基本説明
Applicable to all nurses working on the ward setting, not just critical/intensive care nurses.
Full Description
Monitoring the Critically Ill Patient is an invaluable, accessible guide to caring for critically ill patients on the general ward. Now fully updated and improved throughout, this well-established and handy reference guide 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 five 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
Contents
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 Inflammatory 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
