Medical Abbreviations & Normal Ranges : Survival Guide.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jones, Helen, RGN, author.

Series:

Nursing & health survival guides.

Nursing and health survival guides

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Medicine--Abbreviations.

Medicine.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (69 pages).

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

London : Routledge, 2019.

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:

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-429-43494-4

0-429-78650-6

0-429-78651-4

9780429434945

OCLC:

1091625229