Monitoring the critically ill patient [E-book]

Essential Clinical Skills for Nurses series is aimed at students and newly qualified nurses on general wards. Provides nurses with the skills and knowledge to monitor patients at risk and provide safe, effective care Includes step-by-step clinical guidelines and real-life scenarios. Chapters cover management of the deteriorating patient, assessment of the critically ill patient, and monitoring respiratory, cardiovascular, neurological, renal, gastrointestinal, hepatic, endocrine and nutritional status, monitoring temperature, pain, patients receiving blood transfusions, patients with infection and related systemic inflammatory response, monitoring the critically ill pregnant patient, critically ill children, monitoring during transport, and record keeping.