High Acuity Nursing
Fourth Edition
Kathleen Dorman Wagner, RN, MSN, CS, University of Kentucky
Karen Johnson, RN, PhD, CCRN, University of Maryland
Pamela Stinson Kidd, deceased
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Chapter 1: Caring for the High Acuity Patient: Patient, Family, and Nursing Consideration
Chapter 2: Acute Pain in the High Acuity Patient
Chapter 3: Fluid and Electrolyte Balance in the High Acuity Patient
Chapter 4: Determination and Assessment of Pulmoncay Gas Exchange
Chapter 5: Alterations in Pulmonary Gas Exchange
Chapter 6: Mechanical Ventilation
Chapter 7: Nursing Care of the Patient with Altered Pulmonary Gas Exchange
Chapter 8: Determination and Assessment of Cardiac Output
Chapter 9: Hemodynamic:Monitoring
Chapter 10: Electrocardiographic Monitoring and Conduction Abnormalities
Chapter 11: Alterations in Myocardial Tissue Perfusion
Chapter 12: Alterations in Cardiac Output
Chapter 13: Nursing Care of the Patient with Altered Myocardial Tissue Perfusion
Chapter 14: Oxygenation
Chapter 15: Shock States
Chapter 16: Multiple Organ Dysfunction Syndrome
Chapter 17: Nursing Care of Patient with impaired Oxygenation
Chapter 18: Determinants and Assessment of Cerebral Perfusion
Chapter 19: Alterations in Cerebral Tissue Perfusion: Acute Brain Attack
Chapter 20: Decreased Adaptive Capacity: Acute Head Injury
Chapter 21: Sensory Perceptual Disorders
Chapter 22: Nursing Care of the Patient with Altered Cerebral Function
Chapter 23: Metabolic Responses
Chapter 24: Hematologic Dysfunction
Chapter 25: Altered Immune Function
Chapter 26: Organ Transplantation
Chapter 27: Altered Glucose Metabolism
Chapter 28: Altered Renal Dysfunction
Chapter 29: Nursing Care of the Patient with Altered Metabolic Function
Chapter 30: Acute Gastrointestinal Dysfunction
Chapter 31: Acute Hypatic Dusfunction
Chapter 32: Acute Pancreatic Dysfunction
Chapter 33: Nursing Care of the Patient with Altered Gastrointestinal Function
Chapter 34: Complex Wound Management
Chapter 35: Acute Burn Injury
Chapter 36: Trauma
Chapter 37: Nursing Care of the Patient with Multiple Injuries
