Covid-19: A Critical Care Textbook - E-Book
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Covid-19: A Critical Care Textbook - E-Book

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Covid-19: A Critical Care Textbook - E-Book

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About This Book

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 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

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Publisher
Elsevier
Year
2021
ISBN
9780702085109
Topic
Medicina
Subtopic
Enfermería

Table of contents

  1. Cover image
  2. Title page
  3. Table of Contents
  4. Copyright
  5. Foreword
  6. List of contributors
  7. Introduction
  8. Chapter 1. Pathophysiology of SARS-CoV-2
  9. Chapter 2. Public health emergencies
  10. Chapter 3. Critical care nurse leadership
  11. Chapter 4. Reorganization of critical care services
  12. Chapter 5. COVID-19 perspectives in low- and low–middle-income countries
  13. Chapter 6. Assessment of the critically ill patient
  14. Chapter 7. Non-invasive ventilation and high-flow nasal oxygen in COVID-19
  15. Chapter 8. Invasive ventilation in COVID-19
  16. Chapter 9. Acute respiratory distress syndrome and the prone position in COVID-19
  17. Chapter 10. Haemodynamic assessment, monitoring and management
  18. Chapter 11. Acute kidney injury
  19. Chapter 12. Neurological care, sedation and pain management
  20. Chapter 13. Resuscitation in COVID-19
  21. Chapter 14. Care of the critically ill obstetric patient
  22. Chapter 15. Providing end-of-life care during the COVID-19 pandemic
  23. Appendix 1. Case studies and self-test questions
  24. Appendix 2. Glossary of terms and blood tests
  25. Index