Monitoring the Critically Ill Patient

Philip Jevon is Resuscitation Officer/Clinical Skills Lead, Manor Hospital, Walsall. He is Honorary Clinical Lecturer at Birmingham Medical School, and Editor of The British Journal of Resuscitation Beverley Ewens is Nurse Manager in Critical Care at Joondalup Health Campus, Perth, Western Australia. She is an ALS instructor and Course Director for the ALERT course at Walsall.

• Foreword viiPreface ixContributors xi1 Recognition and Management of the Deteriorating Patient 12 Assessment of the Critically Ill Patient 253 Monitoring Respiratory Function 394 Monitoring Cardiovascular Function 1: ECG Monitoring 915 Monitoring Cardiovascular Function 2: Haemodynamic Monitoring 1156 Monitoring Neurological Function 1547 Monitoring Renal Function 1778 Monitoring Gastrointestinal Function 1979 Monitoring Hepatic Function 20910 Monitoring Endocrine Function 21811 Monitoring Nutritional Status 23112 Monitoring Temperature 24413 Monitoring Pain 25814 Monitoring a Patient Receiving a Blood Transfusion 26715 Monitoring the Patient with Infection and Related Systemic Inflammatory Response 28116 Monitoring the Critically Ill, Pregnant Patient 30217 Monitoring the Critically Ill Child 32018 Monitoring During Transport 33619 Record Keeping 346Index 355

“This would be a helpful guide for nurses working in any acute setting; acute wards, coronary care, critical care outreach or the emergency department. It is also a good introductory tool for critical care nurses explaining the principles of assessment, different types of invasive monitoring and waveforms and so on.”  (Nursing Times, 17 October 2012)