Covid-19: A Critical Care Textbook
- 1st Edition - August 11, 2021
- Authors: Chris Carter, Joy Notter
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 7 0 2 0 - 8 3 8 3 - 9
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 7 0 2 0 - 8 5 1 0 - 9
With the major redeployment of staff during the Covid-19 pandemic, this authoritative textbook provides a practical resource for healthcare professionals who may be new to acute an… Read more
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Request a sales quoteWith the major redeployment of staff during the Covid-19 pandemic, this authoritative textbook provides a practical resource for healthcare professionals who may be new to acute and critical care settings.
Written by nurses for nurses, the book will help readers master patient assessment, non-invasive ventilation, the use of high flow nasal oxygenation and renal care. You will learn about the challenges of resuscitation, leadership and responding to a public health emergency, and effective personal protection and hygiene practices.
Covid-19: Critical Care textbook
has been written by experts with frontline experience of working in hospitals during the pandemic and will remain relevant for those responding to future infectious disease outbreaks or waves of Covid-19.- Self-assessment quizzes to support ongoing learning
- Suitable for staff re-deployed and those already working in acute and critical care areas
- Fully illustrated to demonstrate the use of PPE and coronavirus-specific procedures
- Contributions from key experts who have dealt directly with the disease provide practical insights
Experienced critical care nurses and those who have being re-deployed to work in critical care (17,900 critical care nurses in UK at 2018: source CC3N workforce survey report 2018).
- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Foreword
- List of contributors
- Introduction
- Chapter 1. Pathophysiology of SARS-CoV-2
- Introduction to virology
- Coronaviruses in general
- SARS-CoV-2
- Route of infection
- Transmission
- Detection
- Summary
- Chapter 2. Public health emergencies
- Introduction
- Conclusion
- Chapter 3. Critical care nurse leadership
- Leadership in critical care
- Changing models in critical care nursing
- Non-technical skills
- Situational awareness
- Communication
- Decision-making
- Teamwork
- Task management
- Professional accountability, delegation, and responsibility during COVID-19
- Conclusion
- Chapter 4. Reorganization of critical care services
- Critical care before the COVID-19 pandemic
- Responding to the COVID-19 pandemic
- The role of the critical care nurse and redeployed staff
- COVID-19
- Personal protective equipment
- Delivery of critical care
- Leadership
- Policies and practice
- Summary
- Chapter 5. COVID-19 perspectives in low- and low–middle-income countries
- Introduction
- Critical care service delivery
- Conclusion
- Chapter 6. Assessment of the critically ill patient
- Planning for an assessment
- Assessment of the deteriorating ward patient
- Assessment of the critically ill patient
- Respiratory assessment (airway and breathing)
- Cardiovascular assessment
- Neurological assessment (disability)
- Exposure and essential care
- Chapter 7. Non-invasive ventilation and high-flow nasal oxygen in COVID-19
- Continuous positive airway pressure
- Bilevel positive airway pressure
- HFNO
- Nursing considerations for patients requiring NIV, HFNO and CPAP
- Conclusion
- Chapter 8. Invasive ventilation in COVID-19
- Invasive ventilation
- Volume control and pressure control
- Assembly of the ventilator
- Care of a patient requiring invasive ventilation
- Ventilator-associated pneumonia
- Humidification
- Improving oxygenation in COVID-19 patients
- Early mobilization of mechanically ventilated patients
- Weaning from invasive ventilation
- Nursing care of a suspected or confirmed COVID-19 patient with a tracheostomy
- Conclusion
- Chapter 9. Acute respiratory distress syndrome and the prone position in COVID-19
- Respiratory failure
- Considerations for resource-limited environments
- Prone position
- Conscious prone position
- Turning a conscious patient into the prone position
- De-proning
- Prone position (unconscious)
- Turning a patient into the prone position
- Conclusion
- Chapter 10. Haemodynamic assessment, monitoring and management
- Patient assessment
- Electrocardiogram
- Interpreting cardiac rhythms
- Heart sounds
- Transducing
- Invasive blood pressure monitoring
- Central venous pressure
- Neurovascular observations
- Central and peripheral capillary refill
- Skin integrity, colour and temperature
- Oedema
- Temperature
- Checking for signs of DVT
- Advanced haemodynamic monitoring
- Pump up the pressure: fluid versus vasopressors
- Vasopressor therapy
- Double pumping
- Sepsis and shock due to COVID-19
- Conclusion
- Chapter 11. Acute kidney injury
- Anatomy and physiology of renal function and fluid balance
- Classification of AKI
- Prerenal
- Intrarenal
- Post-renal
- Guidelines for practice
- Nursing practice
- Conclusion
- Chapter 12. Neurological care, sedation and pain management
- Neurological assessment
- Sedation
- Neuromuscular blockade
- Pain assessment
- Non-pharmacological approaches
- Pharmacological approaches
- Delirium
- Conclusion
- Chapter 13. Resuscitation in COVID-19
- Introduction
- Advanced care planning
- Professional and patient safety
- Recognition of the deteriorating patient
- Recognition of cardiac arrest
- Calling for help
- Assessment of rhythm
- Non-shockable rhythms
- Shockable rhythms
- Defibrillation
- Chest compressions
- Vascular access
- Drugs
- Airway management
- Reversible causes and aetiology
- Communication
- Termination of attempt
- Post-resuscitative care
- Equipment
- Debriefing
- Conclusion
- Chapter 14. Care of the critically ill obstetric patient
- Introduction
- Conclusion and recommendations
- Chapter 15. Providing end-of-life care during the COVID-19 pandemic
- End-of-life care in the era of COVID-19
- Communication
- Withdrawal of treatment
- Withdrawing versus withholding
- Grief and loss
- Heart fingerprint project
- Staff health and well-being
- Conclusion
- Appendix 1. Case studies and self-test questions
- Appendix 2. Glossary of terms and blood tests
- Index
- No. of pages: 272
- Language: English
- Edition: 1
- Published: August 11, 2021
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Paperback ISBN: 9780702083839
- eBook ISBN: 9780702085109
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Chris Carter
Affiliations and expertise
Senior Lecturer, Birmingham City University, Westbourne Road, Edgbaston
Birmingham
UKJN
Joy Notter
Affiliations and expertise
Professor of Community Health Care Studies
Faculty of Health, Education & Life Sciences
Birmingham City University