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Pocket Guide to Fluid, Electrolyte, and Acid-Base Balance

  • 5 Edición - 20 de octubre de 2004
  • Última edición
  • Autores: Ursula Heitz, Mima M. Horne
  • Idioma: Inglés

With its concise, user-friendly outline format, this handy pocket guide is the indispensable consultant for fluid, electrolyte, and acid-base disturbances and how they relate to… Leer más

Descripción

With its concise, user-friendly outline format, this handy pocket guide is the indispensable consultant for fluid, electrolyte, and acid-base disturbances and how they relate to patient care. Readers will discover pathophysiology, assessment, diagnostic tests, collaborative management, and nursing diagnoses and interventions reviewed in a logical, consistent, and easy-to-read manner.

Puntos claves

  • Helps readers identify a patient's specific imbalance and understand the required nursing care
  • Provides the ability to look up a diagnosis and learn what fluid, electrolyte, or acid-base disturbances are associated with that diagnosis
  • Includes patient-family teaching guidelines with clear instructions to give the patient and family regarding care for the condition
  • Provides pediatric and geriatric information to help users understand the variations within these special patient populations

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UNIT I BASIC PRINCIPLES


1. Overview of Fluid and Electrolyte Balance


2. Regulation of Vascular Volume and Extracellular Fluid Osmolality


3. Fluid Gains and Losses


4. Nursing Assessment of the Patient at Risk


5. Laboratory Assessment of Fluid, Electrolyte, and Acid-Base Balance

UNIT II DISORDERS OF FLUID, ELECTROLYTE, AND ACID-BASE BALANCE


6. Disorders of Fluid Balance


7. Disorders of Sodium Balance


8. Disorders of Potassium Balance


9. Disorders of Calcium Balanc


10. Disorders of Phosphorus Balance


11. Disorders of Magnesium Balance


12. Overview of Acid-Base Balance


13. Respiratory Acidosis


14. Respiratory Alkalosis
15. Metabolic Acidosis


16. Metabolic Alkalosis


17. Mixed Acid-Base Disorders

UNIT III CLINICAL CONDITIONS ASSOCIATED WITH FLUID, ELECTROLYTE, AND ACID-BASE IMBALANCE


18. Gastrointestinal Disorders


19. Surgical Disturbances


20. Endocrinologic Disorders


21. Cardiac Disorders


22. Renal Failure


23. Acute Pancreatitis


24. Hepatic Failure


25. Burns


26. Providing Nutritional Support

APPENDIX A: Standard Abbreviations

APPENDIX B: Glossary

APPENDIX C: Effects of Age on Fluid, Electrolyte, and Acid-Base Balance

APPENDIX D: Normal Laboratory Values and New Blood Pressure Guidelines

Detalles del producto

  • Edición: 5
  • Última edición
  • Publicado: 26 de octubre de 2004
  • Idioma: Inglés

Sobre los autores

UH

Ursula Heitz

Afiliaciones y experiencia
Nursing Consultant, Nashville, TN

MH

Mima M. Horne

Afiliaciones y experiencia
New Hanover Regional Medical Center, Adjunct Faculty, University of North Carolina at Wilmington, Wilmington, NC