This pocket-size (7x4.5"), wire-spiral bound handbook contains selected tables and figures from the textbook, AACN Essentials of Critical Care Nursing, and include items that clinicians are most likely to need at their fingertips, such as critical care drug tables, normal values of lab tests, lists of assessment components, and troubleshooting guides for ventilators and hemodynamic monitoring equipment. Chulay is a critical care nursing consultant. Burns teaches nursing at the University of Virginia Health System. Annotation ©2005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Mariannce Chulay, RN DNSc FAAN, Consultant, Clinical Research and Critical Care Nursing, Chapel Hill, NCSuzanne M. Burns, RN, MSN, RRT, ACNP, CCRN, FAAN, FCCM is a Professor of Nursing, Acute and Specialty Care at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USAThe American Association of Critical-Care Nurses is the world's largest specialty nursing organization, representing more than 400,000 acute and critical care nurses and serving more than 100,000 members, certificants and nurse constituents.

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