Fluids And Electrolytes An Incredibly Easy Pocket Guide

Fluids and Electrolytes: An Incredibly Easy! Pocket Guide, Second Editionprovides just the essential facts in a streamlined, bulleted quick-reference format, using illustrations, logos, and otherIncredibly Easy!features to help nurses spot key points at a glance. The opening chapters review the basics of fluid, electrolyte, and acid-base balance. Subsequent chapters address specific imbalances, providing vital information for safe and effective care. The last chapter covers such treatments as IV fluid replacement and total parenteral nutrition. This edition has been revised and updated and includes new entries on acute pancreatitis and heat syndrome.

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.

Fluids & Electrolytes Made Incredibly Easy, Sixth Edition, uses a conversational writing style to break down complex concepts and make the fundamentals of fluids and electrolytes easy to understand and put into practice. This fully revised, updated book is organized into four parts to provide comprehensive coverage of this challenging topic: - Fluid, electrolyte, and acid-base basics - Fluid and electrolyte imbalances - The importance and management of imbalances in major health problems - Treatments Each chapter includes clear, simple explanations of health problems, definitions of key terms, illustrations that clearly explain key concepts, memory joggers, and bullets and checklists that make it easy to spot important points at a glance. Chapter summaries provide a quick review of all essential information, and special elements found throughout the text make it easy to remember key points: - Quick-scan tables, illustrations, and flow charts focus on key information - “Ages and stages" icons identify age-related considerations - "Chart smart" sections outline all the points that require documentation for a specific imbalance or condition - "It's not working" icons tell the reader what to do when standard interventions aren't getting results - "Teaching points" focus on topics to teach patients - "Uh-oh" icons help the reader quickly recognize dangerous or life-threatening signs and symptoms - Quick reference appendices on fluid and electrolyte differences in pediatric and geriatric populations.

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.

The text of each chapter contains a brief discussion of the key elements of diagnosis and treatment of a specific electrolyte or acid-base disorder. Practice exercises conclude each chapter.

Fluids and Electrolytes: An Incredibly Easy! Pocket Guide provides just the essential facts in a streamlined, bulleted quick-reference format, using illustrations, logos, and other Incredibly Easy! features to help nurses spot key points at a glance. The opening chapters review the basics of fluid, electrolyte, and acid-base balance. Subsequent chapters address specific imbalances, providing vital information for safe and effective care. The last chapter covers such treatments as IV fluid replacement and total parenteral nutrition. Logos include Memory Joggers; I See, I See; Through the Ages; and Help Desk. Test Zone evaluates the reader's mastery of the subject.

Fluids and Electrolytes There is no doubt, fluid maintenance remains one of the main foundations of medicine. Fluids are deemed as being the most essential substance of life. Around 60% of our body is made up of water, and this serves as a medium for transport of both nutrients and waste products. The electrolytes contained within the body water are responsible for the body's most basic functions, such as nerve function, and functioning of voluntary and involuntary muscles, activating enzymes, and release of hormones. Maintenance of these components in a constant balance is essential, because the entire metabolic process of the body depends on these components. Fluids and electrolytes are not static, but interact continuously with each other, and with other components of the body. It is essential to understand these interactions, and the role they play in maintenance of health. Imbalances in these substances within the body are responsible for some of the most significant medical conditions and disorders. Any patient, who has presented with a fairly serious medical illness, is bound to have some kind of imbalance in the fluid-electrolyte levels. All patients in intensive care units are routinely screened for such imbalances. Thus, it is apparent that a medical professional needs to have a firm grasp of the fundamentals of electrolytes, fluids and acid-base balance in the body, so that effective treatment can be carried out. This subject is often confusing for both the beginner medical student and the day to day medical practitioner. However, once the underlying basic concepts of fluids and electrolytes are grasped, it becomes easy to recognize imbalances in these systems, and it follows that treatment becomes easier and more planned. In this book, we will discuss the regulation of fluids, electrolytes, and the acid-base system, and how these factors are interconnected. When there is an imbalance in one of these electrolytes, the others are usually affected. Similarly, electrolyte imbalances can arise from, or be a result of, acid-base disorders. We will also discuss the signs and symptoms of various imbalances, and touch upon the management modalities for these imbalances. Common medical conditions where there are massive imbalances are described in the last chapter. There are summaries at the end of each chapter, that help you quickly glance through essential information. Lastly, this book tests what you have learned with post chapter tests.