Manual of Critical Care Nursing Author:Jennifer Hebra, Merrily A. Kuhn, Merrily Mathew Kuhn This current source of hands-on critical care nursing information provides system-by-system guidance for nursing professionals. Pathophysiologic rationales are included throughout, so that the nurse learns not only how to care for a patient but also why a particular approach to care is used. Divided into two units, the text offers an organi... more »zed presentation of essential material. Part I, Methods and Approaches in Critical Care, addresses infection, psychosocial issues, changes in nutritional requirements, and trauma. Part II, Disorders in the Patient in Critical Care, examines critical care requirements by body system. Coverage includes etiology, assessment (including signs and symptoms and lab tests with their pathophysiologic rationales), patient management (with important nursing diagnoses), discharge planning, and medications. A variety of helpful appendixes address the following: modalities used in critical care, special procedures (ventilator use, hemodynamic lines, renal therapies), Advanced Cardiac Life Support algorithms, a body surface area nomogram, scoring systems (Apache III, Glasgow Coma Scale, trauma), and dysrhythmias.« less