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Record Nr.

UNINA9910806263003321

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)

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.