TY - BOOK AU - Harrison,Richard AU - Daly,Lynda TI - A nurse's survival guide to acute medical emergencies SN - 9780702076664 (pbk.) : AV - RT120.E4 PY - 2018/// CY - Amsterdam PB - Elsevier KW - Emergency nursing KW - Health and Wellbeing KW - ukslc N1 - Previous edition: 2011 N2 - Are you a nurse, a physician's associate or a medical student in an acute or emergency unit? This is a pocket guide to caring for patients with acute medical conditions. It will help you to care for patients in the first critical 24 hours of admission manage patients using the most up-to-date evidence based approach understand the most common emergency medical conditions and their underlying disease mechanisms handle the patient's assessment, understand the observations and manage their disease easily obtain clear practical advice know what to tell the patient and relatives using jargon-free language access information on SARS, avian influenza and bio-terrorism ER -