Critical Care Manual of Clinic

Sue Cottle is a Consultant Nurse in Critical Care Services.
Ruth Towell is a Practice Development Facilitator.
Jane Mallett is Head of Nursing Research, Education and Practice.
Dr. Ian White is an Intensivist in Critical.
 
The authorship includes senior doctors, nurses and allied health professionals who are expert in a wide range of related clinical fields.

The Critical Care Manual of Clinical Procedures and Competencies is the landmark new clinical skills resource designed for healthcare practitioners caring for critically ill patients. The Manual offers a complete, evidence-based guide to clinical skills procedures in critical care, addressing the needs of both novice and expert practitioners and recognising the roles that different disciplines contribute to the provision of effective care.
The Manual provides guidelines on core critical care procedures based on the best available evidence for each procedure and includes a patient-centred competency framework, as well as fundamental and specific competencies to enable practitioners to assess their abilities and expertise. Each chapter provides a comprehensive overview, beginning with basic principles and progressing to more complex ideas, to support practitioners to develop their knowledge, skills and competencies in critical care.
An essential clinical companion for all healthcare practitioners caring for critically ill patients, the Manual is the definitive resource on critical care clinical skills procedures.
Key features
Provides essential evidence-based procedures for all critical care practitioners
Includes a robust competency framework and fundamental competencies that can be used by all disciplines
Provides specific competencies for critical care procedures
Underpins best practice by drawing on the best available evidence
Follows a systematic approach to providing care
Facilitates the development of critical care knowledge and skills
Provides benchmarks to help assess and develop clinical practice
Indicates areas where specialist training is needed
Endorsed by the British Association of Critical Care Nurses

Provides essential evidence-based procedures for all critical care practitioners
Includes a robust competency framework that can be used by all disciplines
Underpins best practice by drawing on the best available evidence
Follows a systematic approach to providing care.

List of contributors
 
Foreword by Julian Bion
 
Foreword by Ged Williams
 
Preface
 
List of abbreviations
 
Chapter 1 Scope and delivery of evidence-based care
John W. Albarran and Annette Richardson
 
Chapter 2 Competency-based practice
Julie Scholes, Jo Richmond and Jane Mallett
 
Chapter 3 Recognizing and managing the critically ill and 'at risk' patient on a ward
Mandy Odell
 
Chapter 4 Admitting a critically ill patient
Vanessa Gibson and Karen Hill
 
Chapter 5 Assessment, monitoring and interventions for the respiratory system
Maureen Coombs, Judy Dyos, David Waters and Ian Nesbitt
 
Chapter 6 Monitoring of the cardiovascular system: insertion and assessment
Alan T. Platt, Sarah Conolly and Jonathan Round
 
Chapter 7 Titration of inotropes and vasopressors
Kirsty Rutledge
 
Chapter 8 Assessment and support of hydration and nutrition status and care
Kirsty Rutledge and Ian Nesbitt
 
Chapter 9 Continuous renal replacement therapies: assessment, monitoring and care
Annette Richardson and Jayne Whatmore
 
Chapter 10 Assessment and monitoring of analgesia, sedation, delirium and neuromuscular blockade levels and care
Phil Laws and Nicola Rudall
 
Chapter 11 Assessment and monitoring of neurological status
Margaret A. Douglas and Sarah E.C. Platt
 
Chapter 12 Assessment and care of tissue viability, and mouth and eye hygiene needs
Philip Woodrow, Judy Elliott and Pauline Beldon
 
Chapter 13 Assessment of sleep and sleep promotion
Annette Richardson, Micheala Allsop and Elaine Coghill
 
Chapter 14 Physical mobility and exercise interventions for critically ill patients
D.J. McWilliams and Amanda Thomas
 
Chapter 15 Transfer of the critically ill patient
Andrew Baker and Simon M. Whiteley
 
Chapter 16 Rehabilitation from critical illness
Catherine I. Plowright and Christina Jones
 
Chapter 17 Withdrawal of treatment and end of life care for the critically ill patient
Natalie A. Pattison
 
Chapter 18 Cardiopulmonary resuscitation
Jackie S. Younker and Jasmeet Soar
 
References and further reading
 
Useful websites
 
Index