Introduction to critical care nursing / Mary Lou Sole, Deborah G. Klein, Marthe J. Moseley.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Overview of critical care nursing -- Individual and family response to the critical care experience -- Ethical and legal issues in critical care nursing -- Comfort and sedation -- Nutritional support -- Dysrhythmia interpretation -- Hemodynamic monitoring -- Ventilatory assistance -- Code management -- Shock and sepsis -- Cardiovascular alterations -- Nervous system alterations -- Acute respiratory failure -- Acute renal failure -- Hematological and immune disorders -- Gastrointestinal alterations -- Endocrine alterations -- Surgical and trauma management -- Burns.