Minor Injuries - Elsevier eBook on VitalSource (Retail Access Card),3rd Edition
A highly successful volume which explores the nurse-led management of minor injuries complete with online training videos. The latest edition reflects the difference in approach between midline injuries and limb injuries, explores the differences between the management of children and adults, and presents key information on X-ray interpretation.
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Key Features
- Clear and friendly writing style makes learning especially easy
- Case Studies ‘bring the subject to life’ and provide an opportunity to reflect on the implications for clinical practice
- Useful ‘pull out’ boxes summarise essential information to further reinforce learning
- Explains the importance of accurate record keeping, including reference to current law
- Discusses the management of trauma in children and adolescents with special reference to consent and confidentiality, non-accidental injury, communication, analgesia, and sports injuries
- Describes working methods which are robust, flexible and swift
- More than 150 illustrations help clarify sometimes complex anatomical and clinical information
- Explains the processes of history taking and patient examination
- Explains the classification of musculoskeletal injuries and use of current investigative techniques
- Chapter on wound care, including burns, describes wound assessment, exploration, infection, treatment and complications
- Explains the management of minor head injuries, including clinical examination, the use of imaging techniques, cranial nerve assessment, and discharge advice
- Explains normal limb movement to contextualise abnormal presentation
- Chapter on facial trauma includes damage to the eye, ENT problems such as foreign bodies, and tooth avulsion
- Accompanying EVOLVE website contains 77 videos showing the techniques described in the book and a fully downloadable image bank to aid personal study
- Perfect for use in Emergency Departments, Minor Injury Units, Walk in Centres
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New to This Edition
- Contains a new section on X-ray interpretation
- Content re-organised to reflect the difference in approach between midline injuries and limb injuries
- Discusses the differences in the management of children and adults, and the two different categories of older people - the active and fit retiree and the frail older person.
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Contents
Part 1 General issues
1 Minor injuries: an overview
2 Clinical examination and the written record
3 X-rays and the non-medical referrer
Part 2 Limb injuries
4 Basics of musculoskeletal injury
5 Basics of musculoskeletal examination
6 The shoulder
7 The elbow
8 The forearm, wrist and hand
9 The pelvis and hip
10 The knee
11 The lower leg
Part 3 Midline injuries
12 Minor head injuries
13 The face, the eye and ENT
14 The spine
15 The chest
Part 4 Wounds and burns
16 Wounds and burns
References
Bibliography
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Authors
Dennis Purcell, MA, RGN, Minor Injuries Nurse Educator, NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde, Glasgow, UK
