Mosby's Critical Care Nursing Reference

MOSBYS CRITICAL CARE NURSING REFERENCE condenses the most essential critical care nursing information into one easy-access format providing precise acute care management strategies. The books format provides easy access to information needed by the critical care nurse in a number of settings. Appendixes supplement the text with formulas, laboratory values, and scoring tools. The third edition includes a new introduction regarding the role, responsibilities, and routine of critical care nurses; expanded information on pain, infection control, and cardiac surgery patients in the critical care unit; updated terminology, topics, modalities, and treatments; and comparisons of acute and chronic conditions where applicable. A new pharmaco-therapy chapter also provides drug interactions and pharmacokinetics.