Critical care nursing : learning from practice / edited by Suzanne Bench and Kate Brown

Includes index.

The patient with acute lung injury / Julie Hamilton -- The patient who requiring complex weaning from mechanical ventilation / Cheryl Crocker -- The patient with a fever / Kate Brown -- The patient with severe sepsis / Suzanne Bench -- The patient following cardiac surgery / Maureen Coombs -- The patient with severe upper gastrointestinal bleeding due to oesophageal varices / Suzanne Sargent -- The patient with altered blood sugar / Danielle Fullwood -- The patient with increased abdominal pressure / Suzanne Bench -- The patient with acute kidney injury / Annette Davies and Suzanne Bench -- The patient in acute pain / Tina Moore -- The patient requiring sedation / Sinead Mehigan -- The patient with raised intracranial pressure / Deborah Slade -- The patient with confusion / Deborah Slade and Kate Brown -- The patient with seizures / Claire Merriman -- The patient following poisoning / Sue Whaley -- The patient requiring long term care / Ruth Cork.

Critical Care Nursing: Learning from Practice takes a unique approach to critical care. Based around case scenarios that have the patient as the central focus, each chapter is constructed around an example of a critically ill patient with specific care needs.