Respiratory Care: Essential Clinical Skills for Nurses

Respiratory care is a beginner′s guide to care of patients with respiratory illness. It contains evidence–based guidelines to enable students and newly qualified staff to develop the essential clinical skills needed to care for all patients with respiratory disease.
Respiratory Care explores the anatomy and physiology of the respiratory system, examines assessment of respiratory function, and addresses day–to–day management of asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, bronchitis, lung cancer and respiratory infections including TB and pneumonia, in order to improve quality of life.

Spis treści:
1. Respiratory Anatomy and Physiology.
2. Asthma.
3. COPD.
4. Nebulisers and Inhalers.
5. Oxygen Therapy.
6. Lung Cancer.
7. Respiratory Infections.
8. Respiratory Assessment

Nota biograficzna:
Caia Francis is a Lecturer at the University of the West of England.

Okładka tylna:
Respiratory care is a beginner′s guide to care of patients with respiratory illness. It contains evidence–based guidelines to enable students and newly qualified staff to develop the essential clinical skills needed to care for all patients with respiratory disease.
Respiratory Care explores the anatomy and physiology of the respiratory system, examines assessment of respiratory function, and addresses day–to–day management of asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, bronchitis, lung cancer and respiratory infections including TB and pneumonia, in order to improve quality of life.