Critical Care Nursing -E-Book VBK, 5th Edition

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SECTION 1: SCOPE OF CRITICAL CARE

1. Scope of critical care practice (p.3)
2. Systems and resources (p.18)
3. Quality and safety (p.47)
4. Ethical issues in critical care (p.78)

SECTION 2: PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE OF CRITICAL CARE

5. Essential nursing care of the critically ill patient (p.105)
6. Patient comfort and psychological care (p.147)
7. Family and cultural care of the critically ill patient (p.180)
8. Recovery and rehabilitation (p.217)
9. Cardiovascular assessment and monitoring (p.249)
10. Cardiovascular alterations and management (p.288)
11. Cardiac rhythm assessment and management (p.332)
12. Cardiac surgery and transplantation (p.391)
13. Respiratory assessment and monitoring (p. 439)
14. Respiratory alterations and management (p.477)
15. Ventilation and oxygenation management (p.521)
16. Neurological assessment and monitoring (p.567)
17. Neurological alterations and management (p.605)
18. Support of renal function (p.644)
19. Nutrition assessment and therapeutic management (p.681)
20. Gastrointestinal, metabolic and liver alterations (p.715)
21. Pathophysiology and management of shock (p.759)
22. Multiple organ dysfunction syndrome (p.801)

SECTION 3: SPECIALTY PRACTICE

23. Emergency presentations (p.827)
24. Trauma management (p.883)
25. Resucitation (p.926)
26. Postanesthesia recovery (p.953)
27. Paediatric considerations in critical care (p.983)
28. Pregnancy and postpartum considerations (p.1024)
29. Organ donation and transplantation (p.1072)

Leanne Aitken, RN, PhD, GCertMgt, GDipScMed(ClinEpi), GCertAcadPrac, BHSc(Nurs)Hons, FACCCN, FACN, FAAN, Life Member – ACCCN, Professor of Critical Care, School of Health Sciences, City, University of London, UK ; Professor of Critical Care Nursing, School of Nursing and Midwifery, and Menzies Health Institute Queensland, Griffith University, Qld, Australia, Andrea Marshall, RN, PhD, MN(Research), Grad Cert Ed Studies (Higher Ed), BN, IC Cert, FACCCN, FACN, Life Member – ACCCN, Professor of Intensive Care Nursing, School of Nursing and Midwifery and Menzies Health Institute Queensland, Griffith University, QLD, Australia and Thomas Buckley, RN, PhD, GradCertHPol, MN(Research), BSc(Health)Hons, Cert(ICU), Member ACCCN, Associate Professor Acute and Critical Care Nursing, and Deputy Head of School, Susan Wakil School of Nursing and Midwifery, University of Sydney, Australia