Operation Flight Nurse: Real-Life Medical Emergencies
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Book Overview
An 85-year-old woman is bleeding into her brain, and no one knows whether she would want CPR. A Jehovah's Witness with a torn aorta refuses the blood that could save his life. A man in severe heart failure needs a flight from Las Vegas to a transplant center across the country. And a day that starts with a routine helicopter shift ends 22 hours later, after a trip to Guatemala City and back.
In Operation Flight Nurse, flight nurse practitioner David M. Kaniecki takes you along on thirteen real critical care transports by helicopter, jet, and ground ambulance. Each chapter follows one patient from the first call to the outcome, explains in plain language what is happening inside the body, and ends with take-home points: one set for nurses and EMS providers, and one for everyone else.
Inside you'll findThirteen true cases, including stroke and brain bleeds, heart attack, cardiac arrest, aortic dissection, severe pneumonia, heart failure, and diabetic ketoacidosis in pregnancyThe crew's game plan: what the flight team is thinking on the way to the patient, and how that plan changes at the bedsidePlain-language explanations of each condition, plus a glossary of medical termsTake-home points on advance directives, learning CPR, heart attack and stroke warning signs, and why skipped medications send people to the hospitalA closing essay on air medical safety and what it would take to make medical helicopters saferWho it's forNursing and paramedic students, ICU and ER nurses thinking about flight, new critical care transport clinicians, and anyone who has ever watched a medical helicopter lift off and wondered what happens on board.
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