Emergency and Trauma Care for Nurses and Paramedics 4e

SECTION ONE: OVERVIEW OF EMERGENCY CARE

1. Emergency nursing in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand

2. Paramedicine in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand

3. Clinical ethics for emergency healthcare

4. Emergency care and the law

5. Cultural considerations in emergency care

6. Patient safety and quality in emergency care

7. Research for emergency care

8. Patient and carer engagement and communication

SECTION 2: CLINICAL CONCEPTS AND SYSTEMS

9. Scene assessment, management and rescue

10. Physiology and pathophysiology for emergency care

11. Clinical reasoning, problem-solving and triage

12. Major incident preparedness and management

13. Patient assessment and essentials of care

14. Resuscitation

15. Stabilisation and transfer

16. Clinical skills

17. Minor injury and management

18. Pain management

19. Organ and tissue donation)

20. End of life

SECTION THREE: EMERGENCIES

21: Respiratory emergencies

22. Cardiovascular emergencies

23. Neurological emergencies

24. Gastrointestinal emergencies

25. Renal and genitourinary emergencies

26. Endocrine emergencies

27. Healthcare-associated infections and infectious diseases in emergency care

28. Environmental emergencies

29. Oncological and haematological emergencies

30. Toxicological emergencies

31. Dental, ear, nose and throat emergencies

32. Ocular emergencies and trauma

33. Gynaecological emergencies

34. Maternal emergencies

35. Paediatric emergencies

36. Mental health emergencies

37. People with disabilities

38. The older person

39. Violence, abuse and assault

40. Alcohol, tobacco and other drug use

SECTION FOUR: MAJOR TRAUMA

41. Epidemiology of injury

42. Major trauma initial assessment and management

43. Traumatic brain injury

44. Maxillofacial trauma

45. Thoracic and neck trauma

46. Abdominal and genitourinary trauma

47. Spinal Trauma

48. Major orthopaedic and neurovascular trauma

49. Burns trauma