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Critical care : concepts, role, and practice for the acute care nurse practitioner / Mary M. Wyckoff, Douglas Houghton, Carolyn T. LePage, editors.

Wyckoff, Mary M. (Added Author). Houghton, Douglas. (Added Author). LePage, Carolyn T. (Added Author).

Record details

ISBN: 9780826138262
ISBN: 0826138268
ISBN: 9780826138279 (ebook)
ISBN: 0826138276 (ebook)
Physical Description: x, 568 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Publisher: New York, N.Y. : Springer Pub. Co., [2009]
Copyright: ©2009

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

The acute care nurse practitioner : an established role in acute and critical care / Ruth M. Kleinpell -- Legal issues for critical care advanced practice nurses / Anna G. Small -- Critical care pulmonary management / Suzanne M. Burns -- Cardiac concepts in acute care / Richard B. Silverman, Carolyn Therese LePage -- Neurological critical care / Filissa M. Caserta, Marie S. Depew, Jennifer L. Moran -- Managing liver, kidney, and kidney-pancreas transplant in the ICU / Mary Wyckoff, Valerie Wells, Akin Tekin -- Care of the critically injured patient / Scott Gmora, Joseph P. Corallo -- Burn management / Robin Prater Varas, Olga Quintana, Doris Braddy -- Multisystem organ failure / Barbara A. McLean -- Nutrition, fluids, and electrolytes in the critically ill patient / Jennifer Lefton -- Endocrine emergencies / Barbara A. McLean -- Infection and antibiotic use in the critically ill patient / Nicholas Namias, Douglas Houghton -- End-of-life and palliative care / Douglas Houghton -- Procedures in critical care / Amanda J. Morehouse, Mary Wyckoff, John Mason -- Sedation and analgesia in the ICU / Sean M. Quinn, Miguel A. Cobas -- Family-centered care / Carolyn Therese LePage.