Basics of Anesthesia: with Evolve Website Author by:
Robert K. Stoelting MD
Ronald D. Miller MD
Basics of Anesthesia: with Evolve Website Book Description
In full color with new topics including Medical Informatics, Basic Cardiopulmonary Physiology,Hemostasis,and
Widely acknowledged as the foremost introductory text, this latest edition provides the most authoritative and complete overview of anesthesia theory and practice and continues to serve as an excellent primer on the scope and practice of anesthesiology. Superbly edited by two of the foremost experts in the field, the new edition is presented in full color and includes updated information on new and rapidly changing areas in anesthesia practice. The new topics include Approach to Learning Anesthesia; Medical Informatics; Basic Cardiopulmonary Physiology; Hemostasis; Congenital Heart Disease; Trauma; Bioterrorism; and Medical Direction in the Operating Room.
Comprehensive coverage of the basic science and clinical topics in anesthesiologyI ncludes pathophysiology, pharmacology, regional anesthesia, anesthetic management, and special problems and patient groupsNumerous figures and tables throughout the book condense complex material for easier retentionConcise writing style facilitates learning and review of content
Now in full color throughout
All chapters rigorously updated to reflect the latest advances in practice
New Topics: Approach to learning Anesthesia, Medical Informatics, Basic Cardiopulmonary Physiology, Hemostasis, Congenital Heart Disease, Trauma, Bioterrorism, Medical Direction in the Operating Room, and more
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Fundamentals of Nursing Author by:
Patricia A. Potter PhD RN FAAN CMAC
Anne Griffin Perry RN MSN EdD FAAN
Fundamentals of Nursing Book Description
The solid base nurses need for their education, complete with the principles, concepts, and skills required in both the classroom and in practice
Fundamentals of Nursing Book Description
Comprehensive, logically organized, and now easier to read, this market-leading fundamentals text provides you with up-to-date coverage of nursing principles, concepts, and skills. The book's nursing process framework, critical thinking emphasis, health promotion focus, and thorough coverage of acute and continuing care in all settings help prepare you for nursing practice today. This new edition addresses the increased focus on evidence-based practice and new guidelines for safe patient handling. Plus, a new, cutting-edge chapter on Surviving Cancer helps prepare you to address the unique health care needs of patients who have survived cancer, but still face the physical and emotional after-effects of the illness and its therapy.
The 5-step nursing process provides a consistent framework for clinical chapters.UNIQUE! Critical Thinking in each clinical chapter includes Critical Thinking Models demonstrating the application of the nursing process and critical thinking.More than 60 skills are generously illustrated and provide clear, step-by-step instructions for practicing safe nursing care.Unexpected Outcomes and Related Interventions for skills alert you to possible problems and appropriate action.Procedural Guidelines boxes provide streamlined, step-by-step instructions for performing very basic skills.More than 20 care plans demonstrate the application of the 5-step nursing process to individual patient problems to help you understand how a plan is developed and how to evaluate care.Clients in the care plan extend to the critical thinking activities at the end of each chapter.Over 20 concept maps visually demonstrate planning care for clients with multiple nursing diagnoses.Planning sections include sections on Goals and Outcomes, Setting Priorities, and Collaborative Care to help you plan and prioritize comprehensive client care.Implementation sections include health promotion, acute care, and continuing care to prepare you for all levels of care in all settings.UNIQUE! Safety Alerts provide information and techniques to ensure client and nurse safety based on The Joint Commission's list of National Patient Safety Goals.Cultural Aspect of Care boxes summarize cultural considerations related to the chapter topic and provide practical guidelines for how to meet clients' cultural needs and preferences.Client Teaching boxes help you plan effective teaching by first identifying outcomes, then developing strategies on how to teach, and, finally, implementing measures to evaluate learning.Focus on Older Adult boxes highlight key aspects of nursing assessment and care for this population.Key concepts neatly summarize the most important content for each chapter to help you review and evaluate learning.
