Monitoring the critically ill patient /

• Main Author: Jevon, Philip
• Other Authors: Ewens, Beverley
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Chichester, West Sussex : Wiley-Blackwell, 2012.
• Edition: 3rd ed.
• Series: Essential clinical skills for nurses.
• Subjects: Patient monitoring.; Critical care medicine.; MEDICAL > Critical Care.; MEDICAL > Nursing > Critical & Intensive Care.; Monitoring, Physiologic > methods.; Critical Care > methods.; Critical Illness.; Electronic books.

This referenced text assumes no prior knowledge and equips students and newly-qualified staff with the clinical skills and knowledge they need to confidently monitor patients at risk, identify key priorities, and provide prompt and effective care.

Table of Contents:

• Recognition & management of the deteriorating patient
• Assessment of the critically ill patient
• Monitoring respiratory function
• Monitoring cardiovascular function 1 : ECG monitoring
• Monitoring cardiovascular function 2 haemodynamic monitoring
• Monitoring neurological function
• Monitoring renal function
• Monitoring gastrointestinal function
• Monitoring hepatic function
• Monitoring endocrine function
• Monitoring nutritional status
• Monitoring temperature
• Monitoring pain
• Monitoring a patient receiving a blood transfusion
• Monitoring the patient with infection and related systemic inflammatory response
• Monitoring the critically ill, pregnant patient
• Monitoring the critically ill child
• Monitoring during transport
• Record keeping.