| Description |
xxiv, 1553 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm |
| Contents |
Ch. 1. Practice Within the Current Health Care Environment / Joanne M. Disch -- Ch. 2. Ethics in Critical Care / Barbara J. Daly -- Ch. 3. Legal Issues in Critical Care / Ginny Wacker Guido -- Ch. 4. Occupational Health Hazards in Critical Care / Michael A. Salatka -- Ch. 5. Psychosocial Needs of Critically Ill Patients / Suzanne Clark -- Ch. 6. Psychosocial Needs of Families / Mairead Hickey -- Ch. 7. Enhancing Communication With Critically Ill Patients and Families / Verna A. Sitzer -- Ch. 8. Effect of Sensory Alterations / Dorne K. Fontaine -- Ch. 9. Chronic Illness and Critical Care Practice / Marita G. Titler -- Ch. 10. Preparing the Patient and Family for Home Care / Marjorie B. Wheeler and Susan C. Nolt -- Ch. 11. Electrocardiogram Interpretation / Linda K. Menzel and Jill M. White -- Ch. 12. Pacemakers / Margaret Catherine Jones -- Ch. 13. Hemodynamic Monitoring / Leanna R. Miller -- Ch. 14. Cardiac Assist Devices / Shelley Ruzevich -- Ch. 15. Respiratory Monitoring / Tom Ahrens -- Ch. 16. Mechanical Ventilation: Current Uses and Advances / John Wright, Peter Doyle and Gary Yoshihara -- Ch. 17. Intracranial Pressure Monitoring / Norma D. McNair -- Ch. 18. Cardiovascular Anatomy and Physiology / Patricia L. Vaska -- Ch. 19. Patients With Coronary Artery Disease / Julie Fleury, Colleen Keller and Carolyn Murdaugh -- Ch. 20. Myocardial Infarction / Barbara Riegel -- Ch. 21. Heart Failure / Debra K. Moser and Suzette Cardin -- Ch. 22. Adults With Congenital Heart Defects / Mary M. Canobbio -- Ch. 23. Patients With Valvular Disease / Linda H. Schakenbach -- Ch. 24. Patients Undergoing Cardiothoracic Surgery and Transplants / Stacey Gross, Bernice Coleman and Carol Flavell -- Ch. 25. Patients With Hypertension / Rita M. Barden -- Ch. 26. Vascular Emergencies / Jane Parthum -- Ch. 27. Respiratory Physiology / Kathleen S. Stone -- Ch. 28. Acid-Base Physiology / Carol F. Baker -- Ch. 29. Patients With Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Diseases / Frederick J. Tasota -- Ch. 30. Pulmonary Infections / Catherine J. Ryan -- Ch. 31. Patients With Acute Respiratory Failure / Elizabeth A. Henneman -- Ch. 32. Patients With Adult Respiratory Distress Syndrome / Elaine L. Enger -- Ch. 33. Care of the Chronic Mechanically Ventilated Patient / Donna J. Wilson -- Ch. 34. Neurophysiology / Victor G. Campbell and John M. Clochesy -- Ch. 35. Patients With Head Injury and Brain Dysfunction / Connie (Walleck) Jastremski -- Ch. 36. Patients With Cerebral Vascular Disorders / John M. Clochesy -- Ch. 37. Brain Death / Ellen B. Rudy -- Ch. 38. Patients With Spinal Cord Injury / Connie (Walleck) Jastremski -- Ch. 39. Patients With Guillain-Barre Syndrome / Kathryn Sabo Thompson -- Ch. 40. Craniotomy / Julie Tackenberg and John M. Clochesy -- Ch. 41. Infections of the Central Nervous System / Darlene Averell Lovasik -- Ch. 42. Renal Physiology / Patricia Peschman -- Ch. 43. Patients With Fluid and Electrolyte Disturbances / Leanna R. Miller -- Ch. 44. Patients With Acute Renal Failure / Alice (Ali) Whittaker -- Ch. 45. Patients With End-Stage Renal Disease / Barbara Albee, Nancy J. Beckman and Hidegarde M. Schell -- Ch. 46. Gastrointestinal Physiology / Una E. Westfall and Margaret Heitkemper -- Ch. 47. Nutrition in the Critically Ill / Melanie H. Shuster -- Ch. 48. Patients With Gastrointestinal Bleeding / Susan D. Ruppert and DeAnn M. Englert -- Ch. 49. Patients With Liver Dysfunction / Susan L. Smith -- Ch. 50. Patients With Acute Pancreatitis / Kathryn Hennessy -- Ch. 51. Patients With Disorders of Glucose Metabolism / Diana W. Guthrie -- Ch. 52. Patients With Disorders of the Neurohypophysis, Thyroid, and Adrenals / Danni Brown -- Ch. 53. Hematologic Physiology / Diane K. Dressler -- Ch. 54. Patients With Coagulopathies / Diane K. Dressler -- Ch. 55. Physiologic Response to Infection / M. Linda Workman -- Ch. 56. Organ Donation / Marilyn Rossman Bartucci -- Ch. 57. Immunocompromised Patients / Jan L. Hawthorne -- Ch. 58. Patients With HIV Disease / Kathleen McMahon Casey -- Ch. 59. Wound Healing / Nancy A. Stotts and JoAnne D. Whitney -- Ch. 60. Patients With Burns / Randy M. Caine -- Ch. 61. Immobility Phenomena in Critically Ill Adults / Nancy L. Szaflarski -- Ch. 62. Patients With Trauma / Deborah Goldenberg Klein -- Ch. 63. Patients With Systemic Inflammatory Response Syndrome / John M. Clochesy -- Ch. 64. Shock / Kimmith Jones -- Ch. 65. Patients With Pain / Sara Reeder -- Ch. 66. Chemical and Drug Overdose / Deanna Bevans -- Ch. 67. Alterations in Thermoregulation / Richard Henker -- Ch. 68. Preventing Postanesthesia Complications / Ginger Schafer Wlody -- Ch. 69. Patients With Obstetric Crises / Kathy Goff and Becky Hull -- Ch. 70. Patients With Oncologic Emergencies / Marcia Rostad -- Ch. 71. Elderly Patients / Carol A. Rauen and Teresa L. Britt |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Critical care medicine -- Study and teaching.
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Intensive care nursing.
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Critical Care.
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Critical Care.
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| Genre/Form |
Nurses Instruction.
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| Author |
Clochesy, John M.
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| LC no. |
95042806 |
| ISBN |
0721656749 |
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