UPDATED!Disaster preparedness, response and recovery for mass casualty incidents prepares students to act quickly and confidently in the event of a disaster, with guidelines for initial response and sustained response.
UPDATED!The latest sepsis protocols, opioid use and pain/sedation protocols, and treating injured patients with diabetes.
Special populations coverage prepares you to meet the needs of unique trauma patient populations including pregnant women, children, the elderly, bariatric individuals, burn patients, those with a history of substance abuse and organ donors.
Coverage of specific issues that affect all patients regardless of their injury, gives you a solid understating of mechanism of injury, traumatic shock, patient/family psychosocial responses to trauma, pain, anxiety, delirium and sleep management; infection; wound healing, and nutrition.
Tables and illustrations throughout add clarity to the content being discussed.
Karen A. McQuillan, RN, MS, CNS-BC, CCRN, CNRN, TCRN, FAAN, Lead Clinical Nurse Specialist, R. Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center, University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD, Mary Beth Flynn Makic, PhD APRN CCNS CCRN FAAN FNAP FCNS, Professor, University of Colorado College of Nursing, Aurora, Colorado; Nurse Scientist, Denver Health, Denver, Colorado, USA and Eileen Whalen, RN, BSN, MHA, Vice President, Trauma, Emergency and Perioperative Services, University Medical Center, Tucson, AZ
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