Download or read book Rapid Access Guide for Pediatric Emergencies written by Deb Jeffries, MSN-Ed, RN, CEN, CPEN, TCRN and published by Springer Publishing Company. This book was released on 2021-05-28 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Delineates essential pediatric knowledge and skills that will greatly enhance nursing orientation and ongoing education This pocket-sized resource for nurses confronting pediatric emergencies provides immediate access to vital, life-saving information. Ideal for a variety of settings, this guide distills the wisdom of expert pediatric emergency clinicians who provide a wealth of critical information from basic foundational knowledge through red flag presentations and triage. After describing how to best incorporate the guide into practice, the book conveys important contextual information about pediatric developmental stages, anatomy and physiology, and how to communicate effectively with patients and caregivers. This essential resource provides comprehensive triage content; a combination of concept-based learning, disease pathology, and recognition according to body system; and psychosocial considerations. Additionally, behavioral health issues, congenital cardiac anomalies, and children with unique needs, along with assessments, interventions, critical medications, and selected components of resuscitation are covered. This text provides emergency, urgent care, clinic, school nurses and others, both experienced and inexperienced, with a pocket reference when caring for the pediatric patient. A quick-reference section highlights emergency pediatric procedures and medication administration for at-a-glance information. Chapters contain space for taking notes, inscribing important phone numbers, or pasting facility-specific policies and procedures. Key Features: Concise, pocket-sized, immediate-access format Useful for emergency, urgent care, clinic, school, detention center, summer camp settings, and others Utilizes a systematic evidence-based approach for the triage, assessment, and identification of appropriate interventions for a variety of clinical presentations Describes nursing pearls and critical concepts of pediatric emergency care Addresses typical vs. atypical patient presentations Provides step-by-step information for pediatric procedures Addresses anatomic and physiologic age-specific considerations applicable to each disease pathology or injury Icons are used throughout the book to quickly direct the user to specific content areas Contains blank note pages for customization

Download or read book Rapid Access Guide for Pediatric Emergencies written by Deb Jeffries and published by . This book was released on 2021-06-28 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Delineates essential pediatric knowledge and skills that will greatly enhance nursing orientation and ongoing education This pocket-sized resource for nurses confronting pediatric emergencies provides immediate access to vital, life-saving information. Ideal for a variety of settings, this guide distills the wisdom of expert pediatric emergency clinicians who provide a wealth of critical information from basic foundational knowledge through red flag presentations and triage. After describing how to best incorporate the guide into practice, the book conveys important contextual information about pediatric developmental stages, anatomy and physiology, and how to communicate effectively with patients and caregivers. This essential resource provides comprehensive triage content; a combination of concept-based learning, disease pathology, and recognition according to body system; and psychosocial considerations. Additionally, behavioral health issues, congenital cardiac anomalies, and children with unique needs, along with assessments, interventions, critical medications, and selected components of resuscitation are covered. This text provides emergency, urgent care, clinic, school nurses and others, both experienced and inexperienced, with a pocket reference when caring for the pediatric patient. A quick-reference section highlights emergency pediatric procedures and medication administration for at-a-glance information. Chapters contain space for taking notes, inscribing important phone numbers, or pasting facility-specific policies and procedures. Key Features: Concise, pocket-sized, immediate-access format Useful for emergency, urgent care, clinic, school, detention center, summer camp settings, and others Utilizes a systematic evidence-based approach for the triage, assessment, and identification of appropriate interventions for a variety of clinical presentations Describes nursing pearls and critical concepts of pediatric emergency care Addresses typical vs. atypical patient presentations Provides step-by-step information for pediatric procedures Addresses anatomic and physiologic age-specific considerations applicable to each disease pathology or injury Icons are used throughout the book to quickly direct the user to specific content areas Contains blank note pages for customization

