1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910456943903321

Autore

Briggs Julie K.

Titolo

Emergency nursing : 5-tier triage protocols / / Julie K. Briggs, Valerie G. A. Grossman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Philadelphia : , : Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, , [2006]

©2006

ISBN

1-4511-6641-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (272 p.)

Disciplina

610.73/6

Soggetti

Emergency nursing

Triage (Medicine)

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Abdominal pain, adult -- Abdominal pain, pediatric -- Alcohol and drug use, abuse, and dependence -- Allergic reaction -- Altered mental status -- Ankle pain and swelling -- Anxiety -- Asthma -- Back pain -- Bee sting -- Bites, animal and human -- Bites, insect and tick -- Bites, marine animal -- Bites, snake -- Body art complications -- Breast problems -- Breathing problems -- Burns -- Chest pain -- Cold exposure, hypothermia/frostbite -- Cold symptoms -- Confusion -- Contusion -- Cough -- Crying baby -- Depression -- Diabetic problems -- Diarrhea, adult -- Diarrhea, pediatric -- Ear problems -- Electric shock/lightning injury -- Extremity injury --

Eye injury and problems -- Feeding tube problems -- Fever -- Finger and toe problems -- Foreign body, ear -- Foreign body, ingestion -- Foreign body, inhaled -- Foreign body, rectum/vagina -- Foreign body, skin -- Genital problems, male -- Headache -- Head injury -- Heart rate, rapid -- Heart rate, slow -- Heat exposure -- Hip pain and swelling -- Hives -- Hypertension -- Itching without a rash -- Jaundice -- Jaundice, newborn -- Knee pain and swelling -- Laceration -- Lightheadedness/fainting -- Menstrual problems -- Motor vehicle accident -- Mouth problems -- Neck pain -- Nosebleed -- Poisoning, exposure or ingestion --

Pregnancy, abdominal pain -- Pregnancy, back pain -- Pregnancy,



vaginal bleeding -- Pregnancy, vaginal discharge -- Pregnancy, vomiting -- Puncture wound -- Rash, adult and pediatric -- Rectal problems -- Seizure -- Seizure, febrile -- Sexual assault -- Shoulder pain -- Sinus pain and congestion -- Sore throat -- Suicidal behavior -- Sunburn -- Toothache/tooth injury -- Urinary catheter problems -- Urination problems -- Vaginal bleeding, abnormal -- Vomiting -- Weakness -- Wound infection -- Wrist pain and swelling.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910456692103321

Titolo

Adapting to climate change in Eastern Europe and Central Asia [[electronic resource] /] / Marianne Fay, Rachel Block, and Jane Ebinger, editors

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, DC, : World Bank, c2010

ISBN

1-282-50210-7

9786612502101

0-8213-8132-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (208 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

BlockRachel I

EbingerJane O

FayMarianne

Disciplina

363.700947

Soggetti

Climatic changes - Government policy - Europe, Eastern

Climatic changes - Government policy - Russia (Federation)

Environmental policy - Europe, Eastern

Environmental policy - Russia (Federation)

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; About the Editors and Authors; Acknowledgments; ECA Countries and Subregions; Executive Summary; Abbreviations; Overview; Figures; 1. A Framework for Developing Adaptation Plans; Tables; Boxes; 2. How ECA's Climate Has Changed and Is Likely to Change Further; Maps; 3. Human Health: The Most Basic Vulnerability; 4. Climate Change Will Make Water and Land Management More



Complex; 5. The Unbuilt Environment: Agriculture and Forestry; 6. The Built Environment: Cities, Water Systems, Energy, and Transport; 7. Protection and Preparation: Disaster Risk Management and Weather Forecasting

ReferencesIndex

Sommario/riassunto

The climate is changing and many Eastern European and Former Soviet Union countries are vulnerable to the consequences. Many countries are facing warmer temperatures, a changing hydrology and more extremes, droughts, floods, heat waves, windstorms, and forest fires. Already the frequency and cost of natural disasters have risen dramatically in the region. And the concentration of greenhouse gases already in the atmosphere guarantees that similar or greater changes are yet to come, even if the world completely stopped emitting carbon dioxide. Now, and at least for the near future, ECA vulnerabi