Aldridge / O'Dwyer Practical Emergency and Critical Care Veterinary Nursing

1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-1-118-48348-0
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 224 Seiten, E-Book

Your step-by-step guide to key emergency and critical careprocedures and hands-on nursing care. Whether you need to know howto prioritise your response to a patient with multiple injuries, oryou need a quick practical guide to fluid therapy, this is thego-to resource. Colour photographs of real life cases takeyou through the procedures and after-care, detailing essentialskills. This book provides vital information for emergency andcritical care situations, whether you're looking forconfidence in handling emergency cases in a first-opinion practice,or a relevant, succinct guide for an emergency clinic. Beinspired to become more confident in your clinical skills andabilities, and learn how to apply your existing skills to anemergency situation.
A companion website provides additional resources useful in themanagement of emergency and critical patients. Visit thewebsite to find information charts and video clips ofprocedures.
Written by a veterinary nurse and a veterinary surgeon who worktogether in the largest UK emergency clinic, this book is apractical, how-to manual with a nursing focus.
Suitable as a complete reference for nurses studying towardsqualifications, or as a practical guide for daily use by veterinarynurses working in veterinary emergency and critical care.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Aldridge, Paul

O'Dwyer, Louise

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface vi
1 Triage and Assessment of the Emergency Patient 1
2 Monitoring the Critical Patient 9
3 Vascular Access 17
4 'Shock' and Intravenous Fluid Therapy 29
5 Blood Gas, Acid-Base Analysis and ElectrolyteAbnormalities 41
6 Analgesia and Anaesthesia of the Emergency and CriticalPatient 52
7 Practical Laboratory Techniques 63
8 Techniques for Oxygen Supplementation 76
9 Nursing the Dyspnoeic Patient 86
10 Nursing the Cardiac Patient 97
11 Nursing the Acute Abdomen Patient 109
12 Nursing Urinary Tract Emergencies 123
13 Nursing the Poisoned Patient 133
14 Nursing the Trauma Patient 144
15 Nursing the Reproductive Patient 155
16 Small Animal Critical Care and Hospitalised Patient Nutrition163
17 Nursing the Emergency Ophthalmology Patient 181
18 Cardiopulmonary Arrest and Resuscitation 189
19 Nursing Considerations in the Critical Patient 198
Index 209

Über Autor(innen)

Paul Aldridge BVSc Cert SAS MRCVS
Paul is senior surgeon at Petmedics in Manchester; a hospitalbased practice that hosts the largest out of hours emergencyservice in the UK, dividing his time between emergency cases andsurgical referrals. He is keenly involved in the provision ofCPD on emergency medicine and surgery to both veterinary surgeonsand nurses. His clinical interests include all aspect of emergencysurgery, but particularly the management of multiple traumapatients.
Louise O'Dwyer MBA BSc (Hons) VTS (ECC) Dip AVN(Medical) Dip AVN (Surgical) RVN
Louise gained her Diploma in Advanced Veterinary Nursing(Surgical) in 2004 followed by her Diploma in Advanced VeterinaryNursing (Medical) in 2007 and Veterinary Technician Specialist(Emergency and Critical Care) in 2011. She has contributed to over20 journal articles and books and lectures regularly on all aspectsof emergency and critical care. She worked as Head Nurse forPetMedics in Manchester the largest emergency clinic in the UK forthe past 10 years, and is now Clinical Director. Louise'sinterests include all aspects of emergency care but particularlytrauma and respiratory patients, as well as infection control andwound management.