Author: Jenny G. Alderden Publisher: Elsevier Health Sciences ISBN: 0323757081 Category : Medical Languages : en Pages : 153
Book Description
Along with Consulting Editor, Dr. Cynthia Bautista, Dr. Jenny Alderden has assembled an expert author list to contribute clinical reviews on best practices for improving outcomes in and prevention of pressure injuries. Articles are specifically devoted to the following topics: Risk Factors for Pressure Injury Development among Critical Care Patients; Best Practice in Pressure Injury Prevention among Critical Care Patients; Best Practices in Pressure Injury Treatment; Pressure Injury Prevention and Treatment in Critically Ill Children; Medical Device-Related Pressure Injuries; Unstageable Pressure Injuries: Identification, Treatment, and Outcomes among Critical Care Patients; Deep Tissue Pressure Injuries: Identification, Treatment, and Outcomes among Critical Care Patients; The Role of Nutrition in Pressure Injury Prevention and Healing; and Heel Pressure Injuries in the Adult Critical Care Population; Pressure Injury Prevention Considerations for Older Adults. Readers will come away with best practices for improving pressure injury outcomes in critical care patients.
Author: Jenny G. Alderden Publisher: Elsevier ISBN: 9780323757072 Category : Medical Languages : en Pages : 240
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Together with Consulting Editor, Dr. Cynthia Bautista, Dr. Jenny G. Alderden has put together a current clinical look at the prevention and management of pressure injuries for the critical care nurse. Top authors have submitted clinical reviews that provide comprehensive coverage of this highly important topic. Specific articles are devoted to the following areas: Risk Factors for Pressure Injury Development among Critical Care Patients; Best Practice in Pressure Injury Prevention; Best Practice in Pressure Injury Treatment; Pressure Injury Risk in the NICU Population; Medical Device Related Pressure Injuries; Unstageable Pressure Injuries: Identification, Treatment, and Outcomes among Critical Care Patients; Deep Tissue Pressure Injuries: Identification, Treatment, and Outcomes among Critical Care Patients; Stage of the Science: Stage 1 Pressure Injuries among Critical Care Patients; The Role of Nutrition in Pressure Injury Prevention and Healing; and Heel Pressure Injury. Readers will come away with the information they need to improve outcomes in their critical care patients.
Author: Catherine Harris Publisher: Elsevier Health Sciences ISBN: 0323416438 Category : Medical Languages : en Pages : 153
Book Description
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.
Author: Kate Curtis (Trauma clinical nurse consultant) Publisher: Elsevier ISBN: 0729587207 Category : Languages : en Pages : 1502
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Endorsed by the College of Emergency Nursing Australasia CENA is the peak professional association representing emergency nurses and has endorsed this text in recognition of the relevance it has to emergency nursing across Australasia. Led by an expanded editorial team of internationally recognised clinicians, researchers and leaders in emergency care, the 3rd edition of Emergency and Trauma Care for Nurses and Paramedics continues to be the foremost resource for students preparing to enter the emergency environment and for clinicians seeking a greater understanding of multidisciplinary emergency care. The text provides nursing and paramedicine students and clinicians with the opportunity to understand the best available evidence behind the treatment that is provided throughout the emergency care trajectory. This unique approach ultimately seeks to strengthen multidisciplinary care and equip readers with the knowledge and skills to provide safe, quality, emergency care. The 3rd edition builds on the strengths of previous editions and follows a patient journey and body systems approach, spanning the pre-hospital and hospital environments. Expanded editorial team, all internationally recognised researchers and leaders in Emergency Care Chapter 6 Patient safety and quality care in emergency All chapters revised to reflect the most up-to-date evidence-based research and practice Case studies and practice tips highlight cultural considerations and communication issues Aligns to NSQHSS 2e, NMBA and PBA Standards An eBook included in all print purchases
Author: Justin H. DiLibero Publisher: Elsevier Health Sciences ISBN: 0323836038 Category : Medical Languages : en Pages : 161
Book Description
In this issue of Critical Care Nursing Clinics, Guest Editor Justin Dilibero brings his considerable expertise to the topic of resuscitation. Top experts in the field cover key topics such as trauma, sepsis, burns, pediatrics, cardiac arrest, and more. Provides in-depth, clinical reviews on resuscitation for critical care nurses, providing actionable insights for clinical practice. Presents the latest information on this timely, focused topic under the leadership of experienced editors in the field; Authors synthesize and distill the latest research and practice guidelines to create these timely topic-based reviews. Contains 12 relevant, practice-oriented topics including improving resuscitation outcomes in severe traumatic brain injury; targeted temperature management after cardiac arrest; family presence and support during resuscitation; the role of the tele-ICU; and more.
