Are you a nurse, a physician's associate or a medical student in an
acute or emergency unit?
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
This updated edition
- contains improved sections on stroke care, diabetes and sepsis,
- introduces the NEWS 2 observation chart
- has revised its case histories in line with current practice
This updated edition:
contains improved sections on stroke care, diabetes and sepsis,
introduces the NEWS 2 observation chart
has revised its case histories in line with current practice
improved sections on stroke care, diabetes and sepsis,
introduction of the NEWS 2 observation chart
revised case histories in line with current practice