A Nurse's Survival Guide to Acute Medical Emergencies, 3rd Edition

Richard N. Harrison, Lynda Daly
Elsevier
464 pages
ISBN-13: 978-0702076664
August 2018

This is your indispensable primer of acute medical care – a pocket guide to caring for patients with acute medical conditions.

This book will help you to

• care for patients in the first critical 24 hours of admission

• manage patients using the most up-to-date evidence based approach

• understand the most common emergency medical conditions and their underlying disease mechanisms

• handle the patient’s assessment , understand the observations and manage their disease

• easily obtain clear practical advice

• know what to tell the patient and relatives using jargon-free language

• access information on SARS, avian influenza and bio-terrorism