Pocket Guide to Fluid, Electrolyte, and Acid-Base Balance - E-Book (eBook)

Ursula Heitz, Mima M. Horne (Autoren)

eBook Download: EPUB

2004 | 5. Auflage
384 Seiten
Elsevier Health Sciences (Verlag)
978-0-323-17081-9 (ISBN)

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With its concise, user-friendly outline format, this handy pocket guide is the indispensable consultant for fluid, electrolyte, and acid-base disturbances and how they relate to patient care. Readers will discover pathophysiology, assessment, diagnostic tests, collaborative management, and nursing diagnoses and interventions reviewed in a logical, consistent, and easy-to-read manner.

• Helps readers identify a patient's specific imbalance and understand the required nursing care
• Provides the ability to look up a diagnosis and learn what fluid, electrolyte, or acid-base disturbances are associated with that diagnosis
• Includes patient-family teaching guidelines with clear instructions to give the patient and family regarding care for the condition
• Provides pediatric and geriatric information to help users understand the variations within these special patient populations

• Compares different types of parenteral and enteral feedings, along with nursing implications
• Contains expanded and updated relevant IV therapy and pharmacology
• Features updated content throughout with current literature and research findings, such as most current blood pressure guidelines from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 12.11.2012
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Lexikon / Chroniken
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Pflege ► Ausbildung / Prüfung
• ISBN-10: 0-323-17081-1 / 0323170811
• ISBN-13: 978-0-323-17081-9 / 9780323170819