CONTENTS :
1. Overview of Critical Care Nursing
2. The Critical Care Experience
3. Ethical and Legal Issues in Critical Care Nursing
4. End of Life Care in the Critical Care Unit
5. Comfort and Sedation
6. Nutritional Support
7. Dysrhythmia Interpretation and Management
8. Hemodynamic Monitoring
9. Ventilatory Assistance
10. Code Management
11. Shoock, Sepsis, and Multiple Organ Dysfunction Syndrome
12. Cardiovascular Alterations
13. Nervous System Alterations
14. Acute Respiratory Failure
15. Acute Renal Failure
16. Hematological and Immune Disorders
17. Gastrointestinal Alterations
18. Endocrine Alternations
19. Trauma and Surgical Management
20. Burns