AACN Essentials of Critical Care Nursing PDF free – Pocket Handbook
by Bilal Qasim
AACN Essentials of Critical Care Nursing PDF Free is another BNS book for USA and international students. If you’re doing a Bachelor of Science in Nursing then this book can help you to clear your concept more. Given the complexity of critical care practice today, it is impossible for even experienced clinicians to remember all the information needed to provide safe and effective care for critically ill patients. Physicians often need to use a variety of clinical resources to verify drug information, normal laboratory and physiologic values, ECG and hemodynamic monitoring information, emergency algorithms, and other essential patient management data. To save time and avoid frustration, doctors often create their own “pocket guides” by cutting and pasting information from a variety of sources so they always have a quick reference source available.
The AACN Essentials of Critical Care Nursing pocket manual is designed to provide busy clinicians with an easy-to-use resource that can literally fit in their pocket. The pocket manual contains selected tables and figures from the textbook, AACN Essentials of Critical Care Nursing, and includes items clinicians are likely to need close at hand:
Table of normal values for laboratory tests and physiological parameters
Lists of evaluation components
Cardiac rhythms: ECG characteristics and treatment guidelines including samples of rhythm strips
12-lead ECG changes in myocardial ischemia and acute infarction
Troubleshooting guides for hemodynamic monitoring equipment
Indications for mechanical ventilation
Weaning assessment tool
Interpretation of chest radiographs
Topics of AACN Essentials of Critical Care Nursing PDF
1.1 Normal Values Table Section 2. Assessment 2.1 Summary of Prearrival and Admission Quick Check Assessments 2.2 Summary of Comprehensive Admission Assessment Requirements 2.3 Suggested Questions for Review of Past History Categorized by Body System 2.4 Ongoing Assessment Template 2.5 Identification of Symptom Characteristics 2.6 Chest Pain Assessment 2.7 Pain Assessment Tools Commonly Used in Critically Ill Patients 2.8 CAM-ICU Worksheet 2.9 Glasgow Coma Scale 2.10 Sensory Dermatomes 2.11 Edema Rating Scale 2.12 Peripheral Pulse Rating Scale 2.13 Physiologic Effects of Aging Section 3. ECG Concepts 3.1 ECG Lead Placement for a Three-Wire System 3.2 ECG Lead Placement for a Five-Wire System 3.3 Twelve-Lead ECG Placement 3.4 Right Side ECG Chest Lead Placement 3.5 Waves, Complexes, and Intervals 3.6 Heart Rate Determination 3.7 Heart Rate Determination Using the Electrocardiogram Large Boxes 3.8 Recommended Leads for Continuous ECG Monitoring 3.9 Advantages of Common Monitoring Leads 3.10 Evidence-Based Practice: Bedside Cardiac Monitoring for Arrhythmia Detection 3.11 Evidence-Based Practice: ST-Segment Monitoring 3.12 Cardiac Rhythms, ECG Characteristics, and Treatment Guide 3.13 Guidelines for Management of Atrial Fibrillation and Atrial Flutter (Class I Recommendations Only) 3.14 Guidelines for Management of Supraventricular Arrhythmias (Class I Recommendations Only) 3.15 Guidelines for Management of Ventricular Arrhythmias (Class I Recommendations Only) 3.16 Normal 12-Lead ECG Waves 3.17 Normal ST Segment and T Waves 3.18 Zones of Myocardial Ischemia, Injury, and Infarction with Associated ECG Changes 3.19 ECG Patterns Associated with Myocardial Ischemia 3.20 ECG Patterns Associated with Acute Myocardial Injury 3.21 ECG Changes Associated with Myocardial Infarction 3.22 Typical Plasma Profiles 3.23 Clinical Presentation of Myocardial Ischemia and Infarction 3.24 Evidence-Based Practice: Acute Coronary Syndrome ST-Elevation MI and Non–ST-Elevation MI 3.25 Summary of Causes of Axis Deviations 3.26 ECG Clues for Differentiating Aberration from Ventricular Ectopy 3.27 Pacemaker Codes 3.28 Dual-Chamber Pacing Modes Section 4. Cardiovascular Concepts 4.1 Intra-Aortic Balloon Pump Frequency of 1:2 4.2 Intra-Aortic Balloon Pump Frequency of 1:1 4.3 Inaccurate Intra-Aortic Balloon Pump Timing 4.4 Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support (ACLS) Pulseless Arrest Algorithm 4.5 Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support (ACLS) Bradycardia Algorithm 4.6 Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support (ACLS) Tachycardia Algorithm 4.7 Problems Encountered with Arterial Catheters 4.8 Inaccurate Arterial Pressure Measurements 4.9 Pulmonary Artery Port Functions 4.10 Leveling of the PA Catheter 4.11 Referencing and Zeroing the Hemodynamic Monitoring System 4.12 Assessing Damping Concepts from Square Wave Test 4.13 Pressure Waveforms Observed during Pulmonary Artery Catheter Insertion 4.14 Pulmonary Artery Waveform and Components 4.15 Effect of a Mechanical Ventilator Breath on PA Waveform 4.16 Reading End Expiration Before a Spontaneous Breath 4.17 Evidence-Based Practice: Pulmonary Artery Pressure Measurement 4.18 Problems Encountered with Pulmonary Artery Catheters 4.19 Inaccurate Pulmonary Artery Pressure Measurements 4.20 Troubleshooting Problems with Thermodilution Cardiac Output Measurements 4.21 Common Inotropic Therapies in Treating Abnormal Hemodynamics 4.22 Common Preload Reducers for Abnormal Hemodynamics 4.23 Common Afterload Reducing Agents Section 5. Respiratory Concepts 5.1 Normal Chest X-Ray 5.2 Mediastinal Structures Visible on a Chest X-Ray 5.3 Chest X-Ray of COPD 5.4 Chest X-Ray of Pneumothorax 5.5 Chest X-Ray of Right Lower Lobe Pneumonia 5.6 Chest X-Ray Showing Carina and Right Bronchus 5.7 Chest X-Ray with PA Catheter, ET Tube, and Chest Tube 5.8 Acid-Base Abnormalities 5.9 Indications for Mechanical Ventilation 5.10 Pulmonary Specific Wean Criteria Thresholds 5.11 Burns’ Wean Assessment Program (BWAP) 5.12 Algorithm for Management of Ventilator Alarms and/or Development of Acute Respiratory Distress 5.13 Algorithm to Correct Hypoxaemia in an Acute COPD Patient Section 6. Neurologic Concepts 6.1 Glasgow Coma Scale 6.2 Cranial Nerve Function 6.3 Circle of Willis 6.4 Incomplete Spinal Cord Injury Syndromes 6.5 Spinal Cord Injury–Functional Goals for Specific Levels of Complete Injury 6.6 Intracranial Pressure Monitoring Systems Section 7. Pharmacology Tables
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