CURRENT Essentials of Critical Care

CURRENT Essentials of Critical Care

Author: Darryl Y. Sue

Publisher: McGraw Hill Professional

Published: 2004-10-03

Total Pages: 324

ISBN-13: 9780071436564

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The most efficient way to get practical answers on more than 200 conditions among the critically ill. Supplies key diagnostic, differential diagnostic, and treatment information for each disorder on a single page. With a clinical pearl per page, plus references, this book truly is essential in critical care.


Cardiac Surgery Essentials for Critical Care Nursing

Cardiac Surgery Essentials for Critical Care Nursing

Author: Sonya R. Hardin

Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Learning

Published: 2019-03-07

Total Pages: 602

ISBN-13: 1284196003

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Cardiac Surgery Essentials for Critical Care Nursing, Third Edition is an indispensable resource for new and experienced nurses caring for patients in critical care units immediately following cardiac surgery and in the transitioning to home. With an evidence-based foundation, the Third Edition addresses nursing knowledge to meet the needs of acutely ill patients and strategies to optimizing patient outcomes in this dynamic field. Vital information has been added and updated to reflect significant changes in cardiac surgery as well as four new chapters based on needs of patients, families, and readers. These new chapters address nutritional issues, post ICU-care, psychological and spiritual support, and rehabilitation care post cardiac surgery.


Current Critical Care Diagnosis & Treatment

Current Critical Care Diagnosis & Treatment

Author: Frederic S. Bongard

Publisher:

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780071212069

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This work covers the fundamentals of critical care, topics related to medical critical care, and the essentials of surgical intensive care. Early chapters cover physiology and pathophysiology of critical illness, and later chapters cover pathophysiology using an organ or disease specific approach. This second edition includes an update on new treatment strategies for acute respiratory distress syndrome, and recommendations on critical care supportive measures, including nutrition, prevention of bleeding, and prevention of deep venous thrombosis.


AACN Advanced Critical Care Nursing - E-Book Version to be sold via e-commerce site

AACN Advanced Critical Care Nursing - E-Book Version to be sold via e-commerce site

Author: American Association of Critical-Care Nr

Publisher: Elsevier Health Sciences

Published: 2008-04-24

Total Pages: 1635

ISBN-13: 1437726208

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From AACN experts comes a resource dedicated to helping you oversee or care for critical care patients in any practice setting. This comprehensive critical care nursing textbook addresses serious and potentially life-threatening patient conditions with a foundation rooted in the critical thinking process: the comprehension, analysis, synthesis, and application of knowledge. - Endorsed by the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses (AACN), the largest specialty nursing organization in the United States, for the most authoritative coverage available. - Thorough discussions of each body system emphasize advanced concepts, presenting physiology in an application format that examines the clinical implications of physiological science. - Coverage of assessment focuses on interpreting abnormal findings and linking those findings to diagnosis and intervention. - Appropriate interventions are discussed from an interdisciplinary, evidence-based perspective. - Hundreds of new, full-color illustrations and design clarify important concepts and improve the book's usability. - Complex, unfolding case studies are presented in all disease chapters, accompanied by review questions with a comprehensive answer key. - Multidisciplinary Plans of Care provide at-a-glance information for common ICU conditions. - Nutrition boxes appear in each relevant chapter, offering guidelines for patient needs with specific illnesses. - Research-Based Practice Guidelines boxes and Promoting Evidence-Based Practice features appear throughout the text whenever applicable to present the latest research-supported nursing assessment and intervention practices. - Drug boxes include common classifications of critical care drugs for specific disorders, including drug, actions, dosage, and special considerations. - Applying the Technology features help you apply the latest technology to patient care. - NIC Interventions boxes list NIC intervention labels appropriate for the conditions discussed in a chapter.


