Pediatric critical care

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Pediatric critical care

Patricia A. Moloney-Harmon, guest editor ; Suzanne S. Prevost, consulting editor

(Critical care nursing clinics of North America, v. 17, no. 4)

Saunders, 2005

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Description

Contributed by nurses from domestic and international children's hospitals, the articles of this issue cover a broad range of material on pediatric critical care nursing. Different patterns of injury such as drowning and toxic ingestions are addressed. The authors also cover pediatric cardiac surgery, injury prevention and end of life decision making.

Table of Contents

1. Expert Pediatric Critical Care Nurses Judgments Related to Endotracheal Suctioning (Thomas) 2. Update on Sedation, Analgesia and Muscle Blockade (Sorce) 3. Pediatric Fluid and Electrolyte Balance: Critical Care Case Studies (Roberts) 4. Patient Safety in the PICU (Rice, Nelson) 5. Low Cardiac Output Syndrome: Identification and Management in the Postoperative Cardiac Patient (Masse) 6. Facilitating Sibling Presence in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (Rozdilsky) 7. The Experience of a Broken Heart (Fernandes) 8. Computerizing Nursing Education in Pediatric Critical Care (O'Malley) 9. Acute Lung Injury and ARDS (Frye) 10. Management of the Pediatric Postoperative Cardiac Surgery Patient (Beke, Braudis, Lincoln) 11. Pediatric Poisonings - Recognition, Assessment and Management (Madden) 12. Diabetic Ketoacidosis in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (Bevacqua) 13. End of Life Care for the Critically Ill Child (Copnell) 14. Submersion Injuries in Children: Acute Injury Management and Prevention (Rhoades) 15. Status Asthmaticus in the PICU (Marcoux)

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  • NCID
    BA86666036
  • ISBN
    • 1416026533
  • Country Code
    us
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    Philadelphia
  • Pages/Volumes
    xvi, p. [311]-510
  • Size
    26 cm
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