Full Description
Puts vital, streamlined information at your fingertips to promote lifesaving care
This concise resource delivers the specific knowledge nurses need in their daily practice to care for trauma patients safely and effectively. Fast Facts for Trauma Nursing provides a detailed overview of key trauma-related care issues while distilling critical elements of emergency and trauma care after resuscitation. Organized in a systems-based format, the book stresses evidence-based treatments and nursing interventions for best practice and patient care.
The resource--written by experienced trauma nurse clinicians--focuses on the approach to and care of the trauma patient from arrival to the hospital through discharge. Included is a review of mechanism of injury issues and traumatic injuries, as well as the key elements of primary, secondary, and tertiary surveys. This new resource highlights the unique physiological and psychological needs of the trauma patient while considering how social determinants of health can bear on trauma in individuals. It also focuses on the maintenance of spinal precautions, preventing secondary brain injuries, and monitoring patients for complications of trauma, including acute kidney injury, adult respiratory distress syndrome, compartment syndrome and rhabdomyolysis.. With its clear narrative and easy-to-access design and format, this new book will appeal to all levels of nurses who care for trauma patients along with those studying for specialized trauma certification exams. Purchase includes online access via most mobile devices or computers.
Key Features:
Delivers--in quick-access format--information nurses can put to use immediately
Highlights key trauma care knowledge and its practical applications
Offers key guidelines of what and how to communicate with trauma care providers
Provides an overview of specific requirements for hospitals to maintain trauma center status
Contents
Section I: General Trauma Principles
Chapter 1: Trauma Systems and Trauma Center Preparedness
Chapter 2: Risk Factors for Trauma
Chapter 3: Mechanism of Injury
Section II: Resuscitative Phase of Care
Chapter 4: Primary Survey
Chapter 5: Secondary Survey
Chapter 6: Tertiary Survey
Section III: Nursing Care by System/Injuries
Chapter 7: Neurologic Injuries and Care
Chapter 8: Head, Eyes, Ears, Nose, and Throat Injuries and Care
Chapter 9: Cardiovascular Injuries and Care
Chapter 10: Pulmonary Injuries and Care
Chapter 11: Gastrointestinal Injuries and Care
Chapter 12: Genitourinary and Gynecological Injuries and Care
Chapter 13: Musculoskeletal Injuries and Care
Chapter 14: Integumentary Injuries and Care
Section IV: Post-Resuscitative Phase of Care
Chapter 15: Triage, Admission, and Transfer Criteria
Chapter 16: Best Practices in the Care of Trauma Patients
Section V: Special Populations and Circumstances
Chapter 17: Elderly Trauma Patients
Chapter 18: Pregnant Trauma Patients
Chapter 19: Pediatrics
Chapter 20: Veterans
Chapter 21: Substance use and toxicology
Chapter 22: Disaster Readiness and Response
Section VII: Post Hospitalization
Chapter 23: Discharge and Follow-up
Chapter 24: Trauma Prevention
Section VIII: Answer Key
Chapter 25: Study Question Answers and Rationale
