Author: LASTMachester Triage Group
Publisher: BMJ Books
Keywords: triage, emergency
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 2001-08-15
List price: $37.95
ISBN-10: 0727915428
ISBN-13: 9780727915429

The Manchester Triage System (MTS) is the most widely used triage system in the UK, Europe and Australia, with tens of millions of patients being processed through hospital emergency departments. Emergency Triage is the core text for the MTS which utilises a risk averse system of prioritisation for patients in all unscheduled care settings, and as such it is an essential text for all emergency department staff using the MTS, in particular triage nurses themselves. The second edition has been revised throughout and takes in the changes in practice introduced into MTS since the book wa

Author: William Walling
Publisher: Virtualbookworm.com Publishing
Keywords: triage
Number of Pages: 252
Published: 2003-02
List price: $13.95
ISBN-10: 1589393414
ISBN-13: 9781589393417

Be fruitful, advocates Judeo-Christian Scripture, and multiply, and replenish the earth. Historical demographics reveal how diligently we’ve complied with this "Eleventh Commandment." Eight millennia before the Savior’s birth, global population is inferred to have been roughly five millions. When Julius Caesar fell to the daggers of envious men, the estimate jumps to approximately two hundred and fifty millions, then escalates in the mid-seventeenth century to half a billion. By 1850 it reached one billion, and circa 1930?less than a century later?some two billion humans lived out

Author: Scott Anderson
Publisher: Scribner
Keywords: novel, triage
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 1999-11-23
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 0684856530
ISBN-13: 9780684856537

In this critically acclaimed debut novel, the aftermath of war in all its power is revealed in the lives of survivors and their loved ones. Mark, a young war photographer, returns to New York after being injured in a brush fire. Shell-shocked, torn apart by grief and guilt, he finds that his experiences have created a gulf between himself and his loved ones. The first to notice is his girlfriend, Elena, who grows increasingly alarmed as his condition continues to deteriorate. She is the most surprised when her grandfather, Joaquin, the last person from whom Elena wants to accept help, turns o

Author: Valerie G.A. Grossman
Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
Keywords: triage, reference, quick
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2003-04-04
List price: $39.95
ISBN-10: 0781740223
ISBN-13: 9780781740227

This user-friendly, quick-access manual provides full-range coverage of the triage process in emergency care, from fundamental clinical guidance concerning patient assessment and treatment through the leadership skills and organizational skill building required by senior staff and emergency department management personnel. This second edition offers updated features from the first edition, such as alphabetized listings of patient complaints, emergency alerts to help nurses recognize serious conditions quickly, "Pearls of Triage Wisdom" with timely clinical tips, and cross-cultural consideratio

Author: Candace Calvert
Publisher: Tyndale House Publishers
Keywords: hospital, mercy, triage, code
Number of Pages: 384
Published: 2010-09-21
List price: $12.99
ISBN-10: 1414325452
ISBN-13: 9781414325453

Dr. Leigh Stathos likes her ER shifts fast, furious, and adrenaline-infused—“Treat ’em and street ’em”—with no emotional complications. Life’s taught her a soul-rending lesson: nothing lasts forever, including marriage. And the clock is ticking toward the end of hers. Then an unwelcome confrontation with “the other woman” begins a whole new set of lessons. San Francisco police officer Nick Stathos never gives up, whether protecting his patrol neighborhood, holding fast to faith—or trying to save his marriage. Seven days is all he has to reach Leigh’s heart. But when a des

Author: Julie K Briggs
Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
Keywords: nurses, protocols, triage, telephone
Number of Pages: 656
Published: 2006-12-01
List price: $59.95
ISBN-10: 0781764610
ISBN-13: 9780781764612

This quick-reference manual presents over 200 triage protocols for evaluating patients’ symptoms over the telephone. Each symptom entry lists questions, grouped by urgency level, to determine whether the caller should seek emergency care now, seek medical care the same day, call back for appointment, or follow home care instructions. Detailed home care instructions are then provided. This edition features fourteen new protocols: avian influenza ("bird flu"); congestive heart failure; electrical burns; hand/wrist problems; hip pain/injury; influenza; neurological symptoms; newborn problem

Author: Polly Gerber Zimmermann RN MS MBA CENRobert D.
Publisher: Mosby
Keywords: secrets, nursing, triage
Number of Pages: 752
Published: 2005-08-23
List price: $48.95
ISBN-10: 0323031226
ISBN-13: 9780323031226

Part of the Nursing Secrets Series ® and written in a question & answer format, Triage Nursing Secrets begins with an overview of triage nursing and moves to a significant section on symptoms and a final section on issues and competencies. This practical resource is a collection of pearls of wisdom and tricks of the trade to aid effective nurse triage decisions. Content includes guiding principles, objective criteria, mnemonics/memory aids, discriminators, determinants from standardized triage systems and differences between the typical presentation of men vs. women in various conditions