The fifth edition of this essential text provides a comprehensive overview of working in intensive care. Written for critical care nurses practising at Level 3, it is fully updated to ensure the evidence base is up to date and the content reflects contemporary best practice.
Intensive Care Nursing covers patient-focused issues of bedside nursing; the technical knowledge necessary to care safely for ICU patients; the more common and specialised disease processes and treatments encountered; and how nurses can use their knowledge and skills to develop their own and others' practice. This feature includes all-new chapters on maternal critical care and principles of pharmacology for intensive care nursing. The chapters include numerous pedagogical features to aid readers in transferring their learning, such as boxes highlighting implications for practice, further reading sections, and clinical scenarios with questions.
Intensive Care Nursing is essential reading for student and qualified nurses and allied health professionals working with critically ill patients, particularly those undertaking post-registration training in the area.
The fifth edition of this essential text provides a comprehensive overview of working in intensive care. Written for critical care nurses practising at level 3, it is fully updated to ensure the evidence base is up to date and the content reflects contemporary best practice.
Part 1: Contexts of Care1. Nursing Perspectives2. Humanism3. Psychological CarePart 2: Fundamental4. Artificial Ventilation5. Airway Management6. Sedation7. Acute Pain Management8. Thermoregulation9. Nutrition and Bowel Care10. Mouthcare11. Eyecare12. Tissue Viability
13. Children in Adult ICUs14. Maternal Intensive and Critical Care15. Older Patients in ICU16. Infection Prevention and Control17. Pandemic PlanningPart 3: Monitoring18. Respiratory Monitoring19. Gas Carriage20. Blood Gas Interpretation21. Haemodynamic Monitoring22. Blood Results23. ECGs and Dysrhythmias24. Neurological MonitoringPart 4: Micropathologies25. Cellular Pathology26. Immunity and Immunodeficiency27. HaemostasisPart 5: Respiratory28. Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS)29. Alternative VentilationPart 6: Cardiovascular30. Acute Coronary Syndromes31. Coronary Surgery and Interventions32. Shock33. Sepsis34. Fluid Management35. Inotropes and Vasopressors36. Vascular SurgeryPart 7: Neurological37. Central Nervous System Injury38. Peripheral Neurological PathologiesPart 8: Abdominal39. Acute Kidney Injury40. Haemofiltration41. Gastrointestinal Bleeds42. Liver Failure43. Obstetric Admissions to ICU
44. Organ DonationPart 9: Metabolic45. Severe Acute Pancreatitis46. Diabetic Crises47. Self-poisoningPart 10: Professional48. Transferring Critically Ill Patients49. Professional Perspectives50. Managing the ICU51. Costs of Intensive Care52. Applied Pharmacology in Intensive Care
The late Philip Woodrow was a practice development nurse in critical care at East Kent Hospitals University Foundation Trust, UK. He authored the first four editions of Intensive Care Nursing, as well as Nursing Acutely Ill Adults and High Dependency Nursing Care.
Barry Hill is a professor of acute and critical care nursing and head of the School for Nursing and Midwifery at Buckinghamshire New University, UK. Internationally recognised in education, he has authored 9 books and over 60 book chapters and published over 100 articles in peer-reviewed journals. Currently, Barry is the consultant editor for the International Journal of Advancing Practice (IJAP) and the clinical editor for the British Journal of Nursing (BJN).
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