Chest Drains in Daily Clinical Practice
Chest Drains in Daily Clinical Practice

Author: Thomas Kiefer

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2017-02-06

Total Pages: 207

ISBN-13: 3319323393

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This book covers all aspects of successfully treating patients using chest drains, beginning with anatomy and ending with physiotherapy and pain management. The aim of the book is to provide medical professionals with a step-by-step guide to using a chest drain, with specific chapters on indications, kinds of chest drains, catheters, drainage systems, how to insert a chest tube, complications during placement and handling of a chest drain, removing a chest drain, management of the pleural space and post-procedural care. Unlike general thoracic surgery textbooks, this book gives a complete overview of chest drains in clinical practice to ensure the best possible care of patients.

Clinical Management of Chest Tubes, An Issue of Thoracic Surgery Clinics, E-Book
Clinical Management of Chest Tubes, An Issue of Thoracic Surgery Clinics, E-Book

Author: Pier Luigi Filosso

Publisher: Elsevier Health Sciences

Published: 2016-11-21

Total Pages: 145

ISBN-13: 0323496806

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This issue of Thoracic Surgery Clinics, guest edited by Dr. Pier Luigi Filosso, is devoted to Clinical Management of Chest Tubes. Dr. Filosso has assembled expert authors to review the following topics: Chest Tubes Throughout the Centuries: An Overview of Pleural Space Drainage Across History; Generalities of Chest Tubes; Chest Tube Placement After Pulmonary Resection; Thoracic Trauma: Which Chest Tube?; Chest Tube Placement in Pleural Effusions and Pneumothorax; Modern Techniques to Insert Chest Tubes; Suction or Non-suction?: How to Manage a Chest Tube After Pulmonary Resection; When to Remove a Chest Tube?; Indwelling Pleural Catheters: A Clinical Option in Trapped Lung; Errors in Chest Tube Placement; and more!

Critical Care Nursing
Critical Care Nursing

Author: Patricia Gonce Morton

Publisher:

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 1376

ISBN-13: 0781727596

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A classic in its field, this popular text provides clinical coverage of critical care nursing, with an emphasis on holism in practice. Beginning with the psychosocial concepts of care, the text progresses through assessment and management of a variety of disorders. Now under the head authorship of Tricia Morton, Critical Care Nursing maintains its popular holistic approach to the complexities of adult health and critical care. The Eighth Edition is now in full-color, and has been thoroughly updated to reflect recent changes and advances in critical care nursing. A CD-ROM in the back of this edition has common Critical Care Drug Monographs, Crisis Values of Lab Tests, Critical Care Nursing Procedures, Animations, and comprehensive critical care exams.

Core Topics in Cardiothoracic Critical Care
Core Topics in Cardiothoracic Critical Care

Author: Kamen Valchanov

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2018-07-05

Total Pages: 541

ISBN-13: 1108665675

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Most patients with critical cardiac or thoracic conditions will at some stage pass through the cardiothoracic critical care unit. Critical care presents more complex clinical data than any other area of medicine. The new edition of Core Topics in Cardiothoracic Critical Care focuses on the latest practise in the management of patients in cardiothoracic intensive care. The practice of cardiothoracic critical care medicine is constantly evolving, and this new edition reflects the modernized learning styles for trainees. Each chapter includes key learning points as well as sample multiple choice questions and answers to assist in exam preparation. This edition also features updated chapters on ECMO, perioperative management of patients undergoing emergency cardiothoracic surgery, and advanced modes of organ support for patients. This text provides key knowledge in a concise and accessible manner for trainees, clinicians and consultants from specialities and disciplines such as cardiology and anaesthesia, and nursing and physiotherapy.

Closed Chest Drainage
Closed Chest Drainage

Author: Concept Media, Inc.

Publisher: Concept Media

Published: 2003-01-01

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9781602320598

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Caring for a patient with a chest tube is a complex nursing responsibility. This program explains why chest tubes are inserted and how the chest drainage unit operates. Dressing placement after tube insertion is demonstrated, assessment of potential complications with the patient and the chest drainage unit are also addressed.

Mayo Clinic Critical and Neurocritical Care Board Review
Mayo Clinic Critical and Neurocritical Care Board Review

Author: Eelco F. M. Wijdicks

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2019

Total Pages: 1089

ISBN-13: 0190862920

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Mayo Clinic Critical and Neurocritical Care Board Review is a comprehensive review of critical care medicine and neurocritical care to assist in preparation of the neurocritical care and general critical care boards.

Perry & Potter's Canadian Clinical Nursing Skills and Techniques- E-Book
Perry & Potter's Canadian Clinical Nursing Skills and Techniques- E-Book

Author: Shelley Cobbett

Publisher: Elsevier Health Sciences

Published: 2023-11-10

Total Pages: 1298

ISBN-13: 0323872972

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NEW! Safety Alerts highlight the importance and need for special monitoring or intervention in some circumstances. NEW! Documentation examples provide guidance on documentation for various aspects of nursing care. NEW! Unit openers explain the importance of clinical judgement in safely and correctly performing the skills covered in the unit. These openers also demonstrate the impact of environmental factors and interdisciplinary collaboration on safe patient care. NEW! Care in the Community: Home Management subsections in Care and Community highlight specific home care issues related to applicable skills. NEW! COVID-19 precautions and protocols are included in relevant skills. NEW! Hand and hygiene icon added to "hand hygiene moments" provides a quick visual prompt to this important protocol. NEW! Case studies for the Next-Generation NCLEX® on the Evolve companion website, with accompanying questions for the Next-Generation NCLEX®, challenge students to apply critical thinking and clinical judgement, providing optimal preparation for the exam.

Principles and Practice of Anesthesia for Thoracic Surgery
Principles and Practice of Anesthesia for Thoracic Surgery

Author: Peter Slinger, MD, FRCPC

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2011-07-12

Total Pages: 718

ISBN-13: 1441901833

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Principles and Practice of Anesthesia for Thoracic Surgery will serve as an updated comprehensive review covering not only the recent advances, but also topics that haven't been covered in previously published texts: extracorporeal ventilatory support, new advances in chest imaging modalities, lung isolation with a difficult airway, pulmonary thrombo-endarterectomy, and chronic post-thoracotomy pain. Additionally, the book features clinical case discussions at the end of each clinical chapter as well as tables comprising detailed anesthetic management.

Oxford Textbook of Critical Care
Oxford Textbook of Critical Care

Author: Webb

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2020-01-10

Total Pages: 1961

ISBN-13: 0198855435

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Now in paperback, the second edition of the Oxford Textbook of Critical Care is a comprehensive multi-disciplinary text covering all aspects of adult intensive care management. Uniquely this text takes a problem-orientated approach providing a key resource for daily clinical issues in the intensive care unit. The text is organized into short topics allowing readers to rapidly access authoritative information on specific clinical problems. Each topic refers to basic physiological principles and provides up-to-date treatment advice supported by references to the most vital literature. Where international differences exist in clinical practice, authors cover alternative views. Key messages summarise each topic in order to aid quick review and decision making. Edited and written by an international group of recognized experts from many disciplines, the second edition of the Oxford Textbook of Critical Careprovides an up-to-date reference that is relevant for intensive care units and emergency departments globally. This volume is the definitive text for all health care providers, including physicians, nurses, respiratory therapists, and other allied health professionals who take care of critically ill patients.