Download or read book Rapid Access Guide for Triage and Emergency Nurses written by Lynn Sayre Visser, MSN, RN, PHN, CEN, CPEN, FAEN and published by Springer Publishing Company. This book was released on 2018-07-30 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the award-winning authors of Fast Facts for the Triage Nurse! The vital information you need to quickly identify acutely ill or injured patients. Rapid Access Guide for Triage and Emergency Nurses: Chief Complaints With High-Risk Presentations is the first pocket-sized clinical manual focusing on patient-driven chief complaints. Designed to assist in rapidly recognizing potential life-threatening or life-altering conditions, this guide can be used in a variety of healthcare settings. Content covers each body system and its most common chief complaints along with first-line questions, assessments, and interventions to prompt the user. Red flag findings, easily identified by the flag icon, denote critical signs and symptoms, while a light bulb icon helps the user locate key tips. The guide includes evidence-based practice guidelines, reference tables, and checklists for at-a-glance retrieval of information. Most chapters contain space for taking notes, inscribing important phone numbers, or pasting facility specific policies and procedures. Key Features: Common chief complaints with essential tips Unique patient presentations Triage processes, clinical red flags, screening tools Pediatric and older adult considerations Disaster response Active shooter or violent situation action steps

Download or read book Quick Hits for Pediatric Emergency Medicine written by Cristina M. Zeretzke-Bien and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-11-29 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book covers essential information necessary in diagnosing and treating pediatric patients in the emergency room. Emergencies require quick and precise decision making that does not allow for extended reading or fact-checking to ensure all factors are considered. This pocket guide addresses that need by placing vital clinical management and algorithms into a quick and simple guidebook that can be accessed within moments from a scrub pocket or white coat. It is an easy, quick access reference that can be used for those facts that are absolutely essential, but are often difficult to remember. Color images and flow charts allow doctors to grasp the essentials quickly, while more detailed explanations are included alongside for trainees. Quick Hits for Pediatric Emergency Medicine uses tips, caveats, drug dosing, and pearls to assist the provider who may not be familiar with all of the unique nuances of the pediatric population. This is ideal for emergency department physicians, nurses, and trainees including students, residents, and fellows.

Download or read book RAPID Pediatric Emergency Care Revised Edition written by Barbara Aehlert and published by Jones & Bartlett Publishers. This book was released on 2006-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents 2005 emergency cardiovascular care guidelines. This title provides quick facts about pediatric emergency care that are vital to the clinical setting. It incorporates both prehospital and hospital management of pediatric emergencies.

Download or read book Pediatric Emergency Medicine written by Jill M. Baren and published by Elsevier Health Sciences. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 1352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This authoritative reference equips you with the essential knowledge to provide comprehensive and effective care to children in an emergency setting. From age-specific diagnoses and chief complaints through developmental considerations and psychosocial issues, this text guides you through the full range of medical and surgical conditions commonly encountered when treating pediatric emergencies. The use of full color throughout, diagnostic algorithms, text boxes, charts, clinical pearls and pitfalls, and other visual features ensure the book will make crucial clinical information easy to find and apply. Tap into expert guidance on all aspects of pediatric emergency medicine, from the physical exam and usual and unusual presentations through to disposition criteria and transfer issues. Access step-by-step guidance on administering critical life support interventions and providing effective diagnostic and therapeutic ambulatory care. Quickly review specific treatment protocols for various emergency settings, including general emergency departments, community hospitals, tertiary care centers, EMS and transport, and triage. Find information fast with or without a known diagnosis, with content organized both by chief complaints and by specific diagnoses. Better understand how problems present differently in infants, children, and adolescents with age-specific diagnoses. Identify and manage the psychosocial issues surrounding pediatric patients, including major depression and suicidality, sexual and physical abuse, child neglect, and violence. Easily absorb key information with the aid of text boxes, algorithms, clinical pearls, and pitfalls. Retrieve information easily with a consistent templated format.

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Download or read book Rapid Access Guide for Triage and Emergency Nurses written by Lynn Sayre Visser and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the award-winning authors of Fast Facts for the Triage Nurse The vital information you need to quickly identify acutely ill or injured patients. Rapid Access Guide for Triage and Emergency Nurses: Chief Complaints With High-Risk Presentations is the first pocket-sized clinical manual focusing on patient-driven chief complaints. Designed to assist in rapidly recognizing potential life-threatening or life-altering conditions, this guide can be used in a variety of healthcare settings. Content covers each body system and its most common chief complaints along with first-line questions, assessments, and interventions to prompt the user. Red flag findings, easily identified by the flag icon, denote critical signs and symptoms, while a light bulb icon helps the user locate key tips. The guide includes evidence-based practice guidelines, reference tables, and checklists for at-a-glance retrieval of information. Most chapters contain space for taking notes, inscribing important phone numbers, or pasting facility specific policies and procedures. Key Features: Common chief complaints with essential tips Unique patient presentations Triage processes, clinical red flags, screening tools Pediatric and older adult considerations Disaster response Active shooter or violent situation action steps

