Monitoring the Critically Ill Patient, 3rd Edition

Monitoring the Critically Ill Patient is an essential, accessible guide to caring for critically ill patients on the general ward. Now fully updated and improved throughout, this well established and handy referenced text assumes no prior knowledge and equips students and newly-qualified staff with the clinical skills and knowledge they need to confidently monitor patients at risk, identify key priorities, and provide prompt and effective care.

This new edition includes the following 5 brand new chapters:

• Monitoring the critically ill child
• Monitoring the critically ill pregnant patient
• Monitoring the patient with infection and related systemic inflammatory response
• Monitoring a patient receiving a blood transfusion
• Monitoring pain