AACN Essentials of Critical Care Nursing: Pocket HandbookThis pocket-size (7x4.5"), wire-spiral bound handbook contains selected tables and figures from the textbook, AACN Essentials of Critical Care Nursing, and include items that clinicians are most likely to need at their fingertips, such as critical care drug tables, normal values of lab tests, lists of assessment components, and troubleshooting guides for ventilators and hemodynamic monitoring equipment. Chulay is a critical care nursing consultant. Burns teaches nursing at the University of Virginia Health System. Annotation ©2005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com) |
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50 mL Infuse AACN Administration Guidelines continued airway pressure Amiodarone arrhythmias Assessment atrial fibrillation atrial flutter AV node balloon beats/min Bolus Bolus dose Infusion bradycardia breathing bundle branch cardiac output cardioversion cimetidine ciprofloxacin Conduction decreased digoxin dobutamine dose Infusion dose Dose Range Drug interactions ECG Characteristics effect of neuromuscular electrode endotracheal tube erythromycin heart rate Hemodynamic heparin Infuse over 15-30 Infuse over 60 infusion rate Infusion Times/Comments/Drug Interactions Inject over 60 Intravenous Medication Administration Intubating dose Lidocaine Loading dose Maintenance dose mcg/kg/min Medication Administration Guidelines metabolism inhibited mg in D5W mg/h mg/kg mg/min mL D5W mL Infusion Times/Comments/Drug mL Undiluted monitoring neuromuscular blocking agents node oxygen Peak PEEP PR interval Problem/Causes procainamide Pulmonary Artery QRS complex Quinidine sinus Standard Dilution stopcocks suctioning tachycardia theophylline transducer Treatment Guide continued Troubleshooting Guide continued Undiluted Undiluted Usual IV Dose Usually normal V₁ Ventilatory Troubleshooting Guide ventricles ventricular rate waveform waves