1 Good medical practice A.D. Cumming S.I.R. Noble Medical practice The doctor–patient relationship Communication and other clinical skills Using investigations Estimating and communicating risk Clinical decision-making Practising medicine in low-resource…
29 Laboratory reference ranges S.W. Walker Notes on the International System of Units (SI units) Laboratory reference ranges in adults Urea and electrolytes in venous blood Analytes in arterial blood…
12 Palliative care and pain D. Oxenham Principles of palliative care Presenting problems in palliative care Pain Breathlessness Cough Nausea and vomiting Gastrointestinal obstruction Weight loss and general weakness Anxiety…
http://evolve.elsevier.com/McCuistion/pharmacology Objectives • Discuss the metric and household systems of measurement. • Convert larger units to smaller units and smaller units to larger units within the metric system. • Convert…
http://evolve.elsevier.com/McCuistion/pharmacology/ This chapter discusses the antibacterials and their effects and includes mechanisms of antibacterial action, body defenses, resistance to antibacterials, use of antibacterial combinations, general adverse reactions to antibacterials, and…
http://evolve.elsevier.com/McCuistion/pharmacology/ Three groups of drugs—cardiac glycosides, antianginals, and antidysrhythmics—are discussed in this chapter. Drugs in these groups regulate heart contraction, heart rate and rhythm, and blood flow to the myocardium…
http://evolve.elsevier.com/McCuistion/pharmacology Drugs for Pain Control During Labor Labor and delivery are divided into four stages. During the first stage, the dilating stage, cervical effacement and dilation occur; the cervix thins…
http://evolve.elsevier.com/McCuistion/pharmacology/ Cancer-related deaths rank second only to heart disease in the United States. Even though cancer-related mortality has decreased since the early 1990s, approximately 1 in 3 women and 1…
http://evolve.elsevier.com/McCuistion/pharmacology Pain is an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience related to tissue injury. Due to the subjective nature of pain, the nurse must be knowledgeable and skillful in the assessment…
http://evolve.elsevier.com/McCuistion/pharmacology/ Hypertension Hypertension is an increase in blood pressure such that the systolic pressure is greater than 140 mm Hg and the diastolic pressure is greater than 90 mm Hg….
