Nursing Care and ECMO

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Mossadegh, Chirine (Editor), Combes, Alain (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Critical care medicine.; Respiratory organs > Diseases.; Nursing.; Cardiac surgery.; Medicine & Public Health.; Intensive / Critical Care Medicine.; Cardiac Surgery.; Pneumology/Respiratory System.

This book explores the unique aspects involved in the management of ECMO patients such as physiopathology and indications, setting up the device, monitoring ECMO and the patient, troubleshooting, ethical aspects and rehabilitation. For the past eight years, management of acute heart failure and Acut...

Table of Contents:

• I. Medical Aspects
• ECMO definition and principles
• Indications and physiopathology
• II. Nursing care
• Preparing the patient and the ECMO device
• Monitoring the ECMO
• Monitoring the patient preventing complications and accidents
• Mobilizing the patient
• Transport under ECMO
• Weaning process
• How to manage incidents
• Psychological approach of the patient and its family
• Training of nurses: initial and continuous education.