Manual of Critical Care Nursing: Nursing Interventions and Collaborative Management 7th Edition Marianne Saunorus Baird

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• ISBN 10: 0323187897
• ISBN 13: 9780323187893
• Author: Marianne Saunorus Baird
  

The compact, yet comprehensive, Manual of Critical Care Nursing: Nursing Interventions and Collaborative Management, 7th Edition is your students’a goto reference forto help you provide safe, highquality nursing care in the clinicalcritical care settings. Written in an abbreviated outline format, this easytouse Manual presents essential information on more than 75 disorders and conditions, as well as concepts relevant to caring for all critically ill patients and functioning in the critical care environment. Awardwinning clinical nurse specialist Marianne Baird separates the content first by body system and then by disorder, with each disorder including a brief description of pathophysiology, assessment, diagnostic testing, collaborative management, nursing diagnoses, desired outcomes, nursing interventions, and patient teaching and rehabilitation. With the latest NANDAI nursing diagnoses and new sections on Bariatric Considerations and Caring for the Elderly, this practical manual is designed to help critical care nurses and nursing students better care for any critically ill patient.

Table contents:

Part 1.  General concepts in caring for the critically ill

1. Acid-base imbalances
2. Altered mental status
3. Fluid and electrolyte disturbances
4. Hemodynamic monitoring
5. Mechanical ventilation
6. Nutrition support
7. Pain
8. Prolonged immobility
9. Sedation and neuromuscular blockade
10. Wound and skin care
11. Selected references

Part 2.  Managing the critical care environment

Bioterrorism

Emerging infections

Emotional and spiritual support of the patient and significant others

Ethical considerations in critical care

Patient safety

Selected references

Part 3.  Trauma

Major trauma

Abdominal trauma

Acute cardiac tamponade

Acute spinal cord injury

Burns

Compartment syndrome/ischemic myositis

Drowning

Pelvic fractures

Renal and lower urinary tract trauma

Thoracic trauma

Traumatic brain injury

Selected references

Part 4.  Respiratory disorders

Respiratory assessment: General

Acute asthma exacerbation

Acute respiratory distress syndrome

Acute pneumonia

Acute respiratory failure

Pneumothorax

Pulmonary embolism

Pulmonary hypertension

Selected references

Part 5.  Cardiac and vascular disorders

Cardiovascular assessment: General

Heart failure

Acute coronary syndrome

Acute infective endocarditis

Acute pericarditis

Aortic aneurysm/dissection

Cardiogenic shock

Cardiomyopathy

Dysrhythmias and conduction disturbances

Hypertensive emergencies

Peripheral vascular disease

Valvular heart disease

Selected references

Part 6.  Kidney injury

Genitourinary assessment: General

Acute kidney injury

Continuous renal replacement therapies

Selected references

Part 7.  Neurologic disorders

General neurologic assessment

Brain death

Cerebral aneurysm and subarachnoid hemorrhage

Care of the patient after intracranial surgery

Meningitis

Neurodegenerative and neuromuscular disorders

Status epilepticus

Stroke: Acute ischemic and hemorrhagic

Selected references

Part 8.  Endocrinologic disorders

Endocrine assessment

Acute adrenal insufficiency (adrenal crisis)

Diabetes insipidus

Hyperglycemia

Myxedema coma

Syndrome of inappropriate antidiuretic hormone

Thyrotoxicosis crisis (thyroid storm)

Selected references

Part 9.  Gastrointestinal disorders

Gastrointestinal assessment: General

Acute gastrointestinal bleeding

Acute pancreatitis

Enterocutaneous fistula

Hepatic failure

Peritonitis

Selected references

Part 10.  Hematologic/immunologic disorders

General hematology assessment

Anaphylactic shock

Profound anemia and hemolytic crisis

Bleeding and thrombotic disorders

Selected references

Part 11.  Complex special situations

Abdominal hypertension and abdominal compartment syndrome

Drug overdose

Stimulants

High-risk obstetrics: Hypertension in pregnancy

Oncologic emergencies

Organ transplantation

Sepsis, septic shock, systemic inflammatory response syndrome, and multiple organ dysfunction syndrome

Selected references

Heart and breath sounds

Glasgow coma scale

Cranial nerves Assessment and dysfunctions

Major deep tendon muscle stretch reflexes

Major superficial cutaneous reflexes

Inotropic and vasoactive medication infusions

Sample relaxation technique

Abbreviations used in this manual

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