Treating the critically ill patient
By: Philip Jevon ; consulting editor, Jagtar Singh Pooni.
Contributors: Pooni, Jagtar Singh.
Series: Essential clinical skills for nurses
Publisher: Blackwell Pub.
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Oxford; Malden, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 189
ISBN-13: 9781405141727
Subjects: Intensive care nursing; Critical care medicine; Critical Illness -- therapy; Critical Care -- methods; Critical Illness -- nursing
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Overview of treating the critically ill patient; title: Treating a patient with airway obstruction; title: Treating a patient with compromised breathing; title: Treating a patient with hypotension; title: Treating a patient with a bradycardia or tachycardia; title: Treating a patient with altered consciousness level; title: Treating a patient with oliguria; title: Treating a patient with an abnormal temperature; title: Pain management in the critically ill patient; title: Ethical issues in critical care; title: Principles of good record keeping.