Emergency care practitioners work in a variety of settings and provide emergency, urgent or unscheduled care. Use this guide to find information resources about emergency care including books, reports and journal articles.
NHS Improvement (2017) Improving patient flow through urgent and emergency care.
Beed M, Sherman R and Mahajan R (2013) Emergencies in critical care: a concise guide to the practical management of core medical emergencies, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Dolan B and Holt L (2013) Accident and emergency: theory into practice (3rd edition), Edinburgh: Bailliere Tindall.
Goyal D and Mattu A (2012) Urgent care emergencies: avoiding the pitfalls and improving the outcomes, Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell.
Holbery N, Newcombe P (editors) (2016) Emergency nursing at a glance, Chichester : Wiley-Blackwell.
Jandial R and Jandial D (2014) Code blue: bedside procedures and critical information, Boca Raton: CRC Press.
Mattu A et al. (2017) Avoiding common errors in the emergency department (2nd edition), Philadelphia: Wolters Kluwer.
Nixon V (2013) Professional practice in paramedic, emergency and urgent care, Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell.
Nutbeam T and Boylan M (2013) ABC of prehospital emergency medicine, Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell.
Peate I and Dutton H (2012) Acute nursing care: recognising and responding to medical emergencies, Harlow: Pearson.
Soar J, Perkins G and Nolan J (2013) ABC of resuscitation, Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell.
Williamson T (2014) Care bundles in emergency medicine, London: Radcliffe.
Wilson M, Guluma K, Hayden S (editors) (2016) Doing research in emergency and acute care: making order out of chaos, Chichester: Wiley Blackwell.
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