High acuity nursing / Pamela Stinson Kidd, Kathleen Dorman Wagner.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Part I: Physiologic and psychosocial comfort
Module 1. Caring for the Critically Ill Patient: Patient, Family, and Nursing Considerations / Pamela Stinson Kidd
Module 2. Acute Pain in the High Acuity Patient / Susan K. Seely, Kathleen Dorman Wagner, Andrea Chisholm and Carol Metcalf

Part II: Respiration and ventilation
Module 3. Respiratory Process / Kathleen Dorman Wagner
Module 4. Arterial Blood Gas Analysis / Kathleen Dorman Wagner and Linda M. Holtzclaw
Module 5. Mechanical Ventilation / Kathleen Dorman Wagner
Module 6. Nursing Care of the Patient with Altered Respiratory Function / Kathleen Dorman Wagner

Part III: Cellular oxygenation
Module 7. Oxygenation / Karen L. Johnson
Module 8. Shock States / Karen L. Johnson
Module 9. Multiple Organ Dysfunction Syndrome / Pamela Stinson Kidd
Module 10. Nursing Care of the Patient with Altered Cellular Oxygenation / Pamela Stinson Kidd

Part IV: Perfusion
Module 11. Perfusion / James P. McGraw and Pamela Stinson Kidd
Module 12. Hemodynamic Monitoring / Paula Hogsten.

Part V: Neurologic
Module 15. Responsiveness
Module 16. Altered cerebral perfusion
Module 17. Nursing care of the patient with brain attack
Module 18. Spinal cord injury
Module 19. Nursing care of the patient with spinal cord injury

Part VI: Nutrition/metabolic
Module 20. Metabolic responses
Module 21. Altered immune function
Module 22. Organ transplantation
Module 23. Acute hepatic dysfunction
Module 24. Altered glucose metabolism
Module 25. Acute pancreatic dysfunction
Module 26. Acute renal dysfunction
Module 27. Nursing care of the patient with nutrition/metabolism problems

Part VII: Injury
Module 28. Complex wound management
Module 29. Acute burn injury
Module 30. Trauma assessment and resuscitation
Module 31. Nursing care of the patient with acute injury

Part VIII: Life span: special needs
Module 32: Nursing care of the acutely III pediatric patient
Module 33: Nursing care of the acutely III obstetric patient
Module 34: Nursing care of the acutely III elderly patient.