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Medical abbreviations & normal ranges : survival guide /

Part of the skill of nursing and healthcare involves being able to decipher and understand the meanings of results and abbreviations. Fully updated, this second edition is a handy survival guide which will supply you with up-to-date information and help you understand this language, so that you can...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Jones, Helen, RGN (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2019.
Edición:Second edition.
Colección:Nursing & health survival guides.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Abbreviations and acronyms
  • Conventional units of measurement
  • Normal ranges
  • Cardiovascular
  • Pulse Sites
  • Blood pressure stages
  • Biochemistry
  • Blood composition
  • Coagulation screen
  • Cardiac enzymes
  • Hormones levels
  • Respiratory
  • Respiration rates
  • Tidal volumes
  • Arterial blood gases
  • Acid-base balance
  • Peak flow readings
  • Neurological
  • Glasgow coma scale (GCS)
  • Renal
  • Urinanalysis
  • Fluid balance
  • Nutritional assessment
  • MUST
  • Patients at risk scores
  • NEWS
  • PEWS.