Cardiac rhythm disorders : a nursing process approach
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Cardiac rhythm disorders : a nursing process approach
Mosby Year Book, c1992
2nd ed
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Frye's name appears first on the earlier edition
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
A comprehensive guide to the identification, analysis and management of cardiac arrhythmias. It provides students with an understanding of the 12-lead ECG as a diagnostic and monitoring tool, and discusses each arrhythmia in a nursing process framework, featuring assessment, diagnosis, planning, intervention and evaluation. It includes self-assessment sections comprising multiple-choice, true/false, matching and short answer questions, as well as case studies with sample strips for practising identification, analysis and care planning to help readers evaluate their diagnostic abilities.
Table of Contents
- Part 1 Knowledge base: selected topics in cardiac anatomy, physiology and electrophysiology
- cardiac monitors and their function
- monitoring the patient
- identifying electrocardiographic complexes, analyzing rhythm and selecting a lead. Part 2 The nursing process in interpreting arrhythmias: the sinus rhythms, atrial rhythm disturbances
- AV junctional rhythms disturbances
- ventricular rhythm disturbances
- atrioventricular and intraventricular conduction disturbances.
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