Advanced Practice in Critical Care (eBook)

Sarah McGloin is Senior Lecturer in Acute Care at Anglia Ruskin University, UK. Anne McLeod is Senior Lecturer Critical Care at City University, UK.

Contents.

Preface.

Introduction.

Chapter 1- Critical Care Challenges.

Contemporary critical care.

Critical care developments from an international perspective.

Developing the nurses' role in critical careChapter 2- The Physiological Basis of Critical Illness.

Mechanisms of Cellular Damage.

The Inflammatory Response.

Haemostasis.

Chapter 3- The Patient with Haemodynamic Compromise.

Initial patient scenario.

Underlying pathophysiology.

Assessment.

Evidence based care.

Development of the patient scenario.

Progressing pathophysiology.

Ongoing assessment.

Evidence based care.

Chapter 4- The Septic Patient.

Initial patient scenario.

Underlying pathophysiology.

Assessment.

Evidence based care.

Development of the patient scenario.

Progressing pathophysiology.

Ongoing assessment.

Evidence based care.

Chapter 5- The Patient with Severe Burns.

Patient scenario.

Underlying pathophysiology.

Assessment.

Evidence based care.

Chapter 6- The Patient with Acute Respiratory Failure.

Initial patient scenario.

Underlying pathophysiology.

Assessment.

Evidence based care.

Development of the patient scenario.

Progressing pathophysiology.

Ongoing assessment.

Evidence based care.

Chapter 7- The Patient who has Chronic Respiratory Failure.

Patient scenario.

Underlying pathophysiology.

Assessment.

Evidence based care.

Chapter 8- The Patient with an Intracranial Insult.

Initial patient scenario.

Underlying pathophysiology.

Assessment.

Evidence based care.

Development of the patient scenario.

Progressing pathophysiology.

Ongoing assessment.

Evidence based care.

Chapter 9- The Patient with a Traumatic Injury.

Patient scenario.

Underlying pathophysiology.

Assessment.

Evidence based care.

Development of the patient scenario.

Progressing pathophysiology.

Ongoing assessment.

Evidence based care.

Chapter 10- The Patient with a Diabetic Emergency.

Patient scenario.

Underlying pathophysiology.

Assessment.

Evidence based care.

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Chapter 11- The Long term patient in ITU.

Patient scenario.

Psychosocial considerations.

Sensoristasis.

Follow up.

Chapter 12- Ethical considerations of critical care.

Patient scenario.

Ethical principles.

Admission to the critical care setting.

Withholding and withdrawal of treatment.

Nurses role in the decision making process.

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Index