This book provides vital information for emergency and critical care situations, whether youre looking for confidence in handling emergency cases in a first-opinion practice, or a relevant, succinct guide for an emergency clinic.

Table of Contents

• Preface
• 1 Triage and Assessment of the Emergency Patient
• 2 Monitoring the Critical Patient
• 3 Vascular Access
• 4 'Shock' and Intravenous Fluid Therapy
• 5 Blood Gas, Acid–Base Analysis and Electrolyte Abnormalities
• 6 Analgesia and Anaesthesia of the Emergency and Critical Patient
• 7 Practical Laboratory Techniques
• 8 Techniques for Oxygen Supplementation
• 9 Nursing the Dyspnoeic Patient
• 10 Nursing the Cardiac Patient
• 11 Nursing the Acute Abdomen Patient
• 12 Nursing Urinary Tract Emergencies
• 13 Nursing the Poisoned Patient
• 14 Nursing the Trauma Patient
• 15 Nursing the Reproductive Patient
• 16 Small Animal Critical Care and Hospitalised Patient Nutrition
• 17 Nursing the Emergency Ophthalmology Patient
• 18 Cardiopulmonary Arrest and Resuscitation
• 19 Nursing Considerations in the Critical Patient