Mosby's Critical Care Nursing Reference

by Stillwell

• ISBN13: 9780323016445
• ISBN10: 0323016448
• Edition: 3rd
• Copyright: 2002-04-24
• Publisher: Mosby

Summary

MOSBY'S CRITICAL CARE NURSING REFERENCE condenses the most essential critical care nursing information into one easy-access format providing precise acute care management strategies. The book's format provides easy access to information needed by the critical care nurse in a number of settings. Appendixes supplement the text with formulas, laboratory values, and scoring tools. The third edition includes a new introduction regarding the role, responsibilities, and routine of critical care nurses; expanded information on pain, infection control, and cardiac surgery patients in the critical care unit; updated terminology, topics, modalities, and treatments; and comparisons of acute and chronic conditions where applicable. A new pharmaco-therapy chapter also provides drug interactions and pharmacokinetics. A Volume in the Nursing Reference Series

Table of Contents

Critical Care Patient Assessment Guides	1	(32)
Acute Pain in the Critically Ill Patient	33	(8)
Concepts Common in the Care of the Critically Ill Patient	41	(16)
The Critically Ill Patient	57	(300)
Neurologic Disorders	57	(51)
Pulmonary Disorders	108	(34)
Cardiovascular Disorders	142	(74)
Gastrointestinal Disorders	216	(27)
Endocrine Disorders	243	(38)
Renal Disorders	281	(30)
Multisystem Disorders	311	(46)
Psychosocial Concerns of the Critically Ill Patient	357	(18)
Complementary Therapies	375	(12)
Nursing Care of the Child in the Adult Intensive Care Unit (ICU)	387	(76)
Monitoring the Critically Ill Patient	463	(60)
Therapeutic Modalities	523	(126)
Neurologic Modalities	523	(9)
Pulmonary Modalities	532	(20)
Cardiovascular (CV) Modalities	552	(35)
Gastrointestinal (GI) Modalities	587	(23)
Renal Modalities	610	(12)
Miscellaneous Therapeutic Modalities	622	(27)
Pharmacology in the Critically Ill Patient	649	(50)
APPENDICES	699	(76)
A. Scoring Tools	699	(10)
B. Organ and Tissue Donation	709	(4)
C. Body Surface Area (BSA) Nomogram	713	(2)
D. Formulas	715	(10)
E. Guides to Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support	725	(50)
Glossary	775