Emergency Medicine Research Advances

by Jenkins, Diane M.

• ISBN13: 9781604561180
• ISBN10: 1604561181
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-09-01
• Publisher: NOVA SCIENCE PUBLISHERS INC

Summary

Emergency medicine is a branch of medicine that is practiced in a hospital emergency department, in the field by emergency medical service, such as paramedics, and other locations where initial medical treatment of illness takes place. Just as clinicians operate by immediacy rules under large emergency systems, emergency physicians and other allied health care workers in the emergency department base their practice on a triage system. Emergency medicine focuses on diagnosis and treatment of acute illnesses and injuries that require immediate medical attention. While not usually providing long-term or continuous care, emergency medicine physicians and paramedics still provide care with the aim of improving long-term patient outcome. This new book presents the latest research from around the globe in this field.

Table of Contents

Preface; Advances in Identifying Gaps in Emergency Medical Services Resource Availability; A Modest Proposal, Helping to Meet the Surge Environment in a Disaster; Diagnosis and Treatment in Acute Respiratory Failure in Emergency Departments: Specificities of the Elderly Patients; A Systematic Review of the Effectiveness of In-Hospital Psychosocial Intervention Programmes for Famulies Who Have a Relative Admitted to an Emergency Department; Procedural Sedation in the Emergency Department: Analysis and Summary of Important Clinical Considerations; Early Goal Directed Therapy to Manage Severe Sepsis in Emergency Departments: Past, Present and Future; Emergency Warfarin Reversal; A Model of Educational Video Intervention for Preventive Care in the Emergency Department; Crisis Intervention Model with Adolescent Presenting Somatic Complaints in Emergency Psychiatry; Intention to Change Heavy Episodic Drinking and Actual Change Seen Among Emergency Care Patients; Index.