Medical Abbreviations & Normal Ranges

Survival Guide

Helen Jones (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

64 Seiten

2019 | 2nd edition
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-138-35197-4 (ISBN)

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Part of the skill of nursing and healthcare involves being able to decipher and understand the meanings of results and abbreviations. Fully updated, this second edition is a handy survival guide which will supply you with up-to-date information and help you understand this language, so that you can provide appropriate holistic care to your patients.

Helen Jones is Senior Lecturer, Pre-Registration Nursing at the University of Worcester, UK.

Introduction

Abbreviations and acronyms

Conventional units of measurement

Normal Ranges:

Cardiovascular: Pulse Sites

Blood pressure stages

Biochemistry

Blood composition: Coagulation screen

Cardiac Enzymes

Hormone levels

Respiratory: Respiration rates

Tidal Volumes

Arterial Blood Gases

Acid Base Balance

Peak Flow readings

Neurological: Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS)

Renal: Urinalysis

Fluid Balance

Nutritional assessment: MUST

Patient at Risk Scores: NEWS

PEWS

Skin assessment: WATERLOW

Erscheinungsdatum	07.05.2019
Reihe/Serie	Nursing and Health Survival Guides
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	80 x 120 mm
Gewicht	63 g
Themenwelt	Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Lexikon / Chroniken
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Gesundheitsfachberufe ► Hebamme / Entbindungspfleger
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Pflege ► Ausbildung / Prüfung
ISBN-10	1-138-35197-0 / 1138351970
ISBN-13	978-1-138-35197-4 / 9781138351974
Zustand	Neuware