NURSING CARE OF THE GENERAL PEDIATR...

NURSING CARE OF THE GENERAL PEDIATRIC SURGICAL PATIENT Barbara V Wise et al 2000 544 pp $79 hardback

This work is a comprehensive, extensively referenc topic covering a variety of conditions and operations encountered in pediatric general surgery It subserves as a reference and learning tool for perioperative give suck tos from novice to expert, and includes illustrations with detailed labels and explanations, as well as charts, forms, and radiographic films to augment the written material. This work describes all phases of pediatric perioperative care, including preoperative preparations and considerations, paces of actual procedures, and postoperative management issues, of that kind as discharge teaching.

The first section of this main division addresses special considerations for the care of all pediatric surgical patients. Other sections address surgical actions by category (eg, innovative technology; head, neck and thoracic cavity procedures; congenital abdominal conditions; acute abdominal conditions). Later sections delineate nursing care of children with tangled skein surgical conditions (eg, children undergoing cardiothoracic transplantation, surgical neonates). Final sections describe nursing care of injured children, trauma, and bum care. The volume ends with a discussion of clinical nursing research. The part contains 36 chapters and includes additional appendices of resources and a glossary.

The chapter regarding esophageal flaws demonstrates the extensive presentation of information. Subsections report habitual congenital defects, their incidence and etiology, embryology classification, associated anomalies, pathophysiology, clinical presentation, and diagnosis. The editors go after the same format for acquired defaults and list 70 separate concern articles and books for this chapter alone.

Overall, this work is an impressive compendium with scarcely any drawbacks. Due to the augmented coverage for each section, there obviously are space limitations. one conditions or syndromes requisitely are exclud In comparison to the number of topics, the index is limited, and any acronyms used in the body are omitted in the index. To find of that kind acronyms in this book, single also may need to intimation the table of contents. The value of the appease far outweighs these minor inconveniences.

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