Critical Care Medicine

Critical Care Medicine

Author: John J. Marini

Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

Published: 2012-03-28

Total Pages: 723

ISBN-13: 1451152841

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Ideally suited for students in critical care rotations and residents, this concise, practical handbook presents the essentials of medical and surgical critical care in an easy-to-read format. The authors succinctly explain the pathophysiology underlying clinical disorders and the key principles of diagnosis and patient management, emphasizing cost-effective approaches. The Fourth Edition includes Controversies in Critical Care boxes in many chapters, which briefly summarize opposing arguments on controversial points. Other highlights include enhanced discussion of CT for abdominal disorders, new ACLS guidelines, and new material on removable IVC filters, interventional radiologic techniques for GI bleeding, and use of vascular ultrasound.


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.


AACN Essentials of Critical Care Nursing Pocket Handbook, Second Edition

AACN Essentials of Critical Care Nursing Pocket Handbook, Second Edition

Author: Marianne Chulay

Publisher: McGraw Hill Professional

Published: 2010-05-24

Total Pages: 208

ISBN-13: 0071702733

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Essential Data Critical Care Nurses Must Know Endorsed by the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses, this go-anywhere handbook features tables and figures that encapsulate all the information required to give safe and effective care to critically ill patients. Contents include: Critical Care Drug Tables • Normal Values for Laboratory Tests and Physiologic Parameters • Lists of Assessment Components • Cardiac Rhythms: ECG Characteristics and Treatment Guides, Including Sample Rhythm Strips • 12-Lead ECG Changes in Acute Myocardial Ischemia and Infarct • Troubleshooting Guide for Hemodynamic Monitoring Equipment • Indications for Mechanical Ventilation • Weaning Assessment Tool • ACLS Algorithms.


Understanding the Essentials of Critical Care Nursing

Understanding the Essentials of Critical Care Nursing

Author: Kathleen Perrin

Publisher: Pearson

Published: 2017-04-27

Total Pages: 640

ISBN-13: 9780134146348

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This title is appropriate for all baccalaureate-level courses in critical care and advanced adult or medical surgical nursing, as well as for hospital orientation programs for beginning critical care nurses. An introduction to critical care that helps nurses deliver safe, effective care that optimizes patients' outcome Understanding the Essentials of Critical Care Nursing provides novice critical care nurses with a firm foundation so that they are able to understand the complexities of care; deliver safe, effective care; and begin their transition to expert nurses. It identifies concepts and techniques that are unique to critical care nursing and focuses on the essentials of providing care to patients with disorders that are commonly seen in critical care settings. Evidence-based practices, safety initiatives, commonly used medications, and leading technologies for providing better care are highlighted throughout the book. The Third Edition includes current recommendations for practice as well as new NCLEX�-style questions and analytical Why/Why Not features that spark critical thinking and test readers' understanding. By concentrating on the problems that the new critical care nurse is most likely to encounter, the text establishes the groundwork students need to become increasingly effective nurses capable of offering advanced care.


Critical Care Transport

Critical Care Transport

Author: American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS),

Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Learning

Published: 2017-03-20

Total Pages: 1038

ISBN-13: 1284146197

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Welcome to the gold standard in critical care transport training. Published in conjunction with the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS) and the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP), and endorsed by the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) and the International Association of Flight and Critical Care Providers (IAFCCP), Critical Care Transport, Second Edition, offers cutting-edge content relevant to any health care provider training in critical care transport. Authored by leading critical care professionals from across the country, Critical Care Transport, Second Edition, contains state-of-the-art information on ground and flight transport that aligns with the latest evidence-based medicine and practices. Content includes information specific to prehospital critical care transport, such as flight physiology, lab analysis, hemodynamic monitoring, and specialized devices such as the intra-aortic balloon pump. Standard topics such as airway management, tra


Quick Reference to Critical Care

Quick Reference to Critical Care

Author: Nancy H. Diepenbrock

Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

Published: 2011-02-15

Total Pages: 416

ISBN-13: 1608314642

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What began as a compilation of author notes from a real critical care hospital practice setting is now a pocket-sized powerhouse for critical care nurses and students! Quick Reference to Critical Care, 4th edition, provides thoroughly updated critical care content and updated cross-references with page numbers for even quicker reference and ease of use. Information is organized by body system, with each part presented alphabetically for fast, easy access. Full of fast facts, mnemonics, and over 200 images and tables!