Download or read book Pediatric Emergencies written by Emily Rose and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-08-18 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pediatric Emergencies comprehensively covers the practical management of pediatric emergencies based on organ systems, with a strong emphasis on clinical relevance. Each chapter explores the background, classic clinical presentation, atypical clinical presentation, differential diagnosis, diagnostic confirmation, treatment, clinical algorithm, disposition, complications, and pitfalls of each topic. Clinical pearls included in each chapter can be used at the bedside, and case examples allow readers to compare and contrast pediatric complaints to adult presentations. More clinically focused than a traditional textbook, and more comprehensive than a typical clinical guide, Pediatric Emergencies is an ideal resource for emergency providers of various backgrounds and training, including emergency physicians, emergency medicine residents, pediatric emergency medicine fellows, pediatricians, and other primary care providers who work in urgent care settings.

Download or read book Core Curriculum for Pediatric Emergency Nursing written by Bruce Herman and published by Jones & Bartlett Learning. This book was released on 2003 with total page 654 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique text serves as the foundation for pediatric emergency nursing practice and also addresses pediatric trauma care.

Download or read book Rapid Access Guide for Triage and Emergency Nurses written by Lynn Sayre Visser, MSN, RN, PHN, CEN, CPEN, FAEN and published by Springer Publishing Company. This book was released on 2023-05-08 with total page 489 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides critical information to help healthcare providers ensure patient safety by preventing "misses" or "near-misses" Newly updated, this life-saving pocket-sized clinical manual guides triage nurses to rapidly recognize life-threatening or life-altering conditions. The second edition delivers new chapters on endocrine emergencies, hematologic and oncologic emergencies, sexual assault and intimate partner violence, and human trafficking. Pediatric and older adult chapters offer extensive new information on assessment, triage pearls, and key tips for age-related emergencies. Also included is updated STEMI, Stroke, and Sepsis guidelines. Focusing on patient-driven chief complaints, this resource provides a wealth of concise information covering each body system along with first-line questions, assessments, and interventions to determine the patient's level of urgency, sick versus not sick. Prominent icons denote critical signs and symptoms and deliver invaluable information from experienced triage/ED nurses. Content encompasses triage, waiting room and legal issues, high-risk medical conditions, and special issues in emergency care. Including action steps to aid in prioritizing during a crisis, the resource covers trauma, burns, active shooter/active threat, and emergency management during a disaster. Reference tables and checklists facilitate at-a-glance retrieval of crucial information. Opportunities for customization include space for taking notes, inscribing important phone numbers, and pasting facility-specific policies/procedures. New to the Second Edition: New chapters addressing endocrine emergencies, hematologic and oncologic emergencies, sexual assault and intimate partner violence, and human trafficking Expanded content in the triage, pediatric, and older adult chapters Enhanced red flags, triage considerations, and key tips, along with updates to the screening tools Reformatted and condensed chief complaint layout throughout the book to increase accessibility of information Worst-case scenarios to consider throughout each body system chapter Access to the Pediatric Assessment Triangle and pediatric vital signs and detailed information for performing the A-B-C-D-E assessment Key Features: Expedites critical decision-making with quick access to key reference material Delivers information honed from decades of combined emergency nursing experience Uses icons to quickly direct the user to relevant content areas Enhances clinical judgment with essential tips regarding common chief complaints Sheds light on complex issues with unique patient presentations Highlights key pediatric and older-adult considerations Covers disaster response and active shooter/violent situation action steps

Download or read book RAPID Pediatric Emergency Care Revised Reprint CD ROM PDA Software Powered by Skyscape written by Barbara Aehlert and published by Jems Publishing Company. This book was released on 2007-03-09 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Get quick and easy access to essential facts and clinical information for pediatric emergencies - at the tap of a stylus! RAPID Pediatric Emergency Care, Revised Edition - CD-ROM PDA Software contains the full contents of the pocket reference, for instant access on your PDA anywhere you need it. Powered by Skyscape, this software offers extensive cross-linking and search capabilities that let you find and use the information the way that works best for you. Access important pediatric emergency information in charts, algorithms, guidelines, procedures, and tables. Discover many helpful illustrations and the handy alphabetical listing of commonly used medications. Sections include growth & development, patient assessment, respiratory conditions, cardiac conditions, fluids & medications, trauma & burns, selected conditions, abuse & death, special needs, and the newly born. PDA Software Powered by Skyscape lets you quickly find the information you need and use it the way you want: Use integrated cross-reference linking to connect instantly with all other Skyscape titles on your PDA. Move within topics with a single touch using smARTabsT. Customize how you want information displayed. Take notes when and where you need to with the annotation function. Use this software on both Palm OS® handhelds and Pocket PC/Windows® CE operating systems.

