Suzanne Bench & Kate Brown 
Critical Care Nursing 
Learning from Practice

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. The chapters then go on to critically explore the knowledge
and skills required to deliver expert care. This book looks at a
range of critical care scenarios, including:

* The patient with acute lung injury

* The patient with fever

* The patient with an acute kidney injury

* The patient with long term needs

* The patient with increased intra-abdominal pressure

* The Patient following cardiac surgery

Each chapter develops knowledge of the related
physiology/pathophysiology, appropriate nursing interventions that
are research/evidence based, technical skills, data interpretation
and critical appraisal skills, enabling the reader to apply
fundamental knowledge to more complex patient problems.
Critical Care Nursing: Learning from Practice is an essential
resource for practitioners faced with complex and challenging
patient cases.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contributor list.

Preface.

Acknowledgements.

1 The patient with acute lung injury (ALI) (Julie
Hamilton).

2 The patient requiring complex weaning from mechanical
ventilation (Dr. Cheryl Crocker).

3 The patient with fever (Kate Brown).

4 The patient with severe sepsis (Suzanne
Bench).

5 The patient following cardiac surgery (Dr. Maureen
Coombs).

6 The patient with severe upper gastrointestinal bleeding due
to oesophageal varices (Suzanne Sargent).

7 The patient with altered blood glucose (Danielle
Fullwood).

8 The patient with increased abdominal pressure
(Suzanne Bench).

9 The patient with an acute kidney injury (Annette
Davies and Suzanne Bench).

10 The patient in acute pain (Dr. Sinead
Mehigan).

11 The patient requiring sedation (Tina
Moore).

12 The patient with raised intracranial pressure
(Deborah Slade).

13 The patient with delirium (Deborah Slade and Kate
Brown).

14 The patient with seizure activity (Clair
Merriman).

15 The patient following poisoning (Sue
Whaley).

16 The patient with long-term needs (Ruth
Cork).

17 The patient requiring end-of-life care (Ruth
Cork).

Appendices.

Index.

Über den Autor

Suzanne Bench is a Lecturer in Critical Care Nursing at the
Florence Nightingale School of Nursing and Midwifery, Kings College
London. She is also Link lecturer for the Intensive Care unit at St
Thomas Hospital

Kate Brown is Lecturer in Critical Care Nursing. Course
leader for post registration High Dependency Nursing courses and
the Physiology for nursing at the Florence Nightingale School of
Nursing and Midwifery, Kings College London.