Respiratory Care: Essential Clinical Skills for NursesISBN: 978-1-4051-1717-3
Paperback
244 pages
January 2006, Wiley-Blackwell
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Respiratory care is a beginner's guide to care of patients
with respiratory illness. It contains evidence-based guidelines to
enable students and newly qualified staff to develop the essential
clinical skills needed to care for all patients with respiratory
disease.
Respiratory Care explores the anatomy and physiology of the respiratory system, examines assessment of respiratory function, and addresses day-to-day management of asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, bronchitis, lung cancer and respiratory infections including TB and pneumonia, in order to improve quality of life.