Author: Karen Bergman Publisher: Elsevier Health Sciences ISBN: 0323388833 Category : Medical Languages : en Pages : 145
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Special considerations arise as critical care nurses care for victims of trauma and violence. This issue highlights the recent advances in the care of these patients, including victims of street crime and domestic violence. As a result of the wars in Afganistan and Iraq, changes in the echelons of care have been brought to U.S. trauma centers in order to better triage, manage, and provide post-surgical care to trauma patients. Articles in this issue address the advances in this field.
Author: Lynn C. Parsons Publisher: Elsevier ISBN: 9780443184000 Category : Medical Languages : en Pages : 0
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In this issue of Critical Care Nursing Clinics, guest editor Dr. Deborah Garbee brings her considerable expertise to the topic of Older Adults in Critical Care. Older adults often present to critical care settings with multiple co-morbidities, polypharmacy, and geriatric syndromes, and critical care nurses need knowledge and skills to address the challenges presented by older adult patients and their care. In this issue, top nursing experts discuss new models of care, approaches to assessment and management, and guidelines for critical care nurses. Contains 14 practice-oriented topics including delirium in older adults; biofilm and hospital-acquired infections in older adults; progressive supranuclear palsy; sepsis across the continuum; improving outcomes in cardiovascular geriatric patients related to polypharmacy; and more. Provides in-depth clinical reviews on older adults in critical care, offering actionable insights for clinical practice. Presents the latest information on this timely, focused topic under the leadership of experienced editors in the field. Authors synthesize and distill the latest research and practice guidelines to create clinically significant, topic-based reviews.
Author: Debra Sullivan Publisher: Elsevier Health Sciences ISBN: 032358151X Category : Medical Languages : en Pages :
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Gastrointestinal dysfunction or injury is common in the critical care patient either as a primary diagnosis or as secondary symptoms. Several studies confirm that up to 62% of critical care patients exhibit at least one GI symptom for at least one day. In addition, recent studies have shown that GI problems are related to negative outcomes in the critical care patient. The articles in this issue are current and relevant to critical care patients today: Autoimmune Disease of the Gut in the Critical Care Patient; Nutrition Options in CCU Patients; Mesenteric Ischemia; Management of C-Diff in Critical Care Setting; Management of Acute GI Bleed; Acute Diverticulitis Management; GI Patient Skills Training in the ICU: SOFA assessment and recognizing GI symptoms; EBP with probiotics in treatment for antibiotic associated diarrhea in the ICU; GI Problems in the ICU with Patients with HIV/AIDs; Complications of GI Motility/GI Failure in the Critically Ill Patient; Untreated Gastroesophageal Reflux Patients in the ICU; Liver Transplant; Ecoli Complications in Critical Care-Pediatrics; and GI Traumatic injuries: GI Perforation. Being knowledgeable and skillful in the recognition and care for these problems is paramount to the critical care nurse.
Author: Yalda Rahimi Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 152
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Background: Pressure injuries (PIs) impose significant human and financial costs on patients and their families and the health care system. Most are considered preventable and therefore are deemed medical errors. Among medical errors, PIs are the costliest. Results from extensive etiology-related and interventional research have been translated into evidence-based clinical guidelines which have been widely disseminated. Yet, hospital acquired pressure injuries (HAPI) have been increasing in recent years while HAPI prevalence rates in intensive care units (ICU) continue being the highest among hospitalized patients. Considering that the majority of PIs are medical errors, researchers and health care organizations have to explore human factors, such as attitudes of main stakeholders, to inform approaches to decreasing HAPIs in ICU patients who are among the most vulnerable of hospitalized patients. Methods: A multi-site, focused ethnographic study was conducted with four major stakeholders in the ICU. Critical care nurses (CCRN), physician and nurse practitioner providers, ICU leaders, and patients and their families from two community hospitals and two academic hospitals participated in interviews or focus groups. Semi-structured interview guides were used to elicit implicit and explicit attitudes of each stakeholder group towards PIP. Results: Findings of three stakeholder groups, CCRNs, providers, and patients and families, are reported here. All participants held preconceptions and misconceptions about PIs and PIP which informed the degree to which they were engaged with PIP processes. Preconceptions and misconceptions affected how they interpreted transition points in the ICU which in turn impacted how they prioritized PIP. Major misconceptions held by both CCRNs and providers were that PIP could not be undertaken with very critical patients, that PIP mostly consisted of side to side turning at various intervals, and that PIs took longer than scientific evidence suggests. Patients' and families' incomplete preconception that affected their attitude toward PIP in the ICU was that PIs only befell frail, bedbound, and debilitated patients in skilled nursing facilities.
Author: Jenny G. Alderden
Author: Jenny G. Alderden
Author: Catherine Harris
Author: Kate Curtis (Trauma clinical nurse consultant)
Author: Justin H. DiLibero
Author: Karen Bergman
Author: Lynn C. Parsons
Author: Debra Sullivan
Author: Yalda Rahimi
Author: Lynn C. Parsons