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Professional Practice in Paramedic, Emergency and Urgent Care
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Newark :
John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated,
2013.
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| Colección: | New York Academy of Sciences Ser.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro
- Professional Practice in Paramedic, Emergency and Urgent Care
- Contents
- List of Contributors
- Introduction
- Acknowledgements
- 1 History Taking
- Introduction
- Obtaining the information
- Identifying the data
- The presenting complaint
- History of presenting complaint
- Onset
- Provocative/palliative
- Quality
- Region/radiation
- Severity
- Timing
- Mechanism of injury
- Red flags
- Past medical history
- Previous illnesses and surgery
- Drug history
- Allergies
- Family history
- Social history
- Smoking
- Alcohol and recreational drugs
- Mental health history
- Sexual health
- Review of systems
- Summary
- References
- 2 Consultation and Communication Skills
- Introduction
- Consultation/communication skills in a diagnostic context
- Aims of the consultation
- Consultation/communication skills
- Verbal communication
- Pace
- Pitch of voice
- Tone of voice
- Fluency of speech
- Non-verbal communication
- Body language
- Facial expressions
- Assertiveness
- Communication breakdown and barriers
- Educational standard, level of healthcare knowledge and use of jargon
- Language barriers and cultural or ethical differences
- Age
- Cognitive limitations
- Stress related to clinical status
- Power imbalance
- Imbalance of power
- Other barriers to communication
- Communication/consultation models
- Transactional analysis model
- Pendleton et al seven task model
- Neighbour's five checkpoint model
- Calgary-Cambridge model
- Summary
- References
- 3 Clinical Decision Making
- Introduction
- A brief introduction to decision making theories
- Decision-making theories
- Decision-making models
- Intuitive framework
- heuristics approach
- Intuition
- Pattern recognition
- Analytical frameworks
- rationalist approach
- The hypothetico-deductive framework
- Hypothetico-deductive method
- Cognitive continuum framework
- Further decision-making methods
- Naturalistic decision making
- Group decision making
- Tools to support clinical decision making
- Clinical guidelines
- Protocols
- Algorithms
- Decision trees
- Decision matrix
- The Bayesian approach
- Clinical decision-making skills
- Uncertainty within critical decision making
- How do you measure the uncertainty?
- Factors affecting your decision making
- Summary