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Introduction to critical care nursing / [edited by] Mary Lou Sole, PhD, RN, CCNS, CNL, FAAN, FCCM, Dean and Professor, Orlando Health Endowed Chair in Nursing, University of Central Florida College of Nursing, Research Scientist, Orlando Health, Orlando, Florida, Deborah G. Klein, MSN, RN, ACNS-BC, CCRN, CHFN, FAHA, Clinical Nurse Specialist, Coronary ICU, Heart Failure ICU, and Cardiac Short Stay/PACU, Cleveland Clinic, Clinical Instructor, Frances Payne Bolton Nursing, Case Western University, Adjunct Faculty, College of Nursing, Kent State University, Kent, Ohio, Marthe J. Moseley, PhD, RN, CCRN-K, CCNS, Director, Inpatient Evaluation Center, Office of Analytics and Business Intelligence, Veterans Healthcare Administration, Washington, D.C., Professor, Rocky Mountain University of Health Professions, Provo, Utah, Adjunct Professor, University of Texas Health Science Center School of Nursing, San Antonio, Texas.

Sole, Mary Lou, (editor.). Klein, Deborah G., (editor.). Moseley, Marthe J., (editor.).

Record details

ISBN: 9780323377034
ISBN: 0323377033
Physical Description: xx, 664 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm
Edition: 7th edition.
Publisher: St. Louis, Missouri : Elsevier, [2017]

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Overview of critical care nursing -- Patient and family response to the critical care experience -- Ethical and legal issues in critical care nursing -- Palliative and end-of-life care -- Comfort and sedation -- Nutritional support -- Dysrhythmia interpretation and management -- Hemodynamic monitoring -- Ventilatory assistance -- Rapid response teams and code management -- Organ donation -- Shock, sepsis, and multiple organ dysfunction syndrome -- Cardiovascular alterations -- Nervous system alterations -- Acute respiratory failure -- Acute kidney injury -- Hematological and immune disorders -- Gastrointestinal alterations -- Endocrine alterations -- Trauma and surgical management -- Burns.