Practical resuscitation :recognition and response / edited by Pam Moule and John W. Albarran
[book]
Oxford ;Malden, MA
: Blackwell Pub.
, 2005
xiii, 286 p.
:ill
Essential clinical skills for nurses
Includes bibliographical references and index
Professional, ethical and legal issues -- Recognising the sick patient and preventing cardiac arrest -- Resuscitation equipment -- Chain of survival -- Basic life support algorithm -- The universal advanced life support algorithm -- Management of the airway and breathing -- Monitoring and assessing cardiac rhythms -- Defibrillation theory and practice -- Drugs and delivery -- Management of potentially reversible causes of cardiac arrest -- Post-resuscitation care -- Special circumstances -- Resuscitation of the seriously injured casualty -- Out-of-hospital resuscitation.