Fluid And Electrolyte Notes

This handy guide provides the crucial coverage you need to quickly recall the signs, symptoms, and treatments of common fluid, electrolyte, and acid-base imbalances. Its simple and direct approach makes an often challenging subject easier to understand and its easy-to-use format make it the perfect reference for any setting.

A complete outline and course review in one book, now including study questions, key points in color, learning objectives, and abundant white space for notes. Also added is a StudySmart disk with more than 100 NCLEX-style, multiple-choice questions with answer rationales, nursing process step, client needs category, and taxonomic level. Brand-new decision trees, chapter overviews, patient-teaching tips, and clinical alerts boost learning and promote critical thinking. Contents include essential concepts of fluid and electrolyte balance; water balance; electrolyte balance; acid-base balance; water imbalances; electrolyte imbalances; acid-base imbalances; fluid and electrolyte replacement therapy; conditions associated with fluid, electrolyte, and acid-base imbalances; appendices; selected references; and index.

Compares different types of parenteral and enteral feedings, along with nursing implications Contains expanded and updated relevant IV therapy and pharmacology Features updated content throughout with current literature and research findings, such as most current blood pressure guidelines from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

This popular reference offers well-balanced coverage of fluid, electrolyte, and acid-base disorders. Thorough without going into extraneous detail, it synthesizes key theoretical and clinical information in a way that is easy to understand and apply. The 3rd Edition presents the most recent discoveries about molecular biology...acute and chronic hyponatremia...endogenous acid production...and much more.

Now in its third edition, this informative and indispensable reference reviews fundamental information about fluids, electrolytes, and acid-based balance; identifies electrolyte fluid, acid, and base imbalances; describes imbalances in major health problems, and more in an easy-to-understand format.

Fluid, Electrolyte and Acid-Base Disorders: Clinical Evaluation & Management is a clear and concise presentation of the fundamentals of fluid, electrolyte and acid-base disorders frequently encountered in clinical practice. Each chapter begins with pertinent basic physiology followed by its clinical disorder. Cases for each fluid, electrolyte and acid-base disorder are discussed with answers. In addition, board-type questions with explanations are provided for each clinical disorder to increase the knowledge for the clinician. Practical and clinically oriented, this book is a handy reference for practicing physicians, students, residents and fellows.

Here’s all of the crucial coverage you need to succeed in class and confidently prepare for your classroom exams and the NCLEX. Easy-to-follow outlines focus on the information essential to make this challenging subject more manageable.