Sheehy's manual of emergency care

I. Basic Emergency Issues

1. Legal Issues for Emergency Nurses

2. Workplace Violence and Disruptive Behavior / Polly Gerber Zimmermann

3. Mass Casualty Incidents / Sharon Saunderson Cohen

4. Patient Safety in the Emergency Department / Susan McDaniel Hohenhaus

5. Ethical Dilemmas in Emergency Nursing / Bernard Heilicser

6. Forensics / Jeanne Eckes-Roper

II. Basic Clinical Issues

7. Triage / Nicki Gilboy

8. Airway Management / Julie V. O'Neal

9. Cardiopulmonary Arrest / Belinda B. Hammond

10. Intravenous Therapy / Lynn Hadaway

11. Care of the Patient with Pain / Diana Meyer

12. Substance Abuse / Leona Stout-Demps / Darken A. Williams

13. Alcohol Abuse / Dawn M. Williamson

14. Wound Management / Robert D. Hen

15. Procedural Sedation / Lauren Wheatley McCaidey

16. Laboratory Specimens / Linda K. Cook / Polly Gerber Zimmermann

17. End-of-Life Issues for Emergency Nurses / Tina D. Cronin

III. Common Non-Traumatic Emergencies

18. Respiratory Emergencies / Robin Walsh

19. Cardiovascular Emergencies / Belinda B. Hammond

20. Shock / Shelley A. Calder

21. Sepsis / Bethany Chimento Jennings / Fiona Winterbottom

22. Infectious Diseases / William R. Short / Mary Kemper / Jeane Jackson

23. Hematologic and Immunologic Emergencies / C.J. Carringer / Belinda B. Hammond

24. Stroke / Rita D. Mintmier / Sharon L. Biby

25. Neurologic Emergencies / Robin Walsh

26. Facial, ENT, and Dental Emergencies / Darcy Egging

27. Ocular Emergencies / Darcy Egging

28. Abdominal Pain and Emergencies / Lisa Wolf / Polly Gerber Zimmermann

29. Metabolic Emergencies / Benjamin E. Marett

30. Toxicologic Emergencies / Randal Bryan Badillo / Kimberly Hovseth / Scott Schaffer

31. Environmental Emergencies / S. Kay Sedlak

32. Bite and Sting Emergencies / S. Kay Sedlack

33. Genitourinary Emergencies / Susanne Quallich

34. Sexually Transmitted Infections / Darcy Egging

IV. Tramua

35. Assessment and Stabilization of the Trauma Patient / Jeff Solheim

36. Head Trauma / Jill C. McLaughlin

37. Spinal Cord and Neck Trauma / Faye P. Everson

38. Chest Trauma / Faye P. Everson

39. Abdominal Trauma / Catherine Harris

40. Musculoskeletal Trauma / Judith S. Halpern

41. Facial, Ocular, ENT, and Dental Trauma / Jeff Solheim

42. Burns / Kathleen A. Ribbens / Megan DeVries

43. Obstetric Trauma / Laura M. Criddle

44. Pediatric Trauma / Diana Ropele

45. Geriatric Trauma / Laura M. Criddle

V. Special Populations

46. Obstetric Emergencies / Judith H. Poole / Joanne E. Thompson

47. Gynecologic Emergencies / Linda Kelly

48. Mental Health Emergencies / Anne P. Manton

49. Abuse and Neglect / Shelley Cohen

50. Intimate Partner Violence / Shelley Cohen

51. Sexual Assault / Barbara Weintraub

52. Pediatric Considerations in Emergency Nursing / Colleen Andreoni

53. Geriatric Considerations in Emergency Nursing / Karen L. Rice / Maria Albright

54. Considerations for the Patient with Morbid Obesity / Maria E. Albright / Valerie Aarne Grossman

Index.

1. Communications in the emergency department / Mary Jagim

2. Diversity / Anita Ruiz-Contreras

3. Basic legal issues for emergency nurses / Kimberly P. Johnson

4. Intrafacility and interfacility patient transport / Katy Hadduck

5. Emergency preparedness : managing mass casualty incidents / Jeff Hamilton

6. Triage / Nicki Gilboy

7. Patient assessment / Diano Lombardo

8. Intravenous therapy / Jessie M. Moore

9. Laboratory specimens / Nancy M. Bonalumi

10. Rhythm recognition and electrocardiogram interpretation / Nancy M. Ballard

11. Hemodynamic monitoring / Darcy T. Barrett

12. Wound management / Robert Herr

13. Weapons of mass destruction / Jeff Hamilton

14. Pain management / Anita Johnson

15. End-of-life issues for emergency nurses / Kay McClain

16. Organ and tissue donation / Diana Lombardo

17. Complementary and alternative therapies / Renee Semonin Holleran

18. Cardiopulmonary arrest / Donna S. Gloe

19. Airway management / Gretta J. Edwards

20. Respiratory emergencies / Gretta J. Edwards

21. Cardiac emergencies / Donna S. Gloe

22. Shock / Cheri Kommor

23. Neurologic emergencies / Kathy M. Dolan

24. Abdominal pain / Anita Johnson and Terri Roberts

25. Hematologic and immunologic emergencies / Christopher E. Schmidt and Jeffrey S. Johnson

26. Metabolic emergencies / Lisa M. Pruner

27. Alcohol emergencies / Gwen Barnett

28. Toxicologic emergencies / Tammy Gentry

29. Environmental emergencies / Nancy J. Denke

30. Genitourinary emergencies / Louise LeBlanc

31. Infectious diseases / Patricia M. Campbell

32. Allergies and hypersensitivity / Faye P. Everson

33. Facial, ocular, ENT, and dental emergencies / Anne Marie E. Lewis

34. Assessment of the trauma patient / Andrew A. Galvin

35. Head trauma / Laura M. Criddle

36. Spinal cord and neck trauma / John Fazio

37. Chest trauma / Christopher Schmidt

38. Abdominal trauma / Dennis B. MacDougall

39. Musculoskeletal emergencies / Chris M. Gisness

40. Facial, ocular, ENT, and dental trauma / Anne Marie E. Lewis

41. Burns / Janice R. Sisco

42. Obstetric trauma / Mara S. Kerr

43. Pediatric trauma / Jeff Solheim

44. Geriatric trauma / Andrea Novak

45. Obstetric and gynecologic emergencies / M. Lynn Herman

46. Pediatric emergencies / Colleen Andreoni

47. Abuse and neglect / Patricia L. Clutter

48. Mental health emergencies / Jule Blakeley Monnens

49. Substance abuse / Donna Mason

50. Intimate partner violence / Susan Rolniak and Elizabeth Burke

51. Sexual assault / Anita Johnson.