10th Edition

ISBN: 978-0-932-887-64-1
2021

Overview Table of Contents (by chapter)

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1: Clinical Assessment

• Expanded and Rewritten!
• New! Head-to-Toe Assessment
• New! Expanded Vital Signs Pages
• New! Expanded Auscultation Guides
• New! Thoracic Diagrams
• New! Section on Dyspnea

2: Acid-Base

• New! Normal Arterial versus Venous Values
• New! Sections on Respiratory and Metabolic Acidosis vs. Alkalosis

3: Chest Imaging

• New! CT Scan Overview
• New! MRI Scan Overview
• New! Thoracic Ultrasound Overview

4: Labs and Cultures

• Expanded and Rewritten!
• New! Sputum Characteristics

5: Pulmonary Dynamics

• Expanded and Simplified!

6: Pulmonary Function Testing

• New! Components of PFTs
• New! Respiratory Parameters

7: Hemodynamics

• New! Blood Flow Through the Heart
• New! Catheters/Lines Overview
• New! Right vs. Left Heart Failure

8: Cardiac Monitoring

• New! 12-Lead and 15-Lead ECGs placement
• New! Labeled ECG and Explanations
• New! Steps of Interpretation
• New! ECG Paper explanation
• New! Cardiac Ischemia

9: Respiratory Therapies

• New! Procedures for Various Aerosol Devices
• New! Continuous Bronchodilator Procedures
• New! Modified Mallampati Scores
• New! Expanded Trach Troubleshooting
• New! AAO-HNS Capping and Decannulation Algorithm
• New! Expanded Suctioning Pressures/Sizing
• New! Transcutaneous Monitoring
• New! Hypoxemia Signs by Severity
• New! Oxygen Targets
• New! Gases Other than Oxygen Table

10: Diseases and Disorders

• New! Improved, Cleaner Layout
• Nearly Every Disease Updated
• New! Acute Coronary Syndrome
• New! Cystic Fibrosis
• New! Drug Overdose
• New! Heart Failure completely rewritten
• New! Immunocompromised
• New! Traumas Section
• New! Viral Infections (including COVID)
• Expanded and Updated Asthma (now 9 pages!)
• Expanded and Updated COPD (now 9 pages!)

11: Pharmacology

• Extensively Reorganized and Updated
• 18 Pages Added!
• Simplified Explanations
• New! Expanded Abbreviations
• New! Receptors Overview
• New! Ultra Long-Acting Beta Agonists
• New Short vs Long-Acting Muscarinic Antagonists

12: Resuscitation

• Updated and Clarified

13: Equations

• Extensively Simplified, Fewer Equation Derivatives
• New! Clinical Applications for each Equation

Back Pages

• Even More Abbreviations
• Re-imagined Conversions Section
• + Most Detailed Index Ever