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Medical Abbreviations & Normal Ranges : Survival Guide.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Jones, Helen, RGN, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Medicine--Abbreviations.
- Medicine.
- Reference values (Medicine).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Edition:
- Second edition.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Routledge, 2019.
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- Part of the skill of nursing and healthcare involves being able to decipher and understand the meanings of results and abbreviations. Fully updated, this second edition is a handy survival guide which will supply you with up-to-date information and help you understand this language, so that you can provide appropriate holistic care to your patients.
- Contents:
- Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Introduction; Abbreviations and acronyms; Conventional units of measurement; Normal ranges; Cardiovascular; Pulse Sites; Blood pressure stages; Biochemistry; Blood composition; Coagulation screen; Cardiac enzymes; Hormones levels; Respiratory; Respiration rates; Tidal volumes; Arterial blood gases; Acid-base balance; Peak flow readings; Neurological; Glasgow coma scale (GCS); Renal; Urinanalysis; Fluid balance; Nutritional assessment; MUST; Patients at risk scores; NEWS; PEWS; References
- Notes:
- OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
- ISBN:
- 9780429786501
- 0429786506
- 9780429434945
- 0429434944
- 9780429786518
- 0429786514
- 9780429786495
- 0429786492
- OCLC:
- 1091625229
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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