Helen Jones (UK University of Worcester)

Medical Abbreviations & Normal Ranges

Survival Guide

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Part of the skill of nursing and healthcare involves being able to decipher and understand the meanings of results and abbreviations.

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Produktdetails

• Nursing and Health Survival Guides
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• 2 ed
• Seitenzahl: 64
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Mai 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 81mm x 120mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 66g
• ISBN-13: 9781138351974
• ISBN-10: 1138351970
• Artikelnr.: 56784247

Autorenporträt

Helen Jones is Senior Lecturer, Pre-Registration Nursing at the University of Worcester, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Abbreviations and acronyms
Conventional units of measurement
Normal Ranges:
Cardiovascular: Pulse Sites
Blood pressure stages
Biochemistry
Blood composition: Coagulation screen
Cardiac Enzymes
Hormone levels
Respiratory: Respiration rates
Tidal Volumes
Arterial Blood Gases
Acid Base Balance
Peak Flow readings
Neurological: Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS)
Renal: Urinalysis
Fluid Balance
Nutritional assessment: MUST
Patient at Risk Scores: NEWS
PEWS
Skin assessment: WATERLOW