| Description |
xxiii, 751 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm + 1 CD-ROM (4 3/4 in.) |
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4 3/4 in |
| Contents |
Overview of critical care nursing -- Individual and family response to the critical care experience -- Ethical and legal issues in critical care nursing -- Comfort and sedation -- Nutritional support -- Dysrhythmia interpretation -- Hemodynamic monitoring -- Ventilatory assistance -- Code management -- Shock and sepsis -- Cardiovascular alterations -- Nervous system alterations -- Acute respiratory failure -- Acute renal failure -- Hematological and immune disorders -- Gastrointestinal alterations -- Endocrine alterations -- Surgical and trauma management -- Burns |
| Summary |
"This user-friendly text gets to the heart of critical care nursing with practical coverage of the concepts, assessment, and technical skills that every critical care nurse must know. This fourth edition has been expanded and carefully updated to reflect the new information and technology that continue to shape the field of critical care nursing."--BOOK JACKET |
| Notes |
Previous ed.: 2001 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
System requirements: Windows: Windows 98 or higher; Pentium II 400 MHz or faster processor; at least 64 MB RAM recommended; 10 MB free hard disk space; 48X or faster CD-ROM drive; 800 x 600 monitor with True Color. Macintosh: OS 9.2 or higher; Power Macintosh; at least 64 MB RAM recommended; 10 MB free hard disk space; 48X or faster CD-ROM drive; 800 x 600 monitor with millions of colors |
| Subject |
Critical care medicine.
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Intensive care nursing.
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Critical Care.
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Nursing Care.
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| Author |
Sole, Mary Lou.
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Klein, Deborah G.
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Moseley, Marthe J.
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| LC no. |
2010286351 |
| ISBN |
0721605206 |
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