Case Studies in Critical Care Nursing : A Guide for Application and Review

by Melander, Sheila Drake

• ISBN13: 9780721689968
• ISBN10: 0721689965
• Additional ISBN(s): 9780721603445
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-09-01
• Publisher: Elsevier Science Health Science div
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Summary

Detailed and up-to-date, this new second edition offers practical case sudies covering a wide variety of critical care problems. Each features questions and answers to help readers sharpen their critical-thinking skills and prepare for the CCRN exam. It features new chapters on blunt abdominal trauma and abdominal aortic aneurysm, and updated case studies reflect new treatment modalities and current critical care pharmacology.

Table of Contents

Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome	1	(10)
Sharon Angle
Sheila Drake Melander
Pulmonary Embolism	10	(21)
Mary Ann Wehmer
Pulmonary Contusion	31	(7)
Judith A. Halstead
Sheila Drake Melander
Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease with Pneumonia	38	(13)
Sheila Drake Melander
Percutaneous Transluminal Coronary Angioplasty and Thrombolytic Therapy in Myocardial Infarction	51	(21)
Alice Lowe
Sheila Drake Melander
Coronary Artery Bypass Graft	72	(14)
Karen L. Jones
Sheila Drake Melander
Cardiac Shock in Anterior Wall Myocardial Infarction	86	(14)
Debra L. Harmon
Non-Q-Wave Myocardial Infarction	100	(8)
Sheila Drake Melander
Amy Reese Ramirez
Congestive Heart Failure	108	(13)
Joan E. King
Carotid Endarterectomy	121	(11)
Pam B. Koob
Acute Renal Failure	132	(11)
Amy Reese Ramirez
Sheila Drake Melander
Chronic Renal Failure and Renal Transplantation	143	(19)
Phyllis Ann Egbert
Subarachnoid Hemorrhage with Aneurysm	162	(15)
Cinda Alexander
Head Trauma and Subdural Hematoma	177	(17)
Cinda Alexander
Epidural Hematoma	194	(4)
Cinda Alexander
Gastrointestinal Tract Bleeding	198	(8)
Cynthia S. Goodwin
Acute Pancreatitis	206	(20)
Ann H. White
Peritonitis	226	(10)
Lynn Rodgers
Esophageal Varices	236	(8)
Linda K. Evinger
Adrenal Crisis	244	(12)
Anne G. Denner
Syndrome of Inappropriate Secretion of Antidiuretic Hormone	256	(13)
Colleen R. Walsh
Diabetic Ketoacidosis	269	(11)
Anne G. Denner
Multiple Organ Dysfunction Syndrome	280	(14)
Debra L. Harmon
Sepsis/Septic Shock	294	(15)
Lynn Rodgers
Burns	309	(27)
Ann H. White
Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome	336	(21)
Connie Cooper
Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm	357	(5)
Brian W. Higgerson
Blunt Abdominal Trauma	362	(17)
Joan E. King
Abbreviations	379