Liver Diseases

An Essential Guide for Nurses and Health Care Professionals
Herausgeber: Sargent, Suzanne

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Liver disease is a rapidly growing speciality, and nurses and health care professionals need to have the relevant knowledge and skills to care for patients with liver problems in a safe and effective way. Adult Liver Care is a comprehensive, evidence-based, practical guide to the nursing care and management of patients with liver disease. Adult Liver Care explores a range of liver conditions, including cirrhosis, portal hypertension, alcoholic liver disease, viral hepatitis, autoimmune hepatitis, Wilson's disease and acute liver failure. It looks at the anatomy & physiology of the liver, assessment of liver function and diagnostic studies, acute and chronic liver disease, pregnancy related liver disease, liver transplantation and infectious liver diseases. For each condition the epidemiology, complications and nursing management are provided, along with illustrative case studies and further reading. Adult Liver Care is an invaluable tool for all nurses and health care professionals working with people with liver disease.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juni 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 611g
• ISBN-13: 9781405163064
• ISBN-10: 1405163062
• Artikelnr.: 26187853

Autorenporträt

Suzanne Sargent is a Lecturer Practitioner at the Institute of Liver Studies, Kings College Hospital and at Kings College London.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Anatomy & Physiology.

2. Assessment of Liver Function and Diagnostic Studies.

3. Jaundice.

4. Cirrhosis, Portal Hypertension and GastrointestinalHaemorrhage.

5. Ascites and Spontaneous Bacterial Peritonitis.

6. Hepatorenal Failure and Renal Impairment in LiverDisease.

7. Hepatic Encephalopathy.

8. Alcoholic Liver disease.

9. Fatty Liver-Non Alcoholic Steatohepatis.

10. Viral Hepatitis.

11. Autoimmune Hepatitis.

12. Primary Biliary Cirrhosis and Primary SclerosingCholangitis.

13. Haemochromatosis, Wilson's Disease, Alpha1-antitrypsin Deficiency and Other Metabolic Liver Diseases.

14. Acute Liver Failure.

15. Nutrition in Chronic Liver Disease.

16. Drug Induced Liver Failure.

17. Pregnancy Related Liver Disease.

18. Hepatocellular and Hepatobiliary Carcinomas.

19. Infectious Liver Diseases.

20. Liver Transplantation