Keogh - Cardiovascular Nursing Demystified

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This book is dedicated to Anne, Sandy, Joanne, Amber-Leigh Christine, Shawn, Eric, and Amy. Without their help and support, this book couldnt have been written.

Jim Keogh, RN-BC, MSN

Jim Keogh, RN-BC, MSN, is Board Certified in Psychiatric-Mental Health and has written McGraw-Hills Nursing Demystified series. These include Behavioral Health and Psychiatric Nursing Demystified, Healthcare Informatics Demystified, Pharmacology Demystified, Microbiology Demystified, Medical-Surgical Nursing Demystified, Medical Billing and Coding Demystified, Nursing Laboratory and Diagnostic Tests Demystified, Dosage Calculations Demystified, Medical Charting Demystified, Pediatric Nursing Demystified, Nurse Management Demystified, Schaums Outline of ECG Interpretations, Schaums Outline of Medical Terminology, and Schaums Outline of Emergency Nursing. His books can be found in leading university libraries, including Yale School of Medicine, Yale University, University of Pennsylvania Biomedical Library, Columbia University, Brown University, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, Cambridge University, and Oxford University. He is a former member of the faculty at Columbia University and is a member of the faculty of New York University School of Nursing and Saint Peters University in New Jersey.

Every patient knows how to seek medical help when his or her chest discomfort becomes too much to bear. However, how does the health care provider determine what is wrong and what to do to restore the patient to good health? The answer depends on the patients signs and symptoms and the results from medical tests. In this book you will learn to identify these signs and symptoms, interpret the medical test results, and perform the nursing interventions that will assist in solving or alleviating the patients cardiovascular problem.

Cardiovascular Nursing Demystified contains 10 chapters, each providing a roadmap to the cardiovascular system and the diseases and disorders that can affect that system. The discussion of each disease or disorder is divided into the following sections:

What Went Wrong?

Prognosis

Hallmark Signs and Symptoms

Interpreting Test Results

Treatment

Nursing Diagnoses

Nursing Intervention

Crucial Diagnostic Tests

The What Went Wrong? section presents a brief description of how the body is affected when the particular disease or disorder occurs. The Prognosis section discusses the possibilities of curing this disease and permanent damage that can occur. The remaining sections present the information as lists of symptoms, diagnoses, etc that make it easy for you to learn and that also serve as a useful tool for later reference.