Detection and Management of Acute Drug Poisoning

ISBN-13: 9783659708626 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 96 str.

Youssef Warda;El Sayed Yahia;Elfeky Hanaa

Opis

Acute drug poisoning is one of the life threatening conditions. Detection and management of poisoning constitutes a core emergency nursing competency. Nurses knowledge and practice play important roles in provision of supportive care to decrease morbidity and mortality secondary to poisonings.Poisoning requires a multi-disciplinary team to manage a set of issues ranging from prevention of poisonings in the home to support critically ill poisoned patients in the emergency and intensive care units.

O autorze

B.sc Nursing, M.sc Critical Care & Emergency Nursing. Assistant Lecturer at Critical Care & Emergency Nursing Department - Faculty of Nursing - Cairo University.