Pocket Guide to Fluid, Electrolyte, and Acid-base Balance: Pageburst Retail

Pocket Guide to Fluid, Electrolyte, and Acid-base Balance: Pageburst Retail
ISBN-10
0323092284
ISBN-13
9780323092289
Series
Pocket Guide to Fluid, Electrolyte, and Acid-Base Balance
Category
Medical
Pages
384
Language
English
Published
2004-10-26
Publisher
Mosby Incorporated
Authors
Mima M. Horne, Ursula Heitz

Description

This is a Pageburst digital textbook; 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

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