Winter Trauma, An Issue of Critical Care Nursing Clinics

Winter Trauma, An Issue of Critical Care Nursing Clinics
Author: Margaret Ecklund
Publisher: Elsevier Health Sciences
Total Pages: 137
Release: 2012-12-28
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 1455747262

This issue of Critical Care Nursing Clinics, Guest Edited by Margaret M Ecklund, MS, RN, CCRN, ACNP-BC, will focus on Winter Health Challenges, with article topics including: Near Drowning and Multiple Organism Aspiration; Geriatric Perils: Falls and Complications; Vitamin D Deficiency; Gastroenteritis and Surgical Perils; Frostbite; Rural Trauma; Respiratory failure and adult influenza; RSV; Diabetes and Seasonal Depression; and Holiday Heart Disease.

Diabetes, An Issue of Critical Care Nursing Clinics

Diabetes, An Issue of Critical Care Nursing Clinics
Author: Celia Levesque
Publisher: Elsevier Health Sciences
Total Pages: 157
Release: 2013-03-28
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 1455771511

This issue of Critical Care Nursing Clinics, Guest Edited by Celia Levesque RN, MSN, NP-C, CNS-BC, CDE, BC-ADM, from MD Anderson, will focus on Diabetes. Article topics will include Management of Diabetes in the Clinical Setting, Hyperglycemia management after solid organ transplantation, Insulin therapy in the hospitalized patient, Limb salvage for Vetrans with diabetes, and Management of steroid induced hyperglycemia in the ICU.

Summer Issues and Accidents, An Issue of Critical Care Nursing Clinics

Summer Issues and Accidents, An Issue of Critical Care Nursing Clinics
Author: Stephen D. Krau
Publisher: Elsevier Health Sciences
Total Pages: 223
Release: 2013-06-28
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 1455771503

This issue of Critical Care Nursing Clinics, Guest Edited by Stephen D. Krau, PhD, RN, CNE, from Vanderbilt University, will focus on Summer Trauma. Article topics will include Tick bites, Rabies, Snake bites, West Nile Virus, Spider bites, Allergic Reactions to Bee and Wasp Stings, Heat Exhaustation and Stroke, Near Drowning, and Musculoskeletal Injuries.

Cardiac Review, An Issue of Critical Care Nursing Clinics

Cardiac Review, An Issue of Critical Care Nursing Clinics
Author: Bobbie Leeper
Publisher: Elsevier Health Sciences
Total Pages: 161
Release: 2011-12-28
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 1455709115

This issue of Critical Care Nursing Clinics, Guest Edited by Bobbi Leeper, MN, RN, CNS M-S, CCRN, at Baylor University Medical Center, provides review of Cardiac topics for the practicing nurse. Article topics include: Spectrum of Acute Coronary Syndromes; Mechanical Complications of AMI; Glucose Control in the Cardiovascular Patient; Pulmonary Hypertension; Pulmonary Problems in the Patient with Cardiovascular Disease; Stroke Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery; Surgery on Thoracic Aorta; Heart Valve Surgery; Complications of Cardiac Surgery; Electrolyte Disorders in the Cardiac Patient; and Cardiogenic Shock.

The Lungs in a Mechanical Ventilator Environment, An Issue of Critical Care Nursing Clinics

The Lungs in a Mechanical Ventilator Environment, An Issue of Critical Care Nursing Clinics
Author: Meredith Mealer
Publisher: Elsevier Health Sciences
Total Pages: 167
Release: 2012-09-28
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 1455743968

This issue of Critical Care Nursing Clinics will include articles on the following topics: Non-invasive ventilation; Modes of mechanical ventilation; Mechanical ventilation effect on heart/lung interactions; Effect of ventilation on the lungs; VAP; Liberation/weaning & Sedation/pain control; Self/unplanned extubation; Communication; recovery and rehab post ICU; Airway protection with aging; home ventilation; monitoring of the mechanical vent patient; and Dyspnea.

Management of Complex Wounds, An Issue of Critical Care Nursing Clinics

Management of Complex Wounds, An Issue of Critical Care Nursing Clinics
Author: Janet Foster
Publisher: Elsevier Health Sciences
Total Pages: 201
Release: 2012-06-28
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 145574560X

This issue of Critical Care Nursing Clinics, Guest Edited by Janet Foster, PhD, RN, CNS, will focus on Wound Care, with article topics including: Wound management; wound debridement; acute wounds; nutrition and wound healing; biology of acute wound failure; psychological stress and wound healing; chronic wound management in the elderly; and adjuncts to preparing wounds for closure: growth factors, skin substitutes, negative pressure therapy and hyperbaric oxygen.

Central Nervous System Infections, An Issue of Critical Care Nursing Clinics

Central Nervous System Infections, An Issue of Critical Care Nursing Clinics
Author: Cynthia Bautista
Publisher: Elsevier Health Sciences
Total Pages: 71
Release: 2013-09-28
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 0323188516

This issue of Critical Care Nursing Clinics is Guest Edited by Cynthia Bautista, PhD, RN, CNRN and will focus on Central Nervous System Infections. Article topics will include bacterial meningitis, viral meningitis, viral encephalitis, cerebral abscess, spinal abscess, and ventriculitis.

Implications of Disaster Preparedness for Nursing, An Issue of Nursing Clinics of North America

Implications of Disaster Preparedness for Nursing, An Issue of Nursing Clinics of North America
Author: Deborah J. Persell
Publisher: Elsevier Health Sciences
Total Pages: 201
Release: 2016-11-18
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 0323477658

According to the Center for Research and Epidemiology of Disasters, the frequency and severity of disasters has increased over 300% in the last decade. Healthcare systems and individual healthcare practitioners, including nurses, are now fulfilling multiple roles in disaster preparedness in the whole of community: planning, preparedness, risk identification, mitigation, response and recovery. Nurses are considered first responders for biological events or when the disaster occurs where they are working. Nurses act as first receivers when accepting patients/victims for care whose injuries result from non-biological events occurring outside the nurse’s workplace. The vast majority of practicing nurses received no disaster preparedness education in their basic nursing education program. Nurses graduating in the 21st century are exposed to some of the concepts of disaster nursing but have little experience unless there is a disaster or emergency where they work or go to school. Readers will be updated on this topic because articles in this edition demonstrate a vast array of implications for nurses in disaster preparedness around the world: chemical, biological, radiological/nuclear, explosives (CBRNE); natural disasters; new models of training and educating nurses for disasters, military nurse response, mental health issues as well as non-government organizations.

Neuromonitoring and Assessment, An Issue of Critical Care Nursing Clinics of North America

Neuromonitoring and Assessment, An Issue of Critical Care Nursing Clinics of North America
Author: Catherine Harris
Publisher: Elsevier Health Sciences
Total Pages: 153
Release: 2016-02-27
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 0323416446

Neuromonitoring is a broad term that essentially accounts for the essence of neuroscience nursing. Nurses working with critically ill, neurologically impaired patients should have a foundation in not only in invasive neuromonitoring, but the more subtle aspects of care. Nurses must understand that they are the most important tool in monitoring patients and interpreting the data. This issue of Critical Care Nursing Clinics will bring together the critical aspects of neuromonitoring in the intensive care units that can be used as a resource for nurses. Some articles included are devoted to Temperature Targeted Management; Refractory Intracranial Pressure Management; Blood pressure monitoring controversies; Invasive Neuromonitoring; Neuroradiology Review; Nursing Monitoring of Critically Ill Neurological Patients; Case Studies in EEG monitoring; and Neuromonitoring in the Operating Room.