Introduction to Critical Care Nursing

PART I. FUNDAMENTAL CONCEPTS * Overview of Critical Care Nursing * Patient and Family Response to the Critical Care Experience * Ethical and Legal Issues in Critical Care Nursing * End-of-Life Care in the Critical Care Unit PART II. TOOLS FOR THE CRITICAL CARE NURSE * Comfort and Sedation * Nutritional Support * Dysrhythmia Interpretation and Management * Hemodynamic Monitoring * Ventilatory Assistance * Rapid Response Teams and Code Management PART III. NURSING CARE DURING CRITICAL ILLNESS * Shock, Sepsis, and Multiple Organ Dysfunction Syndrome * Cardiovascular Alterations * Nervous System Alterations * Acute Respiratory Failure * Acute Kidney Injury * Hematological and Immune Disorders * Gastrointestinal Alterations * Endocrine Alterations * Trauma and Surgical Management * Burns * Solid Organ Transplantation NEW!