Main description:

This book is an excellent overview of the care and management of critically ill patients. The book has been written for nursing faculty, postgraduate and undergraduate nursing students, and nurses working in intensive care setups. Nurses working in other bedside areas will find this book to be equally useful. The contributors to the book are the eminent nursing and medical faculty from all over India. The book provides comprehensive and in-depth coverage of caring for a critically ill patient along with appropriate illustrations. Several new topics, such as nursing management of brain dead organ donors, care of patients admitted in ICU, standard safety measures, the role of nurses in Acute Stroke Management, and transfer of a critically ill patient, have been covered in the book. It has the material and knowledge to become the preferred reference for state of art nursing practice. Authors' own professional experiences and the addition of evidence from other research studies regarding the topics under discussion make the current book different.