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Essential Procedures: Acute Care

Essential Procedures: Acute Care

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Essential Procedures: Acute Care is a comprehensive guide to performing common acute care procedures safely and confidently. It is organized by body systems and includes step-by-step directions, absolute and relative contraindications, equipment needed, potential risks and complications, and post-procedural care. The book also features evidence-based research bibliographies and reference chapters to enhance understanding of interpreting diagnostics and responding to emergencies.

Format: Paperback / softback
Publication date: 17 December 2021
Publisher: Wolters Kluwer Health


Strengthen your advanced practice, acute care nursing skills with Essential Procedures: Acute Care, the indispensable tool for learning how to safely and confidently perform the most common acute care procedures. Organized by body systems, the procedures covered in this book include arterial line insertion, wound closure, and lumbar puncture. A handy, spiral-bound text that lies flat, this ideal resource offers step-by-step direction for acute care nursing students; it is also a handy on-the-unit reference for new acute care nurse practitioners. Learn best practices and improve your acute care procedural skills with this expert guidance: Each chapter walks you through at least one procedure, with easy-to-follow organization and full-color photos and illustrations that clearly demonstrate each step: Indications for the procedure Absolute and relative contraindications Equipment needed Steps to performing the procedure Potential risks and complications Post-procedural care Cardiovascular procedures – central venous catheter placement, transvenous pacing, transcutaneous pacemakers, cardioversion, starting an intraosseous infusion, pulmonary catheter insertion Pulmonary procedures – endotracheal intubation, tube thoracostomy (chest tube) placement, needle decompression, removing chest tubes, thoracentesis, bronchoscopy, changing tracheostomy Gastrointestinal procedures – paracentesis, inserting small-bore feeding tubes (nasoduodenal and nasogastric) Integumentary procedures – administering local anesthetics, sutures and staples, incision and drainage, paronychia, nail hematoma release Neurological and musculoskeletal procedures – compartment pressure monitoring, arthrocentesis, negative pressure wound therapy application, cast application Hem.

Weight: 508g
Dimension: 161 x 231 x 21 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781975173739
Edition number: First, International Edition

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