Medical Assessment Units (eBook, PDF)

The Initial Mangement of Acute Medical Patients
Redaktion: Taylor, John B.; Rhodes, Michelle

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Increasing demands on acute hospital resources, together with a reduction in the number of available beds, has placed a greater emphasis on the need for rapid and effective assessment of patients in order to determine their need for hospital adsmission. This has led to the widespread emergence of the specialist Medical Assessment Unit (MAU). This timely book provides an up- to-date guide to the assessment and immediate management of patients with acute medical conditions. It presents a structured approach based on common presenting features and focuses on the first twenty four hours of the patient's stay in hospital. In writing this book, the editors have been able to draw on their own clinical experiences as a charge nurse in Accident and Emergency nursing and a sister in acute cardiology and respectively.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Februar 2006
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780470032428
• Artikelnr.: 38212153

Autorenporträt

John Brian Taylor is the Mary and Robert Raymond Professor of Economics at Stanford University, and the George P. Shultz Senior Fellow in Economics at Stanford University's Hoover Institution. Michelle Rhodes is the editor of Medical Assessment Units: The Initial Mangement of Acute Medical Patients, published by Wiley.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction. 1. Service Organisation in Medical Assessment Units
Ian wood. 2. Initial Assessment of The Acute Mental Patient
Michelle Davies
Judith morgan and Ian Wood. 3. Vulnerable Groups
Linda Miller
Michael Ginns
Judy thorley and Elizabeth Whelan. 4. Sudden Death
Sue Read and Jane Jervis. 5. cardiac Arrest
Carole Donaldson
Ian Wood and Michelle Rhodes. 6. Shock
Judith Morgan. 7. Altered Consciousness
Brendan Davies
Michelle Davies. Lorraine Taylor and Ian Wood. 8. Shortness of Breath
Susan Hope
Jacqueline Mitchell
michelle Rhodes
Helen Whitehouse and Ian Wood. 9. Chest Pain
Michelle Rhodes. 10. Abdominal Pain and Upper Gastrointestinal Bleeding
Ruth Harris and Terry Wardle. 11. Extremity Pain and Swelling
Ian Wood