Community Emergency Medicine

by Wardrope, Jim; Driscoll, Peter; Laird, Colville; Woollard, Malcolm

• ISBN13: 9780443103254
• ISBN10: 0443103259
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-04-03
• Publisher: Elsevier Science Health Science div

Summary

This title is directed primarily towards health care professionals outside of the United States. It guides the decision-making process using a system of assessment that identifies those patients who need immediate life saving treatment and those who need hospital care. The book also concentrates on the assessment and management of the patients who will be managed in the community. It connects emergency care with the community and secondary care and places it firmly in the context of patient care pathways. guides the decision making process through a system that enables swift assessment of patients covers a wide range of presentations including chest pain; shortness of breath; paediatric emergencies; abdominal pain; ENT problems; itch and rash; care of the older patient; musculoskeletal problems; neurological problems; psychiatric problems explores ethical issues

Table of Contents

Contributors	p. vii
Preface	p. ix
Acknowledgements	p. xi
Introduction, summary, the system of care	p. 1
The system of assessment and care of the primary survey positive patient	p. 15
Chest pain	p. 37
Shortness of breath	p. 53
The ill child - assessment and identification of primary survey positive children	p. 75
Childhood illness - assessment and management of primary survey negative children	p. 93
Nausea, vomiting and fever	p. 117
Problems in older people	p. 129
Abdominal pain, abdominal pain in women, complications of pregnancy and labour	p. 141
Management of neurological emergencies	p. 159
ENT problems	p. 171
Management of allergy, rashes and itching	p. 197
The assessment and care of musculoskeletal problems	p. 223
Overdose and self harm	p. 241
Mental illness assessment, management of depression and self harm; the Mental Health Act	p. 253
Assessing and managing psychosis, drug misuse and violence and aggression	p. 269
Index	p. 291
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