Introduction to critical care nursing / edited by Mary Lou Sole [and 4 others].

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part 1 Fundamentals concepts -- Overview of critical care nursing -- Patient and family response to the critical care experience -- Ethical and legal issues in critical care nursing -- Palliative and end-of-life care -- Organ donation -- Comfort and sedation -- Part 2 Tools for the critical care nurse -- Nutritional theraphy -- Dysrhythmia interpretation and management -- Hemodynamic monitoring -- Ventilatory assistance -- Rapid response teams and code management -- Part 3 Nursing care during critical illness -- Shock, sepsis, and Multiple organ dysfunction syndrome -- Cardiovascular alterations -- Nervous system alterations -- Acute respiratory failure -- Acute kidney injury -- Hematological and immune disorders -- Gastrointestinal alterations -- Endocrine alterations -- Trauma and surgical management -- Burns.