Emergency and Trauma Care for nurses and paramedics is a highly respected emergency care text for nursing and paramedicine students and clinicians in Australia and New Zealand. Now in its fourth edition, it provides the most up-to-date and comprehensive coverage of the spectrum of emergency and trauma care.

The text spans prehospital and hospital care, enabling students to understand the patient journey and equipping them for their role in a multidisciplinary team. Coverage includes assessment, triage and management of trauma, physiology of emergency care, and the recognition and management of specific body system emergencies, as well as the fundamentals of emergency care such as quality and safety, ethics, leadership, research and patient education.

Fully revised to reflect the dynamic and evolving nature of emergency and trauma care, this book is ideal for students, prehospital care providers, rural, remote and urban emergency and trauma care nurses, and other disaster management clinicians.

Key Features
Endorsed by the College of Emergency Nursing Australasia
Written by internationally recognised clinicians, researchers and leaders in emergency care
Latest evidence-based research and practice across the emergency care continuum
Case studies to consolidate knowledge apply theory to practice Practice tips highlight cultural considerations and communication issues
Aligns to NSQHSS 2e, NMBA and PBA Standards
Includes Elsevier Adaptive Quizzing for Emergency and Trauma Care for Nurses and Paramedics 4e
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Author Information
By Kate Curtis, RN, GradDipCritCare, MNurs(Hons), PhD, FCENA, Professor Emergency and Trauma Care, University of Sydney, NSW, Australia ; Clinical Nurse Consultant Emergency, Illawarra Shoalhaven Local Health District, Illawarra Health and Medical Research Institute, NSW, Australia ; Honorary Professor, Faculty of Science, Medicine and Health, University of Wollongong, NSW, Australia ; Honorary Professorial Fellow, The George Institute for Global Health, Sydney, NSW, Australia; Clair Ramsden, RN, GradCertCardiol, MHealthcareEthics, MHlthServMgt, Associate Professor, University of Technology Sydney, NSW, Australia ; Executive Director Operations, Nepean Blue Mountains Local Health District, NSW, Australia; Ramon Z. Shaban, BSc(Med) BN GradCertInfCon PGDipPH&TM MEd MCommHealthPrac(Hons1) PhD RN FCENA FACN FACIPC CICP-E, Clinical Chair and Professor of Communicable Diseases Control and Infection Prevention, Sydney Institute for Infectious Diseases, Faculty of Medicine and Health, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia; and Chief Infection Control Practitioner and Clinical Chair of Communicable Diseases Control and Infection Prevention, Centre for Population Health, Western Sydney Local Health District, North Parramatta, Australia; and Associate Director, New South Wales Biocontainment Centre, Sydney, Australia; Margaret Fry, RN, NP, BSc(Nurs), MEd, PhD, FCENA, Professor of Nursing, University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia ; Director Research and Practice Development Northern Sydney Local Health District Nursing and Midwifery Directorate, Sydney NSW, Australia ; Adjunct Professor, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia and Bill Lord, BHlthSc(PreHospCare), GradDipCBL, MEd, PhD, Department of Paramedicine, Monash University, Australia

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