Critical Care Nursing Secrets

ISBN: 1560534540

Author: Puntillo RN DNSc FAAN, Kathleen A.

Condition: New

Using the popular question-and-answer format of The Secrets Series, this practical resource offers tips, answers, and secrets on caring for patients in an ICU or critical care setting. Chapters cover such important areas as arrhythmias, blood pressure monitoring, cardiac output monitoring, cardiac surgery patients, transplant patients, acute myocardial infarction, pulmonary hypertension, airway management, respiratory failure, oncologic emergencies, pain management, and much more. Follows the question-and-answer format of The Secrets Series Serves as a useful resource for practicing nurses in a critical care setting 72 chapters by leading experts in critical care nursing Covers end-of-life and family issues such as brain death and organ donation.