A Nurse's Survival Guide to Critical Care - Updated Edition

Section 1 - General principles of critical care 1.1: Introduction to critical care nursing 1.2:    Health and Safety 1.3: Emergencies and life-threatening conditions 1.4:    Life threatening complications/ outcomes Section 2 - Patient assessment and investigations 2.1: Identification of patient needs/problems 2.2: Assessment 2.3: Haemodynamic monitoring 2.4: Diagnostic procedures Section 3 - Critical care interventions 3.1: Medium-technology life-support interventions 3.2: High-technology life-support interventions 3.3: Caring for a critical care patient 3.4: Intubation and ventilation 3.5: Transfer of critical care patients Section 4 - Common conditions/reasons for admission 4.1: Physiological processes common to all medical and surgical conditions 4.2: Neurological 4.3: Endocrine disorders 4.4: Respiratory 4.5: Cardiovascular 4.6: Renal 4.7: Gastrointestinal (GIT) 4.8: Immunological 4.9: Burns 4.10: Poisoning/overdose Section 5 - Psychological and ethical care 5.1: Mental effects of critical care 5.2: Death and dying in critical care 5.3: Professional practice issues Section 6 - Pharmacology 6.1: Medication management 6.2:     Pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics 6.3: Classification of drugs used in critical care 6.4: Drug calculations 6.5: Nurse prescribing References Further Reading Appendix 1 Units of measurement Appendix 2 Normal values Appendix 3 Drug measurement and calculations Glossary Index