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
The last chapter covers such treatments as IV fluid replacement and total parenteral nutrition. This edition has been revised and updated and includes new entries on acute pancreatitis and heat syndrome.
12 HEAT SYNDROMES Heat syndromes are a major cause of preventable deaths worldwide , especially in regions with high temperatures . They develop when the body can't offset its rising temperature , thus retaining too much heat and ...
This handy guide provides the crucial coverage you need to quickly recall the signs, symptoms, and treatments of common fluid, electrolyte, and acid-base imbalances.
The last chapter covers such treatments as IV fluid replacement and total parenteral nutrition. This edition has been revised and updated and includes new entries on acute pancreatitis and heat syndrome.
Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson. ANSWER: 2. Rationale: 1. These ABG values are not indicative ofuncompensated respiratory acidosis. 2. The nurse should associate these ABG values with uncompensated metabolic acidosis.
The last chapter covers such treatments as IV fluid replacement and total parenteral nutrition. This edition has been revised and updated and includes new entries on acute pancreatitis and heat syndrome.
This is the official textbook on Fluids and Electrolytes created by Nurse Academy.
Practical and clinically oriented, this book is a handy reference for practicing physicians, students, residents and fellows.
Over 600 NCLEX-style questions in the text and online as DavisPlus student content provide... rationales for correct and incorrect answers alternate-format questions test-taking tips Two, 50-item comprehensive NCLEX-style tests online at ...
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