Critical Care Notes Clinical Pocket Guide

by Jones, Janice; Fix, Brenda

• ISBN13: 9781719650373
• ISBN10: 1719650373
• eBook ISBN(s): 9781719650786
• Edition: 4th
• Format: Spiral Bound
• Copyright: 2024-04-03
• Publisher: F.A. Davis Company
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Summary

A DAVIS’S NOTES BOOK! This pocket-sized, quick reference is your go-to guide for the precise, yet comprehensive concepts, skills, and procedures you need to care for adult patients safely and effectively. Completely revised and updated, you’ll find even more of what you need at a moment’s notice, including coverage of rebreathing masks, cardiac surgeries, traumatic brain and head injuries, MRSA prevention and treatment guidelines, and much more! Write-on, wipe-off, reusable pages make it easy to take notes in any setting!
 
See what students and practitioners are saying online about the previous editions…
Excellent. "I’m a nursing student and find this book extremely helpful in targeting each of my last semester’s topics--Shock, Hemodynamics, ARDS, just to name a few.”
 
This book is awesome. “It is like having a personal critical care nurse by your side at all times. As a new nurse, you get nervous, but not with the pocket guide!!”
 
Fantastic book and definitely a must-have! “This is the most useful book I have ever purchased for use in the clinical setting! I love how concise and accessible information is and that the pages are waterproof.”
 
Five Stars “Excellent pocket size guide for any nurse or nursing student.”
 

• Updated & Revised! Thoroughly updated and revised, including the latest evidence-based guidelines, management practices, and medications
• New & Expanded! ICU-specific coverage of Covid and RSV in adult patients, early mobility and its advantages, PTSD, family presence, and palliative care
• Updated & Revised! One-page table of the most common lab tests with a column for entering an institution’s normal values and two columns for entering a patient’s values

• Consistent presentation by body system of 95 commonly encountered diseases/conditions
• Information on 40 medications specific to Critical Care
• Coverage of multiple system failure, trauma, and burns

 
 

Table of Contents

Tab 1. Basics
Tab 2. Cardiovascular
Tab 3. Respiratory
Tab 4. Genitourinary
Tab 5. Neuro
Tab 6. Gastrointestinal
Tab 7. Hematology/Oncology
Tab 8. Endocrine
Tab 9. Multi-system Failure/Trauma/Burns
Tab 10. Critical Care Meds
Tab 11. Tools