Cardiac Review, An Issue of Critical Care Nursing Clinics: Cardiac Review, An Issue of Critical Care Nursing ClinicsThis issue of Critical Care Nursing Clinics, Guest Edited by Bobbi Leeper, MN, RN, CNS M-S, CCRN, at Baylor University Medical Center, provides review of Cardiac topics for the practicing nurse. Article topics include: Spectrum of Acute Coronary Syndromes; Mechanical Complications of AMI; Glucose Control in the Cardiovascular Patient; Pulmonary Hypertension; Pulmonary Problems in the Patient with Cardiovascular Disease; Stroke Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery; Surgery on Thoracic Aorta; Heart Valve Surgery; Complications of Cardiac Surgery; Electrolyte Disorders in the Cardiac Patient; and Cardiogenic Shock. |
Contents
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| 547 | |
New and Evolving Therapies | 559 |
Chapter 3 Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery | 573 |
Chapter 4 A Journey Through Heart Valve Surgery | 587 |
Chapter 5 Cardiogenic Shock | 607 |
Pulmonary Embolism and Ventilatorinduced Lung Injury | 617 |
Common terms and phrases
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