Subject index

I

Antiseptics and wound infection, 79 Astotherm IFT200 blood and infusion warmer, 116 Asthma patients, 139

1 B

Belfast, emergency care in, 167 Blood, spillage, 98 Body fluid, spiilage, 98

C

Cadaveric organ donation, see Transplants Calcutta, A & E in, 217 Change and decision-making in A & E department,

influencing, 20 children

abuse, 223 poison ingestion in young, accidental, 14

Qinical learning environment, A h E as, 92 Consent and the unconscious patient, 17l Contraception, emergency, 111

I

Decision-making in A & E department, change and, intluencing, 20

Disaster(s) Lockerbie, earwitness to, 149 in Singapore, management, 199

Disclosure of information to poke, 108 Donation, organ, and donor cards, see Transplants

Ecstasy, doubts surrounding and responses to, 193 Education matters, 41,92,154,2M

I F

Fluid(s), body, spillage, 98 Fluid warmer

Astotherm 1FI200,116 Level One, 58

Forensic evidence, preservation, 3 Friend, admission of a, 56

I I

India (Calcutta), A & E in, 217 Infection, wound, antiseptics and, 79 Information, disdosure to police, 108 Information resource management in emergency

departments, 73 Injury, see Post-traumatic stress disorder; Trauma

I J

Japan, development of emergency nursing specialists in, 161

I L I

Law, A & E and the, 49,108,17l, 223 Leadership, harmonious, orchestrating team building

for, 227 Learning environment, clinical, A L E as, 92 Legal issues, 49,108,171,223 Level One Fluid Warmer, 58 Lockerbie air disaster, earwitness to, 149

I M I

MDMA, doubts surrounding and responses to, 193 Medico-legal matters, 49, 108,171,223 3,4-Methylenedioxymethamphetamine, doubts

surrounding and responses to, 193 Mini-doctor, nurse practitioner or, 53 Models of nursing in A & E, 41 Morning-after pi& 111 Mountain rescue, 34 Multiple injuries, spinal immobihsation with, 25

N

Non-accidental injury, 223 Nurse practitioner or mini-doctor, 53

0

Organ donation, cadaveric, see Transplants

240 ACCIDENT & EMERGENCY NURSING

Patient% charter, 210 Penetrating trauma in Manchester, 65 Poisoning

self-, 132 young children, accidental, 14

Police, disclosure of information to, 108 Post-coital pill, 111 Post-traumatic stress disorder, prevention, 87

I R

Relative, admission of a, 56

I

1 S I self-poisoning, 132 Shift, personal feelings of nurse during one, 113 Shipping line, A dr E in, 104 Singapore, disaster management, 199 Spinal immobilisation with multiple injuries, 25 Stress, post-traumatic, prevention, 87 Support workers, 203

Author index

I B

Brian, D., 132 Burton, R., 14

C

Castille, K., 65 Chandler, E., 87

D

Davies, s., 125 De Silva, P., 174 Dimond, B., 49, 108,171,223 Dingle, W., 113

I F I

Ferguson, A., 79 Friend, D., 217 Fuller, A., 98 Fincke, M. K., 227

I G

Green, M. A., 3 Grover, L. E. K., 8

T

Team building. orchestrating, for harmonious leadership,

227 trauma, preparation for nurse as part of, 154

Transplants (of cadaveric organs) A & E departments and their role concerning, 8 donor card legal significance, 49

Trauma (injury) initial assessment skills, 183 multiple, spinal immobilisation with, 25 penetrating, in Manchester, 65 scoring, 125

Trauma team, preparation for nurse as part of, 154 Triage, trials of, 174

LJ

Unconscious patient, consent and the, 17l

I

W

Wound infection, antiseptics and, 79

HadfIeld, L., 20, 58, 154 HQgman, H., 104 Hamilton, A., 183 Hare, L., 56

Jones, C., 193 Jones, G. J., 41,210

M

McCollum, J., 139 McKechnie, R., 149 McMaster, B., 116,132

1 N I Nurse, N., 111

0 I Ohta, M., 161

I P

Pattison, B., 34 Pimblett, A., 132

Robinson, D. K., 53

I S

Sbaih, L. C., 203

I T I

Takahashi, A., 161 Teq J., 199 Tippett, J., 25

Ward, R., 92 Williams, J., 167 Wong, T. K. S., 73 Wright, B., 1, 63, 123,181