Initial management of acute medical patients : a guide for nurses and healthcare practitioners /

Initial management of acute medical patients : a guide for nurses and healthcare practitioners / edited by Ian Wood and Michelle Garner. - United Kingdom : Wiley-Blackwell, c2012 - 310 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Initial assessment of the acute medical patient -- Vulnerable adults -- Sudden death -- Cardiac arrest -- Shock -- Altered consciousness -- Shortness of breath -- Chest pain -- Abdominal pain and upper gastrointestinal bleeding -- Extremity pain and swelling.

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CRITICAL CARE -- METHODS

RT 120.I5 .In55 2012