Medical Assessment Units
The Initial Mangement of Acute Medical Patients
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Beschreibung
Increasing demands on acute hospital resources, together with areduction in the number of available beds, has placed a greateremphasis on the need for rapid and effective assessment of patientsin order to determine their need for hospital adsmission. This hasled to the widespread emergence of the specialist MedicalAssessment Unit (MAU). This timely book provides an up- to-dateguide to the assessment and immediate management of patients withacute medical conditions. It presents a structured approach basedon common presenting features and focuses on the first twenty fourhours of the patient?s stay in hospital. In writing this book, theeditors have been able to draw on their own clinical experiences asa charge nurse in Accident and Emergency nursing and a sister inacute cardiology and respectively.
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John B. Taylor