Understanding the essentials of critical care nursing

• Main Authors: Perrin, Kathleen Ouimet (Author), MacLeod, Carrie Edgerly (Author)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Boston : Pearson, c2013
• Edition: 2nd ed.
• Series: Always learning
• Subjects: ošetřovatelství; kriticky nemocní pacienti; intenzivní péče; nursing; critical ill patients; intensive care nursing; učebnice vysokých škol; textbooks (higher)
• ISBN: 9780132724159 0-13-272415-4
• Physical Description: xx, 579 p. : il. (převážně barev.) ; 28 cm

Table of Contents:

• What is critical care?
• Care of critical ill patients
• Respiratory failure
• Interpretation and management of basic dysrhythmias
• Cardiodynamics and hemodynamics regulation
• Acute coronary syndrome
• Heart failure
• Experiencing shock
• Traumatic injury
• Intracranial dysfunction
• Cerebral or cerbrovascular disorder
• Alcohol withdrawal and liver failure
• Acute gastrointestinal bleed of pancreatitis
• Care of the patient with problems in glucose metabolism
• Care of the patient with acute kidney injury
• Caro of the organ donor and transplant recipient
• Care of actuely ill burn patient
• Care of the patient with sepsis
• Caring of the ICU patient at the end of life.