A Nurse's Survival Guide to Critical Care - Updated Edition

<p>Section 1 - General principles of critical care</p> <p>1.1: Introduction to critical care nursing</p> <p>1.2:    Health and Safety</p> <p>1.3: Emergencies and life-threatening conditions</p> <p>1.4:    Life threatening complications/ outcomes</p> <p>Section 2 - Patient assessment and investigations </p> <p>2.1: Identification of patient needs/problems</p> <p>2.2: Assessment</p> <p>2.3: Haemodynamic monitoring</p> <p>2.4: Diagnostic procedures</p> <p>Section 3 - Critical care interventions</p> <p>3.1:  Medium-technology life-support interventions</p> <p>3.2:  High-technology life-support interventions</p> <p>3.3: Caring for a critical care patient</p> <p>3.4: Intubation and ventilation</p> <p>3.5: Transfer of critical care patients</p> <p>Section 4 - Common conditions/reasons for admission</p> <p>4.1: Physiological processes common to all medical and surgical conditions </p> <p>4.2: Neurological</p> <p>4.3: Endocrine disorders</p> <p>4.4: Respiratory</p> <p>4.5: Cardiovascular</p> <p>4.6: Renal</p> <p>4.7: Gastrointestinal (GIT)</p> <p>4.8: Immunological</p> <p>4.9: Burns</p> <p>4.10: Poisoning/overdose</p> <p>Section 5 - Psychological and ethical care</p> <p>5.1: Mental effects of critical care</p> <p>5.2: Death and dying in critical care</p> <p>5.3: Professional practice issues</p> <p>Section 6 - Pharmacology</p> <p>6.1:  Medication management</p> <p>6.2:     Pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics </p> <p>6.3:  Classification of drugs used in critical care </p> <p>6.4: Drug calculations</p> <p>6.5: Nurse prescribing</p> <p>References </p> <p>Further Reading </p> <p>Appendix 1 Units of measurement </p> <p>Appendix 2 Normal values </p> <p>Appendix 3 Drug measurement and calculations </p> <p>Glossary </p> <p>Index </p>