Monitoring The Critically Ill Patient 3E

Monitoring the Critically Ill Patient is an essential, accessible guide to caring for critically ill patients on the general ward. Now fully updated and improved throughout, this well established and handy referenced text assumes no prior knowledge and equips students and newly-qualified staff with the clinical skills and knowledge they need to confidently monitor patients at risk, identify key priorities, and provide prompt and effective care.


This new edition includes the following 5 brand new chapters:


* Monitoring the critically ill child

* Monitoring the critically ill pregnant patient

* Monitoring the patient with infection and related systemic inflammatory response

* Monitoring a patient receiving a blood transfusion

* Monitoring pain

* Third edition of a successful clinical text

* A practical, how-to approach to monitoring patients at risk of deterioration

* Applicable to all nurses working on the ward setting, not just critical/intensive care nurses

* Case studies and examples used to encourage reader to apply their knowledge to a practical setting

* Suitable for nursing students as well as the newly qualified nurse

Philip Jevon is Resuscitation Officer/Clinical Skills Lead, Manor Hospital, Walsall. He is Honorary Clinical Lecturer at Birmingham Medical School, and Editor of The British Journal of Resuscitation

Beverley Ewens is Nurse Manager in Critical Care at Joondalup Health Campus, Perth, Western Australia. She is an ALS instructor and Course Director for the ALERT course at Walsall.