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Trauma Care

Name: Trauma Care
ISBN: 9781444309522

Initial Assessment and Management in the Emergency Department

Elaine Cole,

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eBook - PDF

Trauma Care

Initial Assessment and Management in the Emergency Department

Elaine Cole,

About this book

The often complex problems of the trauma patient present many challenges to front line emergency staff. Multiple injuries involving many systems of the body require careful and timely prioritisation and intervention in the emergency department. Trauma Care provides emergency nurses with a practical guide to the systematic assessment and management of trauma patients, equipping them with the clinical knowledge and practical skills necessary to initially assess and care for the trauma patient in the emergency department trauma environment.

Trauma Care explores the concept of trauma assessment, focusing on patient priorities and interprofessional trauma team working. Individual chapters look at the essential assessment and management issues for each system of the body and specific age related complications. Emphasis is placed on key patient priorities, with acknowledgement to the common pitfalls in initial trauma care. This text will be essential for all emergency nurses, and those working in the emergency department.

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eBook ISBN

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Topic

Medicine

Subtopic

Nursing

1

INTRODUCTION

Information 

about 

the

Mechanism 

of

Injury 

(MOI) 

can

help 

identify 

up

to

90%

of

a

patient’s 

injuries

1

and

give 

the

trauma 

team 

an

accurate 

picture 

of

what 

injuries 

the

patient 

may

have 

sustained. 

For

the

traumatised 

patient, 

the

importance 

of

such 

knowledge 

cannot 

be

underestimated, 

as

an

accurate 

MOI

can

reduce 

morbidity 

and

mortality.

Information 

about 

the

MOI

can

be

gained 

from 

the

patient 

where 

appropriate, 

from 

witnesses 

or

from 

the

Emergency 

Services. 

However 

although 

determining 

the

MOI

is

an

inte-

gral 

part 

of

the

initial 

patient 

assessment, 

if

the

information 

is

not

available 

this 

should 

never 

delay 

the

primary 

survey 

and

the

detection 

of

life-threatening 

injuries.

The

aim

of

this 

chapter 

is

to

identify 

the

common 

MOIs 

that 

cause 

traumatic 

injury 

and

how

knowledge 

of

this 

can

assist 

in

the

assessment 

and

resuscitation 

of

the

trauma 

patient.

LEARNING 

OBJECTIVES

At

the

end

of

this 

chapter 

the

reader 

will 

be

able 

to:

❏

Understand 

the

principles 

of

energy 

transmission

❏

Understand 

the

difference 

between 

blunt, 

penetrating 

and

blast 

trauma

❏

Demonstrate 

how

to

relate 

speciﬁc 

MOIs 

to

certain 

injury 

patterns

❏

Understand 

the

importance 

of

MOI

in

the

assessment, 

management 

and

ongoing 

evaluation 

of

the

trauma 

patient

❏

Identify 

trauma 

scoring 

systems.

1

Mechanism 

of

Injury

Tanya 

Middlehurst

Contents
Contributors
Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgements
1: Mechanism of Injury
2: Initial Assessment and Resuscitation of the Trauma Patient
3: Head Injuries
4: Thoracic Trauma
5: Spinal Injuries
6: Abdominal Injuries
7: Pelvic Injuries
8: Extremity Trauma
9: Burns
10: Paediatric Trauma
11: Trauma in Older People
12: Trauma in Pregnancy
13: Trauma-related Deaths
Index

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