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...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Autor principal: | |
Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
Publicado: |
London ; New York, NY :
Routledge,
2019.
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Edición: | Second edition. |
Colección: | Nursing & health survival guides.
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Temas: | |
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.