Pocket Guide to Fluid, Electrolyte, and Acid-Base Balance |
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Author:
| Heitz, Ursula Easterday Horne, Mima M. |
Contribution by:
| Spahn, Deborah L. |
Series title: | Nursing Pocket Guides |
ISBN: | 978-0-323-02603-1 |
Publication Date: | Oct 2004 |
Publisher: | Elsevier - Health Sciences Division
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Imprint: | Mosby |
Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | USD $40.95 |
Book Description:
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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...
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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