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Cardiac Arrhythmia Recognition:
An easy learning guide
3rd in the Easy Learning Guides SERIES FROM M&K
Fiona Foxall, MA, BSc, Formerly Head of Continuing Education, School of Health, University of Wolverhampton
ISBN: 9781905539536 • February 2010 • M&K Publishing • Paperback • 170 pages • illustrated
This workbook is a no-fuss, practical guide containing all the information you need to get to grips with cardiac monitoring. It will help you recognise common cardiac arrhythmias and guide you in what actions to take when they occur. Presented in a clear and simple format, this workbook builds on your understanding. If you work your way through this book and carry out the exercises, you will soon become more con?dent and competent about haemodynamic monitoring and manipulation as well as understanding all the information that initially seems so complicated.
Here’s to easy learning!
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Fiona Foxall qualified as a Registered General Nurse in 1984 and worked as a senior intensive care sister until 1990 when she moved into nurse education. She has always maintained clinical currency and competence by continuing to practice, teaching critical care nurses and undertaking continuing professional development within the intensive care setting. She was employed as the Head of Continuing Development in the School of Health at the University of Wolverhampton but now lives and works in Australia.
Price: £14.00
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The ECG Workbook
Angela Rowlands, Head of Education, Health Dialog UK
Andrew Sargent, Senior Lecturer, Thames Valley University
ISBN: 9781905539147
October 2008 • M&K Update • A4 format • 96 pages • illustrated
A straightforward approach forms the basis of this book that aims to present a systematic approach to ECG interpretation and be digestible to those setting out in this discipline, without the burden of unnecessary jargon. Each step to the systematic approach is presented simply. At the end of each chapter there are a number of activities to help the reader practice what they have just learnt, evaluate their learning and relate their learning to patient scenarios.
Answers can be found at the back of the book.
Contents include:
Recording a readable electrocardiogram (ECG) • Sites of infarction • The electrical conducting system of the heart • Bundle branch blocks • A systematic approach to rhythm strip analysis • Chamber enlargement • Heart blocks • A systematic approach to ECG interpretation • The 12 lead ECG • Ischaemia, injury and necrosis • Axis deviation • Answers to activities
Enhanced by real-life ECGs
Many books on ECG interpretation use simulated ECG tracings. Most of the traces that you find in this book are from real people and of the quality that you will be expected to interpret from in practice.
Price: £21.00
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Issues in Heart Failure Nursing
Edited by: Chris Jones MSc, BA, RN, RNT, PGCE, ENB 100, Senior Lecturer, Faculty Of Health, Edge Hill University, University Hospital Aintree
Foreword: Professor Martin Cowie
ISBN: 9781905539000
September 2006 • M&K Update Ltd • 155 pages
The number of people suffering from this debilitating condition is predicted to grow exponentially over the next decade. This has serious implications for the health services. Investigating heart failure is not cheap even where facilities exist. The drugs used, though effective often remarkably so are also costly as are mandate laboratory investigations. These again are not cheap. People with heart failure require frequent admissions to hospital and occupy many beds and much staff attention. All of these factors are set to increase over the next decades.
This eclectic collection of papers tackles many of the issues that concern those who care for individuals with heart failure; organisation of services, exercise, palliative care amongst them, but also novel and rarely discussed issue.
Price: £19.00
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Routine Blood Results Explained 2nd Edition
NEW Second Edition now includes pregnancy and paediatrics
Author Dr Andrew Blann PhD FRCPath
ISBN: 9781905539383
May 2007 • M&K Update Ltd • 168 pages • illustrated
The 2nd Edition has benefited from some structural changes, notably the merging of separate Chapters on calcium and the thyroid into a single section. New text, generally in response to comments from readers and delegates on M&K courses, includes more details on blood transfusion, and also a completely new Chapter with sections on pregnancy, paediatrics, and on immunology as applied to the inflammatory auto-immune connective tissue diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis.
Contents
Introduction
Abbreviations
Part 1: Haematology
Part 2: Biochemistry
Part 3: Combined Haematology and Biochemistry Case Reports
Part 4: Appendices of normal ranges
Price: £26.00
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Arterial Blood Gas Analysis: - An easy learning guide
Fiona Foxall, MA, BSc, Head of Continuing Education, University of Wolverhampton
ISBN: 9781905539048 • August 2008 • M&K Update Ltd Paperback • 96 pages • illustrated
Blood gas analysis is one of the most frequently requested blood tests when caring for the critically ill patient, as it provides very valuable information about the respiratory and acid–base status of the patient (Shoulders-Odom, 2000). However, many healthcare professionals find it difficult to get to grips with blood gas analysis. It often seems complex and daunting, but if you work your way through this book and carry out all the exercises, you will soon become con?dent and competent at analysing blood gases and will understand all the information that initially seemed so complicated. Blood gas analysis is a skill, which requires continuous practice, so once you have completed this workbook keep analysing blood gases as often as you can and discuss your findings with your mentor, until it becomes easy.
Forthcoming titles in the Easy Learning Guide series:
• Haemodynamic monitoring
• Cardiac arrhythmia recognition
• Artificial ventilation
• Fluid and electrolyte balance and control
• Neurological observations and their significance
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