UNIQUE! An ESL/Readability specialist has edited each chapter to streamline the text and improve readability.UNIQUE! Companion CD, included with the text, provides you with interactive learning activities, searchable audio glossary, Spanish/English audio glossary, Butterfield's Fluids & Electrolytes Tutorial, test-taking skills, and NCLEX® exam-style review questions.UNIQUE! Evidence Based Practice boxes summarize the results of a research study and describe the difference the study has made in nursing practice.Evidence-Based Practice chapter helps you understand how nursing research serves as the basis for determining best practice, and the critical importance of this continually evolving dynamic.UNIQUE! Surviving Cancer chapter prepares you to address the unique health care needs of patients who have survived cancer, but still face the physical and emotional after-effects of the illness and its therapy.NCLEX® examination-style review questions for each chapter include new alternate-item format questions, as well as rationales for all answer choices.Delegation coverage is enhanced, noting which skills can and cannot be delegated, and indicating related tasks that should be delegated. To help you apply this information, many chapters incorporate delegation considerations into the chapter case study and address them in the critical thinking and NCLEX® exam-style review questions.Nursing Assessment Questions boxes help you learn to effectively phrase questions for clients.Expanded coverage of informatics familiarizes you with the use of information technology in documenting care and researching best practices.UNIQUE! Critical Thinking in Practice sections at the end of each chapter provide questions that require you to apply knowledge, often to the case study detailed in the chapter's care plan.New Safe Patient Handling Guidelines are included in the Safety chapter.NOC outcomes, as well as NIC interventions, are incorporated in care plans to reflect the standard used by institutions nationwide.Key terms are conveniently placed at the beginning of each chapter and include page references where definitions can be found.The companion Evolve website offers free downloadable skills nursing video clips and audio chapter summaries.
Fundamentals of Nursing Book Details
Hardcover: 1824 pages
Publisher: Mosby; 7 edition (December 5, 2008)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0323067840
ISBN-13: 978-0323067843
Clinical Anesthesiology, 4th Edition book Description
Clinical Anesthesiology integrates succinct coverage of basic principles and clinical considerations in the anesthetic management of patients. It features up-to-date discussion of all relevant areas within anesthesiology, including equipment, pharmacology, regional anesthesia, pathophysiology, pain management, anesthetic management, and critical care. Extensive use of case discussions, figures, and tables in each chapter promotes application of the concepts to practice.
Clinical Anesthesiology, 4th Edition Back Cover
Key Benefit: This popular book combines succinct, clinically oriented coverage of the basic science underlying anesthesiology with case studies illustrating important practical issues. Key Topics: This second edition features an extensively revised section on regional anesthesia and pain management as well as two new chapters. A second color has been introduced to highlight important features and key points in the book. Market:
All-in-One Care Planning Resource: Medical-Surgical, Pediatric, Maternity, and Psychiatric Nursing Care Plans
All-in-One Care Planning Resource: Medical-Surgical, Pediatric, Maternity, and Psychiatric Nursing Care Plans
Author by Pamela L. Swearingen RN
All-in-One Care Planning Resource: Medical-Surgical, Pediatric, Maternity, and Psychiatric Nursing Care Plans Book Description:
The most student-friendly and clinically relevant nursing care plan book with 101 nursing care plans for all core clinical areas
All-in-One Care Planning Resource: Medical-Surgical, Pediatric, Maternity, and Psychiatric Nursing Care Plans
Description
Unlike any other care plan book on the market, this resource contains selected care plans for pediatric, maternity, and psychiatric nursing in addition to medical-surgical nursing care plans for adult care. This is the only care planning resource that allows you to use one book throughout your nursing curriculum. Color-coded medical-surgical, maternity, pediatric, and psychiatric sections help you quickly find each content area while giving the book a full-color look and feel.
