Trauma Nursing: From Resuscitation Through Rehabilitation

By Karen A. McQuillan, Mary Beth Flynn Makic, Eileen Whalen

Book Overview

This "classic" in it's field provides detailed instruction on how to respond during all phases in the cycle of trauma care: from resuscitation through the operative, critical, intermediate, and rehabilitation phases. Like the first two editions, this new edition utilizes this unique cycle of trauma framework to describe the science, current issues, trends, and controversies of trauma care. This format offers the reader an easy to follow organization of material describing the patient's therapeutic needs. Three new chapters address performance improvement in trauma care, injury prevention, and prehospital care of the trauma patient. New, relevant material has been added and content updated throughout to reflect current research-based findings. This text will serve as an excellent reference for the novice and experienced trauma nurse practicing in a variety of settings.

- Comprehensive and in-depth coverage of trauma nursing issues.
- The "cycle of trauma" provides the format that defines the issues unique to each phase of care - from the time of injury through the resuscitation, operative, critical, intermediate, and rehabilitation phases of care
- Generously illustrated to clarify difficult issues and present information in a clear, concise manner.
- Unique Patient Populations section reviews the special care considerations and needs of unique patient groups including elderly, pediatric, pregnant, substance abusive, burned, and organ donors.
- Separate chapters address specific issues that effect all patients regardless of their injury (e.g. mechanism of injury, traumatic shock, patient/family psychosocial responses to trauma, pain, wound healing, nutrition).

-- New chapter on performance improvement in trauma car
- New chapter on injury prevention
- New chapter focusing on prehospital care of trauma patient
- All content updated to reflect current research-based findings
- Nearly 100 new illustrations

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0721684416
• ISBN13: 9780721684413
• Release Date: September 2001
• Publisher: Mosby
• Length: 955 Pages
• Weight: 0.04 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 8.5" x 11.0"