Title:
Understanding the essentials of critical care nursing / Kathleen Ouimet Perrin, Carrie Edgerly MacLeod.
Author:
Perrin, Kathleen Ouimet.
MacLeod, Carrie Edgerly.
General Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
What is critical care? -- Care of critical ill patients -- Respiratory failure -- Interpretation and management of basic dysrhythmias -- Cardiodynamics/ hemodynamics -- Shock -- Heart failure -- Acute coronary syndrome -- 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 -- Transplant -- Burn patient -- Sepsis -- End of life.
Publisher:
Pearson,
Publication Place:
Boston :
ISBN:
9780132724159 (pbk.)
0132724154 (pbk.)
Subject:
Critical Care -- methods.
Critical Illness -- nursing.
Nursing Care -- methods.
Edition:
2nd ed.
Contents:
What is critical care? -- Care of critical ill patients -- Respiratory failure -- Interpretation and management of basic dysrhythmias -- Cardiodynamics/ hemodynamics -- Shock -- Heart failure -- Acute coronary syndrome -- 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 -- Transplant -- Burn patient -- Sepsis -- End of life.
Physical Description:
xx, 579 p. : ill. (some col.) ;
Publication Date:
c2013.