Michaela Dixon, Doreen Crawford

Paediatric Intensive Care Nursing

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Produktbeschreibung

The needs of critically ill children are unique and highly specialized. Paediatric Intensive Care Nursing is an essential manual of care and an invaluable resource to all those involved in the care of critically ill children and young people. Covering all the key aspects of pediatric intensive care, it is a fully comprehensive textbook which provides an evidence-based and up-to-date guide for all nurses who work with critically ill children.

Paediatric Intensive Care Nursing is divided into four user-friendly sections:
The first section looks at the general background of paediatric intensive care
Section two employs a systems approach, with each chapter focusing on a specific disease and following the same framework. This includes treating children with cardiac conditions, acute neurological dysfunction, musculoskeletal injuries and gastrointestinal and endocrine conditions
Section three looks at the essential care of managing pain relief, transportation needs and treating wounds
The final section explores the holistic aspects of nursing - nutrition and fluid management, infection control issues, safeguarding children and spirituality and bereavement

Written by a team of experts in the field, Paediatric Intensive Care Nursing is indispensable reading for nurses and health care professionals working with critically ill children.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley & Sons
• 1. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 432
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. November 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 246mm x 189mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 831g
• ISBN-13: 9781405199360
• ISBN-10: 1405199369
• Artikelnr.: 35454852

Autorenporträt

About the Editors Michaela Dixon is Senior Lecturer in Child Health at UWE and Clinical Development Nurse, Paediatric Intensive Care, at Bristol Royal Hospital for Children. Doreen Crawford is Senior Lecturer in Nursing and Midwifery at De Montfort University. She is the Chair of the Children and Young People's Acute Care Forum, and has sat on the RCN National Forum for Neonatal and Paediatric Intensive Care since 2005, which has led to work representing them with NPSA, BAPM, RCPCH and NICE.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Contributors xi Acknowledgements xiii Section 1: Introduction to
Paediatric Intensive Care Nursing 1 1 Introduction to Children's Intensive
Care 3 Dave Clarke 2 Assessment and Management of the Critically Ill
Child/Resuscitation 11 Mark Fores and Doreen Crawford 3 Physiological
Monitoring of Infants and Children in the Intensive Care Unit 22 Michaela
Dixon and Debra Teasdale Section 2: Systems Approach 33 4 Care of an Infant
or Child with a Respiratory Illness and/or the Need for Respiratory Support
35 Michaela Dixon 5 Care of an Infant or Child with a Cardiac Condition or
Disease 102 Sandra Batcheler and Michaela Dixon 6 Care of the Infant or
Child in Renal Failure 169 Ben Harvey and Doreen Crawford 7 Care of the
Infant or Child with Acute Neurological Dysfunction 188 Michaela Dixon 8
Care of an Infant or Child with Gastrointestinal or Endocrine Dysfunction
215 Doreen Crawford and Michaela Dixon 9 Care of a Child with
Musculoskeletal Injury 250 Mark Fores and Doreen Crawford 10 Care of the
Infant or Child with Thermal Injury 273 Jane Leaver and Clare Thomas 11
Care of the Child with Cancer 284 Karen Selwood, Caroline Langford and
Michelle Wright Section 3: Essential Care 301 12 Nutrition and Fluid
Management 303 Doreen Crawford 13 Management of Pain and Sedation in
Intensive Care 318 Doreen Crawford and Michaela Dixon 14 Managing Skin
Integrity, Wound Healing and Care 338 Doreen Crawford 15 Transportation of
the Critically Ill Infant or Child 349 Alison Oliver and Michaela Dixon
Section 4: Holistic Care 359 16 Care of the Family 361 Doreen Crawford and
Peter McNee 17 Spiritual Care and Bereavement in Paediatric Intensive Care
370 Peter McNee 18 Safeguarding Children in the Intensive Care Unit 381
Gillian Earl Conclusion 392 References 392 Further reading 393 Resources
393 Index 395