Monitoring the Critically Ill Patient

Monitoring the Critically Ill Patient by Philip Jevon

Monitoring the Critically Ill Patient is an invaluable, accessible guide to caring for critically ill patients on the general ward. Now fully updated and improved throughout, this well-established and handy reference guide text assumes no prior knowledge and equips students and newly-qualified staff with the clinical skills and knowledge they need to confidently monitor patients at risk, identify key priorities, and provide prompt and effective care. This new edition includes the following five new chapters: Monitoring the critically ill child Monitoring the critically ill pregnant patient Monitoring the patient with infection and related systemic inflammatory response Monitoring a patient receiving a blood transfusion Monitoring pain

“This would be a helpful guide for nurses working in any acute setting; acute wards, coronary care, critical care outreach or the emergency departmentIt is also a good introductory tool for critical care nurses explaining the principles of assessment, different types of invasive monitoring and waveforms and so on.”  (Nursing Times, 17 October 2012)

Philip Jevon is Resuscitation Officer/Clinical Skills Lead, Manor Hospital, Walsall. He is Honorary Clinical Lecturer at Birmingham Medical School, and Editor of The British Journal of Resuscitation

Beverley Ewens is Nurse Manager in Critical Care at Joondalup Health Campus, Perth, Western Australia. She is an ALS instructor and Course Director for the ALERT course at Walsall.

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ISBN 13	9781444337471
ISBN 10	1444337475
Title	Monitoring the Critically Ill Patient
Author	Philip Jevon
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Year published	2012-03-09
Number of pages	384
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.