Trauma Nursing: From Resuscitation Through Rehabilitation, Volume 777Saunders, 2002 - 881 pages 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. -- New chapter on performance improvement in trauma car |
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... Assessment of open wounds is vital in order to evaluate the progress of healing and make decisions regarding therapy . The location , size , and depth of open wounds need to be documented . This can be accomplished with wound tracings ...
... assessment : The greater the magnitude of injury , the greater the risk for developing protein - calorie malnutrition . For example , patients who are not expected to consume food for more than 5 days because of severe traumatic brain ...
... ASSESSMENT Sedation assessment is more difficult and less reproduc- ible than pain assessment for two reasons : ( 1 ) an opti- mal , well - defined state of sedation does not exist ; and ( 2 ) sedation assessment tools have not been ...