Clinical experts update each subject area to ensure the most current, accurate, and clinically relevant content available.Each care plan employs a consistent format of Overview/Pathophysiology, Health Care Setting, Assessment, Diagnostic Tests, Nursing Diagnosis, Desired Outcomes, Interventions with Rationales, and Patient-Family Teaching and Discharge Planning.An open and attractive two-color design facilitates quick and easy retrieval of information. Nursing interventions and rationales are listed in a clear two-column format to make the information more accessible.Related NIC intervention and NOC outcome labels are listed for each nursing diagnosis.The Patient-Family Teaching and Discharge Planning section highlights key patient education topics and list resources for further information.Health Care Setting is specified for each care plan, since different conditions are treated in various settings such as hospital, primary care, long-term care facility, community, and home care.Outcome criteria with specific timelines enable nurses to set realistic goals for nursing outcomes and provide quality, cost-effective care.Detailed rationales for each nursing intervention help you to apply concepts to clinical practice.Includes the most recent NANDA nursing diagnosis. Separate care plans on Pain and Palliative and End-of-Life Care focus on palliative care for patients with terminal illnesses, as well as relief of acute and chronic pain.
All-in-One Care Planning Resource: Medical-Surgical, Pediatric, Maternity, and Psychiatric Nursing Care Plans
A new "Overview/Pathophysiology" heading helps you easily locate this key content.Nursing diagnoses listed in order of importance/physiologic need helps you learn about prioritization.All content has been thoroughly updated to cover the latest clinical developments, including the most recent JNC7 hypertension guidelines, the latest breast cancer screening and treatment information, revised cholesterol parameters, new drug therapies, and much more.Patient teaching content and abbreviations have been thoroughly revised to reflect the latest JCAHO guidelines.Expanded and clarified rationales help you understand each intervention more clearly.
All-in-One Care Planning Resource: Medical-Surgical, Pediatric, Maternity, and Psychiatric Nursing Care Plans Book Details
Assessment Made Incredibly Easy!
Editor by Springhouse
Assessment Made Incredibly Easy Book Description
Completely updated, and now in full color, this Fourth Edition presents assessment skills in the reader-friendly Incredibly Easy! format that makes learning fun. Using light-hearted humor, the text provides the know-how nurses need to obtain pertinent health histories, perform physical examinations, and recognize normal and abnormal findings. Abundant full-color illustrations, charts, memory joggers, and other special features help nurses master Nursing assessment techniques and remember key information. This edition includes additional coverage of obesity. A new logo, Handle with care, spotlights the unique needs of pediatric, geriatric, and bariatric patients. The Practice makes perfect self-test includes updated NCLEX®-style questions with rationales for correct and incorrect answers. A companion Website will offer ancillary materials such as an image bank and printable study cards.
Assessment Made Incredibly Easy! Book Details
Paperback: 416 pages
Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins; Fourth Edition edition (January 1, 2008)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0781779103
ISBN-13: 978-0781779104
Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.5 x 1 inches
Management of Acute Coronary Syndromes Author by :
Eli Gelfand
Christopher Cannon
Management of Acute Coronary Syndromes Book Description
Acute Coronary Syndrome covers the spectrum of clinical conditions ranging from unstable angina to non-ST elevation myocardial infarction and ST elevation myocardial infarction. These life-threatening disorders are a major cause of emergency medical care, hospitalization and mortality. Management of Acute Coronary Syndromes is designed to provide busy clinicians with a comprehensive guide to the investigation, diagnosis and treatment of these syndromes. It encompasses the latest technologies, including the use of biomarkers and non-invasive imaging procedures.
For each condition, the reader is taken through all of the therapeutic options available; in each case the indications and contraindications are evaluated in the light of the latest clinical trials. Potential complications are dealt with in a similar fashion, permitting the reader to anticipate and manage problems as they arise. The authors also present evidence-based recommendations for long-term care of at-risk patients, encompassing pharmacologic therapies and lifestyle management.
The book concludes with a comprehensive collection of appendices that include treatment algorithms, risk scores and a summary of the latest management guidelines.
Management of Acute Coronary Syndromes is the most up to date and comprehensive evidence-based guide to managing acute coronary syndromes, in a compact and usable format. It will be of interest to busy specialist physicians in cardiovascular medicine, cardiac and vascular surgery, and critical care, as well as primary care physicians and hospitalists who care for patients with these syndromes.
