Expert ConsultT eBook version included with purchase. This enhanced eBook experience allows you to search all of the text, figures, and references from the book on a variety of devices. Pediatric Life Care Planning and Case Management provides a comprehensive and unique reference that goes beyond the clinical discussion to include legal and financial aspects, life expectancy data, and assistive technology.
It also includes case samples of actual plans related to specific conditions. The book is divided into five parts: Normal Growth and Development of Children describes the normal growth and development and the cognitive and psychosocial development of children. The Roles of the Life Care Plan Team details the roles of members of a life care plan team, from the pediatric care manager and life care planner to the vocational rehabilitation consultant, among others.
Chronic Conditions and Disability States offers guidelines for life care planning for children with a wide range of chronic health conditions and disabilities, including traumatic injuries and organ transplants.
Forensic Considerations examines life care planning in legal cases, life expectancy issues, and life care plan foundation strategies and requirements. With contributions from highly respected professionals, this text provides a guide for life care planners, health-care professionals, education specialists, insurance decision makers, attorneys, and families who work with children with special health-care needs.
As acuity increases in all inpatient departments and the practice of pediatric critical care expands beyond the acute phase of illness or injury, knowledge of pediatric critical care is more essential than ever. Pediatric acute and critical care nurses find themselves handling not only their patients, but care of their families and management of an interprofessional team of caregivers.
The text covers anatomic, physiologic, cognitive, and psychosocial changes that occur throughout the pediatric lifespan.
Chapters are systems focused and review developmental anatomy and physiology, clinical assessment, pharmacology, diagnostic tests, and therapeutic procedures. For each type of disease and injury, information is provided on pathophysiology, etiology, risk factors, signs and symptoms, nursing and collaborative interprofessional management, and complications. It visually guides you through procedures unique to the adult critical care environment, including those performed by advanced practice nurses, in an illustrated, step-by-step format.
This edition features 17 new procedures, new illustrations, and updated content throughout, reflecting the latest evidence-based guidelines and national and international protocols.
Authored by the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses, the foremost authority in critical care nursing, the AACN Procedure Manual is the most authoritative reference to procedures performed by nurses in high acuity, progressive, and critical care settings. Comprehensive coverage includes all procedures commonly performed by nurses in high acuity, progressive, and critical care settings, including those performed by advanced practice nurses indicated by an AP icon.
A straightforward step-by-step organization uses consistent headings to make following a procedure and finding the various supporting elements quick and easy. Rationales for all interventions in patient and family education, assessment, patient preparation, procedure, and monitoring help you understand the reason for every step. The level of evidence is provided when an evidence base exists to substantiate an intervention, giving insight into the strength of information available.
Advanced practice procedures are clearly identified with an AP icon so you can judge whether a procedure is within your scope of practice. Alphabetical Procedure Index inside the front cover provides quick access to the procedures. Written by more than expert critical care nurses and extensively reviewed by more than experts in critical care nursing to ensure the accuracy and currency of each procedure.
Bulleted lists, tables, and detailed illustrations throughout ensure that content is easy to reference and digest. Updated content throughout reflects the latest evidence-based guidelines and national and international protocols. Engaging new illustrations of procedures, equipment, and techniques are integrated throughout.
Emergency and Trauma Care is written for Australian emergency care providers including paramedics, emergency nurses, pre-hospital care providers, nurse practitioners, general practice nurses and allied health practitioners including occupational therapists and physiotherapists who are caring for trauma patients. This book follows the patient journey from pre-hospital to definitive care. Using a body systems approach, each chapter provides comprehensive coverage of all aspects of adult and paediatric emergencies.
Implications for clinical practice is supported by chapters of professional practice, clinical skills, research, evidence-based practice, and legal, ethical and cultural issues. Clinical assessment, physiology, management and rationale for intervention of common and not so common emergency presentations are provided, with each chapter providing clear and relevant examples for both Paramedics and Nurses.
Emergency and Trauma Care brings together a team of highly respected clinical practitioners and academics to deliver the most up-to-date text dealing with the practical procedures and evidence experienced by emergency and trauma care providers every day. Evolve resources include Power point slides, 30 additional Case studies, image bank, web links Three paramedic specific chapters including scene assessment and management.
Get all the essential information you need to effectively treat and manage patients in a complex acute care setting with Acute Care Handbook for Physical Therapists, 5th Edition. This easy-to-follow guide is the perfect resource to help any rehabilitation professional better understand and interpret hospital protocol, safety, medical-surgical "lingo," and the many aspects of patient care in the hospital setting — from the emergency department to the intensive care unit to the general ward.
Evidenced-based information is woven throughout the guide to ensure you are equipped with the proven knowledge needed to manage the acuity of patients in the hospital environment.
Up-to-date content on medications, laboratory tests, diagnostics, and intervention methods that is relevant to patients in the acute care environment helps you gain insight on how these aspects are affected by the acute care setting.
Easy-to-read algorithms, tables, boxes, and clinical tips highlight key information and makes finding and understanding information easier. Revised content throughout the text reflects the latest information on the complex and fast-paced acute care setting. Expanded chapters on outcome measures, mechanical circulatory support, and chest pain.
Redesigned airway clearance chapter. Reformatted nervous system chapter to enhance clinical integration of content. Enhanced access to information on lines and tubes. You'll want to keep this practical volume within easy reach! Now thoroughly updated, this Third Edition provides an overview of the knowledge and skills required for current practice in the physical rehabilitation of children.
Readers will learn to integrate essential information into a physical therapy evaluation and treatment plan. Organized by disability and diseases, then by specialty, the text addresses the most current information on each disability, and presents evaluation techniques and suitable interventions. Unlike other books, this unique guide covers neurological disorders, neuromuscular problems, developmental disabilities, orthopedic and cardiopulmonary disorders -- all in chapters written by recognized experts.
Noteworthy in this edition: coverage of orthopedic and limb deficiency, traumatic brain injury, cerebral palsy, spina bifida, and assistive devices.
This issue of Clinics in Plastic Surgery, guest edited by Drs. Charles Scott Hultman and Michael W. Named a Doody's Core Title! The authors have covered all the basics and produced a text that provides a well-rounded knowledge base for critical care. With this text, Acute Care Nurse Practitioners ACNPs will learn what to expect in the critical care unit, and how to manage various complications with patients in acute and intensive care settings.
With Total Burn Care, you'll offer effective burn management every step of the way! Effectively manage burn patients from their initial presentation through long-term rehabilitation. Devise successful integrated treatment programs for different groups of patients, such as elderly and pediatric patients. Browse the complete contents of Total Burn Care online and download images, tables, figures, PowerPoint presentations, procedural videos, and more at www.
Prevention of Burn Injuries 5. Burn Management in Disasters and Humanitarian Crises 6. Care of Outpatient Burns 7. Pathophysiology of Burn Shock and Burn Edema 9. Fluid Resuscitation and Early Management Evaluation of the Burn Wound: Management Decisions Enzymatic Debridement of Burn Wounds Treatment of Infection in Burns Operative Wound Management Anesthesia for Burned Patients The Skin Bank Alternative Wound Coverings The Pathophysiology of Inhalation Injury Diagnosis and Treatment of Inhalation Injury Respiratory Care The Systemic Inflammatory Response Syndrome The Immunological Response and Strategies for Intervention Hematologic and Hematopoietic Response to Burn Injury The Hepatic Response to Thermal Injury Hypophosphatemia Nutritional Support of the Burned Patient Modulation of the Hypermetabolic Response after Burn Injury Etiology and Prevention of Multisystem Organ Failure Renal Failure in Association with Thermal Injuries Burn Nursing
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