International Perspectives in Critical Care Nursing, An Issue of Critical Care Nursing Clinics of North America
- 1st Edition, Volume 33-1 - February 1, 2021
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Editor: Christi Delemos
- Language: English
- Hardback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 7 7 6 3 4 - 9
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 7 7 6 3 5 - 6
In consultation with Consulting Editor, Dr. Cynthia Bautista, Guest Editor Christi Delemos has created an issue of Critical Care Nursing Clinics that gives the readers an… Read more
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Request a sales quoteIn consultation with Consulting Editor, Dr. Cynthia Bautista, Guest Editor Christi Delemos has created an issue of Critical Care Nursing Clinics that gives the readers an opportunity to discover critical care nursing practices from critical care nurses around the world. Authors will have the opportunity to share the contributions of critical care nurses to health care globally. Current challenges in managing critical care patients anywhere in the world are discussed; articles are specifically devoted to ICU Nursing Priorities in the United States; Caring for Traumatic Brain Injury Patients: Australian Nursing Perspectives; Use of Diaries in ICU Delirium Patients: German Nursing Perspectives; Caring for Patients with Aneurysmal Subarachnnoid Hemorrhage: Nursing Perspectives from the UK; Critical Care Nursing in India; Nursing Priorities in Critical Care Nursing in the Philippines; The Glasgow Coma Scale: A European and Global Perspective on Enhancing Practice; and Care of the Patient with Acquired Brain Injury in Latin America and the Caribbean. Readers will come away with new perspectives of care for the critical care patient.
- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Contributors
- Forthcoming Issues
- Preface: Global Intensive Care Management Strategies
- Intensive Care Unit Nursing Priorities in the United States
- Key points
- Introduction/history/definitions/background
- Discussion
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Caring for Traumatic Brain Injury Patients: Australian Nursing Perspectives
- Key points
- Introduction—Australian health care
- Mechanism of injury
- Management of traumatic brain injury in Australian emergency departments
- Glasgow Coma Scale
- Posttraumatic amnesia
- Concussion
- Second impact syndrome
- Adolescents and concussion
- Considerations for managing a patient with a traumatic brain injury
- Discharge following traumatic brain injury from the emergency department or ward
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Use of Diaries in Intensive Care Unit Delirium Patients: German Nursing Perspectives
- Key points
- Post–intensive care syndrome
- Intensive care unit diaries
- Clinics care points
- Caring for Patients with Aneurysmal Subarachnoid Hemorrhage: Nursing Perspectives from the United Kingdom
- Key points
- Introduction
- Pathophysiology and epidemiology
- Research and clinical trials
- Investigations, treatments, and complications
- Complications
- Follow-up
- Multidisciplinary team
- Role of neurovascular clinical nurse specialists
- Discussion
- Future directions
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Critical Care Nursing in India
- Key points
- Introduction
- Recruitment and training of critical care nurses
- A model institution: quality process through transparency, education, and support
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Critical Care Nursing in the Philippines: Historical Past, Current Practices, and Future Directions
- Key points
- Brief historical background
- Current practice
- Implications and future directions
- The Glasgow Coma Scale: A European and Global Perspective on Enhancing Practice
- Key points
- Introduction
- The Glasgow Coma Scale over time
- Standardization of the Glasgow Coma Scale
- Glasgow Coma Scale as part of preregistration nursing curricula
- Person-centeredness and the Glasgow Coma Scale
- The way forward
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Care of the Patient with Acquired Brain Injury in Latin America and the Caribbean
- Key points
- Brain injury in Latin America
- The three delays model in the care of patients with brain injury
- The life at home
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Edition: 1
- Volume: 33-1
- Published: February 1, 2021
- Imprint: Elsevier
- No. of pages: 240
- Language: English
- Hardback ISBN: 9780323776349
- eBook ISBN: 9780323776356