Monitoring the Critically Ill Patient
3. Auflage
Erschienen am 24. Februar 2012
376 Seiten
978-1-118-27614-3 (ISBN)
Beschreibung
Monitoring the Critically Ill Patient is an invaluable,accessible guide to caring for critically ill patients on thegeneral ward. Now fully updated and improved throughout, thiswell-established and handy reference guide text assumes no priorknowledge and equips students and newly-qualified staff with theclinical skills and knowledge they need to confidently monitorpatients at risk, identify key priorities, and provide prompt andeffective care.
This new edition includes the following five new chapters:
* Monitoring the critically ill child
* Monitoring the critically ill pregnant patient
* Monitoring the patient with infection and related systemicinflammatory response
* Monitoring a patient receiving a blood transfusion
* Monitoring pain
Rezensionen / Stimmen
"This would be a helpful guide for nurses working in anyacute setting; acute wards, coronary care, critical care outreachor the emergency department. It is also a good introductory toolfor critical care nurses explaining the principles of assessment,different types of invasive monitoring and waveforms and soon." (Nursing Times, 17 October 2012)Weitere Details
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Philip Jevon | Beverley Ewens
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Philip Jevon is Resuscitation Officer/Clinical Skills Lead, Manor Hospital, Walsall. He is Honorary Clinical Lecturer at Birmingham Medical School, and Editor of The British Journal of Resuscitation
Beverley Ewens is Nurse Manager in Critical Care at Joondalup Health Campus, Perth, Western Australia. She is an ALS instructor and Course Director for the ALERT course at Walsall.
Inhalt
Foreword vii
Preface ix
Contributors xi
1 Recognition and Management of the Deteriorating Patient 1
2 Assessment of the Critically Ill Patient 25
3 Monitoring Respiratory Function 39
4 Monitoring Cardiovascular Function 1: ECG Monitoring 91
5 Monitoring Cardiovascular Function 2: Haemodynamic Monitoring115
6 Monitoring Neurological Function 154
7 Monitoring Renal Function 177
8 Monitoring Gastrointestinal Function 197
9 Monitoring Hepatic Function 209
10 Monitoring Endocrine Function 218
11 Monitoring Nutritional Status 231
12 Monitoring Temperature 244
13 Monitoring Pain 258
14 Monitoring a Patient Receiving a Blood Transfusion 267
15 Monitoring the Patient with Infection and Related SystemicInfl ammatory Response 281
16 Monitoring the Critically Ill, Pregnant Patient 302
17 Monitoring the Critically Ill Child 320
18 Monitoring During Transport 336
19 Record Keeping 346
Index 355
