cover image - Minor Injuries - Elsevier eBook on VitalSource (Retail Access Card), 4th Edition
ISBN: 9780702083891
Copyright: 2023
Publication Date: 10-21-2022
Page Count: 316
Imprint: Elsevier
List Price: $45.99

Minor Injuries - Elsevier eBook on VitalSource (Retail Access Card), 4th Edition

by Dennis Purcell, MA, RGN

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cover image - Minor Injuries - Elsevier eBook on VitalSource (Retail Access Card), 4th Edition
ISBN: 9780702083891
Copyright: 2023
Publication Date: 10-21-2022
Page Count: 316
Imprint: Elsevier
List Price: $45.99
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    • Simple and accessible – takes you through the body step by step
    • Beautifully illustrated, now with more images (many based on the author’s own designs)
    • Diagrams highlight anatomy, types of injuries, techniques such as suture, photos of examination procedures, and X-rays
    • 11 videos showing examination of all limb joints, the cranial nerves, chest, neck and back
    • Aligned with current NICE and SIGN guidelines
    • New figures illustrating cranial nerve examination and other areas
    • New case studies for each chapter on limb examination, helping readers from examination through to diagnosis and note taking
    • New material on changes to the laws on X-ray requesting and on tetanus vaccination
  • Part 1: First principles
    1. Minor injuries: an overview
    2 Clinical examination and the written record
    3. X-rays and the emergency nurse practitioner as 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
    Index
  • Dennis Purcell, MA, RGN, Minor Injuries Nurse Educator, NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde, Glasgow, UK
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