Critical care nursing continues to be a unique and challenging specialty. The critical care nurse must of necessity be well versed in both professionally oriented matters and pathophysiologically based material. The challenge for us has been to combine these two aspects successfully to arrive at a broader perspective of critical care nursing.
This manual represents a three-year effort to standardize basic life support skill (BLSS) performance through the definition of skills and corresponding proficiency testing criteria. The work entailed the interaction of an emergency physician, a fire chief and training officer, an ambulance owener, and more recently an EMT instructor with a superb artistic talent.
Contents: 1. The great plague of the zoth Century 2. How not to get herat disease 3. Tracking down the cholesterol connection 4. A spectrum of ills and remedies 5. New-found prowess of the surgeon 6. How to get over a broken heart
The generous act of giving me the privilege to celebrate with my friends an eventful date in my personal and professional life deserves my deep gratitude to those who made this meeting possible, and also to a friend who has talked about me with so much charm and flattery.
If the most up-to-date CT and MRI techniques and aquipment were equally available, MRI would be the preferred initial investigation for almost all the clinical situations with which this book is concerned. Comparative studies between CT and MRI have concluded that, in general, MRI is more sensitive by a considerable margin, though not always more specific. With improvements in understanding and…
Written by nurses, for nurses, this book provides essential information for dealing with the increased demands and responsibilities of trauma nursing. Covers nursing responsibillities during initial resucitation through to the intensive care unit, provides in-depth coverage of individual injuries. Includes anatomy, physiology, pathophysiology, mechanisms of injury, complications, and psycholo…
Contents: 1. Assessment of the Whole Person 2. Physical Examination 3. Integration of the Health Assessment
Rehabilitation medicine is a relatively new specialty, especially in the United States. The number of practitions is small and the presence of a rehabilitation meddicine curriculum in medical schools remains limited. As a consequence, the philosophy, techniques, and contributions of rehabilitation medicine are widely misunderstood or simply unknown to many private practitioners and other health…
Luckmann and Sorensen's Medical-Surgical Nursing : Psychophysiologic Approach, 4th edition, presents up-to-date care of the adulth client. On the "cutting edge" of current scientific, nursing and medical knowledge, this new edition of the book retains the traditional strengths of previous editions : comprehensiveness, depth, authority, and strong pathophysiology. Improvements in the discussion …