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Table of Contents

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Table of Contents



Chapter 01: Overview of Critical Care Nursing 2
Chapter 02: Patient and Family Response to the Critical Care Experience 14
Chapter 03: Ethical and Legal Issues in Critical Care Nursing 30
Chapter 04: Palliative and End-of-Life Care 42
Chapter 05: Comfort and Sedation 56
Chapter 06: Nutritional Therapy 69
Chapter 07: Dysrhythmia Interpretation and Management 83
Chapter 08: Hemodynamic Monitoring 117
Chapter 09: Ventilatory Assistance 137
Chapter 10: Rapid Response Teams and Code Management 156
Chapter 11: Organ Donation 171
Chapter 12: Shock, Sepsis, and Multiple Organ Dysfunction Syndrome 189
Chapter 13: Cardiovascular Alterations 207
Chapter 14: Nervous System Alterations 225
Chapter 15: Acute Respiratory Failure 243
Chapter 16: Acute Kidney Injury 260
Chapter 17: Gastrointestinal Alterations 285
Chapter 17: Hematological and Immune Disorders
312
Chapter 19: Endocrine Alterations
341
Chapter 20: Trauma and Surgical Management
361
Chapter 21: Burns
377




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