Download or read book The Hospital for Sick Children Handbook of Pediatric Emergency Medicine written by Hospital for Sick Children and published by Jones & Bartlett Learning. This book was released on 2008 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by top pediatricians from the world-famous Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, Canada, this handbook encapsulates 68 chapters covering assessment and management of emergency pediatric illness and injury. This book will allow the reader to rapidly access key topics in emergency medicine, with up-to-date evidence based management. This Handbook is intended as a tool that can be used at the bedside, covering both resuscitation and major medical emergencies, surgical problems, and minor procedures in the emergency setting.

Download or read book Handbook of Pediatric Emergencies written by Gregory A. Baldwin and published by Lippincott Raven. This book was released on 2001 with total page 740 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now in its thoroughly updated Third Edition, this pocket-sized handbook is a practical, accessible guide to the management of common pediatric emergencies. The book is designed for rapid, on-the-spot reference in the emergency room. Numerous illustrations show how to perform specific procedures, lists of Key Points appear at the end of each chapter, and an Appendix contains extensive tables of drug dosages. This edition includes more detailed information on pain assessment and management, conscious sedation, viral illnesses, and streptococcal necrotizing fasciitis.

Download or read book Fleisher Ludwig s Textbook of Pediatric Emergency Medicine written by Richard G. Bachur and published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. This book was released on 2015-11-11 with total page 1552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before the 1st edition of the Textbook of Pediatric Emergency Medicine published, there was no official pediatric emergency medicine subspecialty in either pediatrics or emergency medicine. This book defined many of the treatments, testing modalities procedural techniques and approaches to care for the ill and injured child. As such, it was written with both the pediatrician and the emergency physician in mind. The Textbook of Pediatric Emergency Medicine, has an entirely new editorial board and templated chapters focusing on evidence-based diagnosis and management of pediatric patients in the ED. The book’s content has been rewritten to eliminate and eliminate redundancy, creating succinct sections that pertain to patient care in the ED. Templated chapters include: Clinical Outcomes/Goals of Therapy Current Evidence Clinical Considerations Clinical Recognition: Triage Initial Assessment Management/Diagnostic Testing Clinical indications for discharge or admission, including parental instructions References In the ED, nurses and physicians work closely as a paired team, thus this edition reflects that partnership and offers content tailored to it. Online ancillaries, found in the bundled eBook, include Learning Links for nursing considerations and clinical pathways that outline the key steps to take when managing critically ill patients.

Download or read book Pediatric Emergency Nursing written by Susan J. Kelley and published by McGraw-Hill/Appleton & Lange. This book was released on 1994 with total page 602 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This reference has been updated and expanded to include current information in the field of emergency nursing care of children. Each chapter provides a comprehensive approach to nursing care of the child and family, organized within the nursing process framework. Extensive use of tables and illustrations should enhance the reader's understanding of disease processes, mechanisms of injury and nursing interventions. Appendices include teaching instructions for parents for select injuries and illnesses, normal paediatric laboratory values, growth charts and recommended immunization schedules.

Download or read book Textbook of Pediatric Emergency Procedures written by Christopher King and published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. This book was released on 2008 with total page 1352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Widely acclaimed for its outstanding step-by-step illustrations, comprehensive coverage, and reader-friendly format, Textbook of Pediatric Emergency Procedures is now in its thoroughly updated Second Edition. In 137 chapters, the book provides clear, complete instructions on every emergency medicine procedure performed on infants, children, and adolescents. More than 1,000 detailed drawings, most in two-color, show how to perform each procedure. This edition includes a new chapter on new technologies and techniques for managing the difficult airway. Other new topics include use of tissue adhesives in laceration repair, focused abdominal sonography for trauma (FAST), management of priapism, reimplanting an avulsed permanent tooth, use of automatic external defibrillators, and procedures related to bioterrorism.