Philip Jevon, Beverly Ewens

Monitoring the Critically Ill Patient

With Jagtar S. Pooni

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Monitoring the Critically Ill Patient is an essential, accessible guide to caring for critically ill patients on the general ward. Now fully updated and improved throughout, this well established and handy referenced text assumes no prior knowledge and equips students and newly-qualified staff with the clinical skills and knowledge they need to confidently monitor patients at risk, identify key priorities, and provide prompt and effective care.

This new edition includes the following 5 brand new chapters:
Monitoring the critically ill child
Monitoring the critically ill pregnant patient
Monitoring the patient with infection and related systemic inflammatory response
Monitoring a patient receiving a blood transfusion
Monitoring pain

Produktdetails

• Essential Clinical Skills for Nurses
• Verlag: Wiley & Sons / Wiley-Blackwell
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 1A444337470
• 3. Aufl.
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. März 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 185mm x 124mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 310g
• ISBN-13: 9781444337471
• ISBN-10: 1444337475
• Artikelnr.: 34465301

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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
Monitoring 115 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 Systemic Infl 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