Critical care challenges : disorders, treatments, and procedures / editors, Jennifer P. Kowalak, William Welsh, Elizabeth Jacqueline Mills ; copy editors, Kimberly Bilotta [and eight others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.

Kowalak, Jennifer P.

Welsh, William.

Mills, Elizabeth Jacqueline.

Bilotta, Kimberly.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Intensive care nursing.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (736 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Ambler, Pennsylvania : Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Critical Care Challenges provides comprehensive, up-to-date information to help nurses keep pace with the latest technological advances, newest treatments, most current diagnostic tests, proven standards of care, and evidence-based nursing interventions. Useful to nurses new to critical care as well as experienced critical care nurses who need more in-depth information, the book covers pathophysiology, clinical assessment, diagnosis, medical treatments, procedures, and nursing interventions. Body-system organization and repetitive entry formats make locating essential information fast and easy. The book contains entries on more than 125 disorders, treatments, and procedures.

Contents:

""Critical Care Challenges: DISORDERS, TREATMENTS, AND PROCEDURES""; ""Contents""; ""Contributors and consultants""; ""Foreword""; ""PART ONE Disorders, treatments, and procedures""; ""1 Cardiovascular system challenges""; ""2 Respiratory system challenges""; ""3 Neurologic system challenges""; ""4 Gastrointestinal system challenges""; ""5 Renal system challenges""; ""6 Endocrine system challenges""; ""7 Multisystem challenges""; ""PART TWO Quick reference to vital facts""; ""Index""

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes index.

ISBN:

1-4698-8075-X

OCLC:

908511270