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Updates and Advances in Cardiovascular Nursing, An Issue of Nursing Clinics
- 1st Edition, Volume 58-3 - August 3, 2023
- Editor: Leslie Davis
- Language: English
- Hardback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 1 8 2 4 8 - 8
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 1 8 2 4 9 - 5
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Contains 15 practice-oriented topics including heart failure: priorities for transition to home; stroke update: focus on hospital management; new pharmacologic treatment for patients with cardiovascular disease; mechanical assist devices in the cardiac intensive care unit; caring for sexual and gender minorities with cardiovascular disease; and more.
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Provides in-depth clinical reviews of advances in cardiovascular nursing, offering actionable insights for clinical practice.
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Presents the latest information on this timely, focused topic under the leadership of experienced editors in the field. Authors synthesize and distill the latest research and practice guidelines to create clinically significant, topic-based reviews.
- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Contributors
- Forthcoming Issues
- Foreword
- Preface
- Focus on Cardiovascular and Stroke Conditions
- Hypertensive Emergencies: Implications for Nurses
- Key points
- Introduction
- Pathophysiology
- Assessment
- Treatment
- Implications for nursing care
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Disclosure
- Heart Failure: Priorities for Transition to Home
- Key points
- Introduction
- Heart failure hospitalization
- Risk for readmission
- Preparing for discharge
- Patient/family education
- Symptom monitoring
- Emergency contact information
- Weight monitoring
- Medication reconciliation
- Dietary sodium restriction
- Follow-up
- Cardiac rehabilitation
- Trajectory
- Clinics care points
- Disclosure
- Dyslipidemia Update
- Key points
- Introduction
- Measurement of lipoproteins
- Patient management groups
- Cardiovascular risk assessment
- Risk enhancing factors
- Lifestyle therapies
- Pharmacologic therapies
- Adherence
- Nurse’s role in strategies for prescribing
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Disclosure
- Stroke: Hospital Nursing Management Within the First 24 Hours
- Key points
- Case studies
- History
- Stat laboratories
- Neuro-imaging
- Neurological examination
- Emergent Management of Stroke: Nurse Role
- Ischemic stroke treatment
- Monitoring during and post-thrombolysis
- Endovascular
- Digital subtraction angiography and endovascular treatment for thrombectomy, coiling, or flow diversion
- Hemorrhagic stroke management
- Managing increased intracranial pressure
- Delayed cerebral ischemia
- Seizure
- Temperature
- Deep venous thrombosis/venous thromboembolism prophylaxis
- Dysphagia screen
- Patient and family support: nursing palliative care
- Clinics care points
- Disclosure
- Evaluation of Wide Complex Tachycardia
- Key points
- Introduction
- Normal cardiac conduction
- Clinical history
- Commonalities among different wide complex tachycardias using electrocardiogram criteria
- An algorithmic approach for evaluating wide complex tachycardia
- Nursing assessment for patients with wide complex tachycardia
- First-line treatment for each in hospitalized patients
- Patient and family education
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Disclosure
- Updates and Advances in Cardiovascular Nursing: Peripheral Arterial Disease
- Key points
- Introduction
- Prevalence of peripheral arterial disease
- Disparities in peripheral arterial disease
- Symptoms of peripheral arterial disease
- Physical examination
- Classification of peripheral arterial disease
- Consequences of critical limb ischemia/critical limb threatening ischemia
- Diagnostic testing
- Treatment of peripheral arterial disease
- Revascularization
- Team-based approach to care
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Disclosure
- Update on Valvular Heart Disease for Registered Nurses
- Key points
- Introduction
- Aortic valve disease: stenosis
- Clinical presentation
- Physical examination
- Risk and frailty assessment
- Diagnostic testing
- Treatment
- Aortic valve disease: regurgitation
- Clinical presentation
- Physical examination
- Diagnostic testing
- Treatment
- Mitral valve disease: stenosis
- Clinical presentation
- Physical examination
- Diagnostic testing
- Treatment
- Mitral valve disease: mitral regurgitation
- Clinical presentation
- Physical examination
- Diagnostic testing
- Treatment
- Tricuspid valve
- Clinical presentation
- Physical examination
- Diagnostic testing
- Treatment
- Postprocedure nursing care
- Patient education
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Disclosure
- Focus on Treatment (Drug and Device Updates)
- Anticoagulation for Stroke Prevention in Atrial Fibrillation
- Key points
- Introduction
- Patient selection
- Oral anticoagulant medications
- Special considerations for direct oral anticoagulant selection
- Complications and reversal
- Clinics care points
- Summary
- Disclosures
- A Pharmacologic Update: New Treatments for Patients with Cardiovascular Disease
- Key points
- Introduction
- Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
- Familial hypercholesterolemia
- Heart failure
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Disclosure
- A Primer on Pacemakers and Defibrillators for Nurses
- Key points
- Introduction
- Pacemakers
- Implantable cardioverter defibrillators
- Cardiac resynchronization therapy
- Novel devices: leadless cardiac pacemakers and subcutaneous implantable cardioverter defibrillators
- Device-related complications
- Remote monitoring of cardiac implantable electronic devices
- Patient education
- Special considerations
- Future directions
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Disclosures
- Mechanical Circulatory Support Therapy in the Cardiac Intensive Care Unit
- Key points
- Introduction
- Indications for Mechanical Circulatory Support
- Next-generation left-sided mechanical circulatory support
- Right-sided mechanical circulatory support devices
- Total artificial heart
- Heart transplantation
- Care of patients with mechanical circulatory support
- Monitoring and surgical lines
- Shared decision-making
- Implications for nursing assessment
- Implications for discharge education
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Disclosure
- Special Populations
- Cardiovascular Disease in Women: An Update for Nurses
- Key points
- Introduction and background
- Common cardiovascular problems in women
- Risk factors for cardiovascular disease in women
- Prevention of cardiovascular disease in women
- Women’s cardiovascular disease symptom presentation
- Diagnostic testing for low-risk chest pain in women
- Patient and family education
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Disclosure
- Caring for Sexual and Gender Minority Adults with Cardiovascular Disease
- Key points
- Introduction
- Discussion
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Disclosure
- Pediatric Murmurs
- Key points
- Introduction
- Resources for nurses caring for pediatric patients
- Review of pediatric cardiac physiology and terminology
- Evaluation of a pediatric patient with a murmur
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Disclosure
- No. of pages: 240
- Language: English
- Edition: 1
- Volume: 58-3
- Published: August 3, 2023
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Hardback ISBN: 9780443182488
- eBook ISBN: 9780443182495
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