Product Code: 128250
Advanced Critical Care Nursing, 2nd Ed.
Learn to effectively address life-threatening and potentially life-threatening patient conditions, with Advanced Critical Care Nursing, 2nd Edition. Endorsed by the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses (AACN), this comprehensive, nursing-focused text centers on the clinical reasoning process as it helps you comprehend, analyze, synthesize, and apply advanced critical care knowledge and concepts. The book is organized within the structure of body systems along with synthesis chapters that address patient conditions involving multiple body systems. Numerous illustrations and graphs plus unfolding case studies further aid your understanding and help you apply text content. This must-have resource is dedicated to helping you oversee or care for critical care patients in any practice setting.
Key Features:
- Body systems organization emphasizes core systems and advanced concepts.
- Consistent chapter format features numerous illustrations, charts, and graphs in each chapter to enhance understanding.
- Synthesis chapters address patient conditions that involve multiple body systems - a common occurrence in critical care nursing.
- Unfolding case studies with decision point questions are included at the end of all disorders chapters, providing opportunities to apply advanced critical care content to actual scenarios.
- Medication tables incorporate common classifications of critical care drugs for specific disorders, including drugs, actions, and special considerations.
Table of Contents:
Unit I: Introduction
The Evolving Critical Care Environment
Unit II: Cardiac
Advanced Dysrhythmias
Acute Coronary Syndromes
Heart Failure
Cardiac Surgery
Valvular Disease and Surgery
Vascular Emergencies
Heart and Lung Transplantation
Unit III: Pulmonary
Acute Respiratory Failure and Acute Lung Injury
Mechanical Ventilation and Weaning
Thoracic Surgery
Unit IV: Neurologic
Head Injury and Dysfunction
Cerebrovascular Disorders
Spinal Cord Injury
Special Neurologic Patient Populations
Unit V: Gastrointestinal
Gastrointestinal Bleeding
Liver Dysfunction and Failure
Pancreatitis
The Gut in Critical Illness
Liver, Kidney, and/or Pancreas Transplantation
Unit VI: Renal
Electrolyte Emergencies
Complex Acid-Base Disorders and Associated Electrolyte Imbalances
Acute Renal Failure
Unit VII: Endocrine
Glycemic Control
Pituitary, Thyroid, and Adrenal Disorders
Unit VIII: Hematologic
Blood Conservation / Blood Component Replacement
Coagulopathies
Unit IX: Multisystem
Shock and End Points of Resuscitation
Optimizing Hemodynamics: Strategies for Fluid and Medication Titration in Shock
Trauma and Mass-Casualty Competencies
Systemic Inflammatory Response Syndrome and Multiple Organ Dysfunction Syndrome
Unit X: Special Patient Populations
Caring for the Immunocompromised Patient
Caring for the Patient in the Immediate Postoperative Period
Caring for the Critically Ill Pregnant Patient
Caring for the Pediatric Patient in an Adult Critical Care Unit
Caring for the Critically Ill Elderly Patient
Caring for the Critically Ill Patient with a Neuropsychiatric Disorder
Caring for the Bariatric Patient
Unit XI: Special Considerations in Critical Care
Pain and Sedation
Comorbid Conditions
Oncologic Emergencies
Chemical Dependency
End-of-Life Care
Appendix A: Answers to Decision Point Questions
ISBN #: 9781455758753
Authors: V. Good, P. Kirkwood
