Introduction to critical care nursing /

Includes bibliographical references and index

Overview of critical care nursing -- Patient and family response to the critical care experience -- Ethical and legal issues in critical care nursing -- Palliative and end-of-life care -- Comfort and sedation -- Nutritional support -- Dysrhythmia interpretation and management -- Hemodynamic monitoring -- Ventilatory assistance -- Rapid response teams and code management -- Organ donation -- Shock, sepsis, and multiple organ dysfunction syndrome -- Cardiovascular alterations -- Nervous system alterations -- Acute respiratory failure -- Acute kidney injury -- Hematological and immune disorders -- Gastrointestinal alterations -- Endocrine alterations -- Trauma and surgical management -- Burns