The Unofficial Guide to Practical Skills.
Hotton, Emily.
The Unofficial Guide to Practical Skills. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (213 pages) - Unofficial Guides to Medicine . - Unofficial Guides to Medicine .
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Introduction -- Foreword -- How to Use This Book -- Abbreviations and Symbols -- Contributors -- Contents -- 1. Basic Patient Assesments -- 1.1 Heart Rate and Respiratory Rate -- 1.2 Oxygen Saturation -- 1.3 Blood Pressure -- 1.4 Lying and Standing Blood Pressure -- 1.5 Ankle Brachial Pressure Index -- 1.6 Blood Glucose -- 1.7 MRSA Swab -- 1.8 Body Mass Index -- 1.9 Nutritional Assessment -- 2. Blood Tests -- 2.1 Phlebotomy -- 2.2 Blood Cultures -- 2.3 Arterial Blood Gas -- 2.4 Blood Gas Interpretation -- 3. Acute Patient Management -- 3.1 Immediate Life Support -- 3.2 Choking -- 3.3 Sizing and Fitting a Hard Collar -- 3.4 Airway Management -- 3.5 Administering Oxygen -- 3.6 Intravenous Cannulation -- 3.7 Setting up a Giving Set -- 3.8 Blood Transfusion -- 3.9 ECGs -- 3.10 Fundoscopy -- 3.11 Otoscopy -- 3.12 Central Venous Lines -- 4. Medication Administration -- 4.1 Intramuscular Injections -- 4.2 Subcutaneous Injections -- 4.3 Intradermal Injections -- 4.4 Local Anaesthetic Administration -- 4.5 Intravenous Drugs -- 4.6 Drug Administration via Nebuliser -- 4.7 Operating a Syringe Driver -- 5. Medicine and Surgery -- 5.1 Simple Dressing Change -- 5.2 Spirometry -- 5.3 Knee Joint Aspiration -- 5.4 Nasogastric Tube Insertion -- 5.5 Diagnostic Pleural Tap -- 5.6 Chest Drain -- 5.7 Diagnostic Ascitic Tap -- 5.8 Therapeutic Paracentesis -- 5.9 Lumbar Puncture -- 5.10 Proctoscopy -- 5.11 Instruments -- 5.12 Suturing -- 5.13 Surgical Gowning and Gloving -- 6. Urology -- 6.1 Urinalysis -- 6.2 Male Urethral Catheterisation -- 6.3 Female Urethral Catheterisation -- 6.4 Suprapubic Catheterisation -- 7. Paediatrics -- 7.1 Peak Flow -- 7.2 Inhaler Technique -- 7.3 Preparing Baby Formula Milk -- 8. General Skills -- 8.1 Hand Washing -- 8.2 Infection Control -- 8.3 Manual Handling -- 8.4 Death Certification.
9781910399064
Clinical medicine--Problems, exercises, etc.
Electronic books.
RC58.H688 2014
610.76
The Unofficial Guide to Practical Skills. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (213 pages) - Unofficial Guides to Medicine . - Unofficial Guides to Medicine .
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Introduction -- Foreword -- How to Use This Book -- Abbreviations and Symbols -- Contributors -- Contents -- 1. Basic Patient Assesments -- 1.1 Heart Rate and Respiratory Rate -- 1.2 Oxygen Saturation -- 1.3 Blood Pressure -- 1.4 Lying and Standing Blood Pressure -- 1.5 Ankle Brachial Pressure Index -- 1.6 Blood Glucose -- 1.7 MRSA Swab -- 1.8 Body Mass Index -- 1.9 Nutritional Assessment -- 2. Blood Tests -- 2.1 Phlebotomy -- 2.2 Blood Cultures -- 2.3 Arterial Blood Gas -- 2.4 Blood Gas Interpretation -- 3. Acute Patient Management -- 3.1 Immediate Life Support -- 3.2 Choking -- 3.3 Sizing and Fitting a Hard Collar -- 3.4 Airway Management -- 3.5 Administering Oxygen -- 3.6 Intravenous Cannulation -- 3.7 Setting up a Giving Set -- 3.8 Blood Transfusion -- 3.9 ECGs -- 3.10 Fundoscopy -- 3.11 Otoscopy -- 3.12 Central Venous Lines -- 4. Medication Administration -- 4.1 Intramuscular Injections -- 4.2 Subcutaneous Injections -- 4.3 Intradermal Injections -- 4.4 Local Anaesthetic Administration -- 4.5 Intravenous Drugs -- 4.6 Drug Administration via Nebuliser -- 4.7 Operating a Syringe Driver -- 5. Medicine and Surgery -- 5.1 Simple Dressing Change -- 5.2 Spirometry -- 5.3 Knee Joint Aspiration -- 5.4 Nasogastric Tube Insertion -- 5.5 Diagnostic Pleural Tap -- 5.6 Chest Drain -- 5.7 Diagnostic Ascitic Tap -- 5.8 Therapeutic Paracentesis -- 5.9 Lumbar Puncture -- 5.10 Proctoscopy -- 5.11 Instruments -- 5.12 Suturing -- 5.13 Surgical Gowning and Gloving -- 6. Urology -- 6.1 Urinalysis -- 6.2 Male Urethral Catheterisation -- 6.3 Female Urethral Catheterisation -- 6.4 Suprapubic Catheterisation -- 7. Paediatrics -- 7.1 Peak Flow -- 7.2 Inhaler Technique -- 7.3 Preparing Baby Formula Milk -- 8. General Skills -- 8.1 Hand Washing -- 8.2 Infection Control -- 8.3 Manual Handling -- 8.4 Death Certification.
9781910399064
Clinical medicine--Problems, exercises, etc.
Electronic books.
RC58.H688 2014
610.76