| Description |
305 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction, summary, the system of care / Jim Wardrope, Colville Laird and Peter Driscoll -- The system of assessment and care of the primary survey positive patient / Jim Wardrope and Roderick MacKenzie -- Chest pain / Colville Laird, Peter Driscoll and Jim Wardrope -- Shortness of breath / Malcolm Woollard and Ian Greaves -- The ill child: assessment and identification of primary survey positive children / Malcolm Woollard and Fiona Jewkes -- Childhood illness: assessment and management of primary survey negative children / Fiona Jewkes and Malcolm Woollard -- Nausea, vomiting and fever / John Hall and Peter Driscoll -- Problems in older people / Peter Lawson and Chris Richmond -- Abdominal pain, abdominal pain in women, complications of pregnancy and labour / James Gray, Jim Wardrope and Diana Jane Fothergill -- Management of neurological emergencies / Carole Gavin and James Gray -- ENT problems / S. Carter and Colville Laird -- Management of allergy, rashes and itching / Mike Langlands and Colville Laird -- The assessment and care of musculo-skeletal problems / Chris Fitzsimmons and Jim Wardrope -- Overdose and self harm / Jim Wardrope and Peter Driscoll -- Mental illness assessment, management of depression and self harm: the mental health act / Rosie Doy, Derek Burroughs and John Scott -- Assessing and managing psychosis, drug misuse and violence and aggression / Rosie Doy, Elizabeth Janes Blowers and Emma Sutton |
| Notes |
Formerly CIP. Uk |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Community health services -- Great Britain.
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Community health services.
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Emergency medical services -- Great Britain.
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Emergency medical services.
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Emergency medicine.
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Triage (Medicine)
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Triage (Medicine) -- Great Britain.
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Emergencies.
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Emergency Treatment.
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| SUBJECT |
United Kingdom. https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D006113 |
| Author |
Wardrope, Jim.
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| LC no. |
2007001412 |
| ISBN |
0443103259 |
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9780443103254 |
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