| Description |
1 online resource (421 pages) : illustrations |
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Emergencies in .. |
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Emergencies in-- series.
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| Contents |
Cover; Contents; List of Contributors; 1 Principles of care; Children's rights; Consent to treatment in children and young people; Communicating with a child in preparation for an emergency procedure; Preserving autonomy and respect; Health care policy standards for children's emergency care; Communication through play; Breaking significant news during an emergency; Writing patient information leaflets for families discharged from emergency environments; Family-centred care; Emergency care of children: abiding by the NMC Code; Record keeping; Interprofessional working |
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Safeguarding children: information sharingIdentifying abuse and mistreatment in emergency care; Sexual abuse; Transport and transfer of the sick or injured child; Safe discharge of children from the emergency department; Observational assessment; Safeguarding children; Paediatric physiology; Medicine administration; Managing aggressive situations; Clinical holding; Performing an emergency X-ray on a child; 2 Critical events; Recognition of the sick child; Recognizing a seriously ill child; Reasons why children arrest; Paediatric basic life support (BLS); Paediatric advanced life support (ALS) |
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Newborn life support (NLS)Witnessed resuscitation; Withholding and withdrawing curative treatment; Post mortem examination and organ donation; Last offices; Post-bereavement care; Apnoea/apparent life threatening event (ALTE); Sudden unexplained death in infancy (SUDI); Unexpected death; Multiple trauma; Infectious disease outbreaks; 3 Neurological problems; Unconsciousness; Meningitis; Encephalitis; Poisoning; Role of the National Poisons Centres; Epilepsy; Febrile convulsion; Head injury in children; Trauma induced raised intracranial pressure; Raised intracranial pressure (nontraumatic) |
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Encephalopathy4 Respiratory problems; Recognizing respiratory distress; Acute epiglottitis; Management of pneumonia; Bronchiolitis; Croup; Pertussis (whooping cough); Anaphylaxis and angio-oedema; Acute asthma; Management of fractured ribs; Management of pneumothorax; Management of haemothorax; Thoracic trauma; Thoracic cardiovascular injury; Choking; Management of drowning in children; 5 Circulatory problems; Shock; Fluid and electrolyte balance; Haemorrhage; Managing the child or young person with toxic shock syndrome; Meningococcal disease |
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Cardiac tamponade and pulseless electrical activity (PEA)Management of electrocution in children; Gunshot injuries; Knife injuries; 6 Gastrointestinal problems; Damage from ingestion; Abdominal pain; Management of intussusception; Appendicitis; Gastroenteritis; Abdominal trauma; 7 Skin and connective tissue problems; Gluing wounds; Facial lacerations; Lacerations, cuts and contusions; Cellulitis; Impetigo; Management of eczema herpeticum (Kaposi varicelliform) in children; Emergency management of burns and scalds; Snake bites; Animal bites; Suturing wounds; 8 Musculoskeletal problems |
| Summary |
This book is a survival guide for all nurses who provide emergency care to children and young people. It helps those nurses who are at the front-line of care to quickly assess the level of emergency and plan the initial management. The consistent layout and the note-style format allows them to find and take in information quickly, whilst on the ward. Written by nurses, for nurses, this quick-reference book contains the most important information nurses need to know when caring forchildren and young people |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Overview of fractures and dislocations |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Pediatric nursing.
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Emergency nursing.
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Children.
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Adolescent
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Child
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Pediatric Nursing
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Emergency Nursing
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children (people by age group)
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MEDICAL -- Gynecology & Obstetrics.
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Children
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Emergency nursing
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Pediatric nursing
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
McEwing, Gillian
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Richardson, Jim, 1957-
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Glasper, Edward Alan
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| ISBN |
9780191622106 |
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0191622109 |
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9780191620881 |
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0191620882 |
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