Management of Acute Coronary Syndromes From the Back Cover
Acute coronary syndromes cover the spectrum of clinical conditions ranging from unstable angina to non-ST elevation myocardial infarction and ST elevation myocardial infarction. These life-threatening disorders are a major cause of emergency medical care, hospitalization and mortality. Management of Acute Coronary Syndromes is designed to provide busy clinicians with a comprehensive guide to the investigation, diagnosis and treatment of these syndromes. It encompasses the latest technologies, including the use of biomarkers and non-invasive imaging procedures.
For each condition, the reader is taken through all of the therapeutic options available; in each case the indications and contraindications are evaluated in the light of the latest clinical trials. Potential complications are dealt with in a similar fashion, permitting the reader to anticipate and manage problems as they arise. The authors also present evidence-based recommendations for long-term care of at-risk patients, encompassing pharmacologic therapies and lifestyle management.
The book concludes with a comprehensive collection of appendices that include treatment algorithms, risk scores and a summary of the latest management guidelines.
Comprehensive review of the evidence base for acute coronary syndrome
Practical guidance on therapeutic strategies for principal clinical problems
Clear description of potential complications and how best to manage them
Management of Acute Coronary Syndromes is the most up to date and comprehensive evidence-based guide to managing acute coronary syndromes, in a compact and usable format. It will be of interest to busy specialist physicians in cardiovascular medicine, cardiac and vascular surgery, and critical care, as well as primary care physicians and hospitalists who care for patients with these syndromes.
Management of Acute Coronary Syndromes Book Details
Complications of Myocardial Infarction Author by:
Stuart J. Hutchison MD FRCPC FACC FAHA FASE FSCMR FSCCT ()
Complications of Myocardial Infarction Book Description
Preempt the many complications of myocardial infarction
1.2 million myocardial infarctions occurred last year in the U.S., and 480,000 patients died following complications of infarction. Now, you can detect and treat the many complications associated with myocardial infarction in time to save many more patients. This title in the brand-new Clinical Diagnostic Imaging Atlas Series offers you authoritative guidance from a well-known cardiologist and imaging expert about when and how to perform the latest diagnostic imaging tests, interpret the results, and effectively treat the emergency. Detailed discussions of hot topics, full-color illustrations, and a DVD of procedural video clips, animations, and downloadable image libraries help you provide fast, appropriate treatment for each challenging case you face
Offers detailed advice on when and how to screen for the most prevalent but often difficult-to-diagnose complications of myocardial infarction to help you improve care and increase survival rates.
Discusses the hottest topics in myocardial infarction, including cardiogenic shock . left ventricle remodeling . thrombi . right ventricle infarction . free wall rupture . false aneurysms . tamponade . ventricular septal rupture . papillary muscle rupture . and more that prepare you to better diagnose and manage whatever you see.
Presents 70 fully illustrated case presentations with teaching points that make information easy to understand and digest.
Addresses the advantages and limitations of chest radiology, transthoracic and transesophageal echocardiography, cardiac CT, MR, angiography, and nuclear cardiology techniques so you can quickly determine the best imaging approach.
Includes supporting evidence and current AHA/ACC guidelines for more accurate interpretations of your imaging findings.
Uses a consistent, easy-to-follow chapter format that includes topic overview, an outline of imaging/diagnostic options, and case-based examples to make reference easy.
Provides more than 400 full-color illustrations for expert visual guidance.
Includes a bonus DVD containing hundreds of video clips of techniques and animations that show you what to look for and how to proceed as well as downloadable image libraries for use in electronic presentations.
Complications of Myocardial Infarction Book Details
The ECG in Acute Myocardial Infarction and Unstable Angina
The ECG in Acute Myocardial Infarction and Unstable Angina Author by:
H.J.J Wellens
Anton M. Gorgels
P. Doevendans
The ECG in Acute Myocardial Infarction and Unstable Angina Book Description
This volume, written by the leaders in the field, will provide a practical and comprehensive overview of the electrocardiogram (ECG). The ECG remains the most accessible and inexpensive diagnostic tool to evaluate the patient presenting with symptoms suggestive of acute myocardial ischemia. The ECG in Acute Myocardial Infarction and Unstable Angina, written by Drs. Hein Wellens, Anton Gorgels and Pieter Doevendans, is an excellent reference for any cardiac electrophysiologist, cardiologist, internist or emergency room physician
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