Main description:

This book will provide the highest quality and most up-to-date standards of care for ICU nurses throughout the world, written by a team of experts from the World Federation of Critical Care Nurses.

Contents:

Unit I: Issues in Critical Care
Chapter 1: Overview of Critical Care Nursing: The Basics
Chapter 2: Global Critical Care Issues
Chapter 3: Safety and Quality in the ICU
Chapter 4: The Role of ICU Outreach and Medical Emergency Team Response
Chapter 5: Patient and Family Centered Care
Unit II: Clinical Management of the Critical Care Patient
Chapter 6: Acute Stroke Care Management
Chapter 7: Trauma Management Principles
Chapter 8: Updates in the Management of Liver Failure
Chapter 9: Shock and Sepsis
Chapter 10: Arrhythmia Interpretation and Emergency Cardiac Care
Chapter 11: Bundle Care in the ICU
Chapter 12: ECMO and Other Invasive Procedures