Post Anesthesia Care Unit

This edition includes coverage of recent research and documentation and the latest physiologic, pharmacologic and psychosocial considerations. It features expanded material on IV agents and regional anaesthesia.

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The New Edition of the highly regarded work formerly entitled: THE RECOVERY ROOM: A Critical Care Approach, offers a more in-depth and stronger clinical focus than any other book of its kind. New coverage includes the most recent research and documentation and the latest physiologic pharmacologic and psychosocial considerations. Features: * In-depth coverage of pathophysiology for all body systems now includes nursing interventions and pharmacologic interventions * Discussions of the various types of anaesthetic agents include the physiology of action and the appropriate nursing interventions to be anticipated in the PACU * Helpful advice for the special considerations for patients with conditions such as malignant hyperthermia, substance abuse, sickle cell anaemia, and cardiac arrest