics provides the most up-to-date and comprehensive coverage of clinical procedures and issues encountered in contemporary emergency care in Australia and New Zealand. Written by leading academics and clinicians, this fully revised and updated edition follows the patient's journey from pre-hospital retrieval to definitive care. With a strong focus on multidisciplinary care, this evidence-based emergency and trauma resource will appeal to pre-hospital care providers, rural, remote and urban emergency nurses and allied health professionals, as well as disaster management and interfacility transport staff."--Publisher's website.