Nursing Medical Emergency Patients is a practical guide to the nursing care and management of patients with medical emergencies involving system failure. Following an initial chapter on assessment, the authors adopt a system-by-system approach, with an emphasis on the clinical features of medical emergencies, their assessment, diagnosis and treatment.

Nursing Medical Emergency Patients is a vital resource for all nurses working with medical emergency patients, and provides an essential companion to both Monitoring the Critically Ill Patient and Treating the Critically Ill Patient.

• Accessible and reader friendly
• Integrates theory with practice
• Adopts an evidence based approach
• Includes chapter objectives, 'best practice' boxes and case studies
• Refers to National guidelines and key initiatives e.g. outreach teams
• Includes legal and ethical issues

Philip Jevon is Resuscitation Officer/Clinical Skills Lead and Honorary Clinical Lecturer, Manor Hospital Walsall.

Melanie Humphreys is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Wolverhampton.

Beverley Ewens is Staff Development Nurse, Critical Care Unit, Joondalup Health Campus, Western Australia.