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Monitoring the critically ill patient / Philip Jevon and Beverley Ewens ; consulting editor, Jagtar Singh Pooni.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Jevon, Philip.
- Ewens, Beverley, author.
- Series:
- Essential clinical skills for nurses.
- Essential clinical skills for nurses
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Patient monitoring.
- Critical care medicine.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xi, 359 pages) : illustrations
- Edition:
- 3rd ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Chichester [England] : Wiley-Blackwell, 2012.
- Chichester, West Sussex : Wiley-Blackwell, 2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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 childMonitoring
- Contents:
- Recognition & management of the deteriorating patient
- Assessment of the critically ill patient
- Monitoring respiratory function
- Monitoring cardiovascular function 1 : ECG monitoring
- Monitoring cardiovascular function 2 haemodynamic monitoring
- Monitoring neurological function
- Monitoring renal function
- Monitoring gastrointestinal function
- Monitoring hepatic function
- Monitoring endocrine function
- Monitoring nutritional status
- Monitoring temperature
- Monitoring pain
- Monitoring a patient receiving a blood transfusion
- Monitoring the patient with infection and related systemic inflammatory response
- Monitoring the critically ill, pregnant patient
- Monitoring the critically ill child
- Monitoring during transport
- Record keeping.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786613628992
- 9781118276150
- 1118276159
- 9781118702932
- 111870293X
- 9781280599163
- 1280599162
- 9781118276143
- 1118276140
- OCLC:
- 823842231
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