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Burns, Suzanne M. and Delgado, Sarah A.. Acute & Critical Care Nurse Practitioner: Cases in Diagnostic Reasoning. New York: McGraw-Hill Education, 2015.

Acute & Critical Care Nurse Practitioner: Cases in Diagnostic Reasoning

Published:  November 2015 Pages: 381

eISBN: 9780071849531 | ISBN: 9780071849548
  • Cover
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Contents
  • Contributors
  • Acknowledgements
  • Preface and How to Use the Book
  • Case Listing by Diagnosis
  • Case Listing by Symptom
  • Diagnostic Reasoning: An Overview
  • Cases 1–71
  • Case 1. Acute Liver Failure: Acetaminophen toxicity
  • Case 2. Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS)
  • Case 3. Acute Severe Asthma
  • Case 4. Adrenal Insufficiency
  • Case 5. Anemia: Of chronic disease
  • Case 6. Anemia: Of unknown etiology
  • Case 7. Aortic Dissection (type A): Marfan syndrome
  • Case 8. Aortic Dissection (type A): Post heart transplant
  • Case 9. Aortic Stenosis
  • Case 10. Aspergillosis
  • Case 11. Bowel Obstruction - Small Bowel (Part 1); Acute Kidney Injury (Part 2)
  • Case 12. Brain Tumor: Glioblastoma
  • Case 13. Cancer: Post-transplant lymphoproliferative disorder
  • Case 14. Carbon Monoxide Poisoning
  • Case 15. Cardiac Amyloidosis
  • Case 16. Cardiac Tamponade: Post cardiac surgery
  • Case 17. Cardiogenic Shock
  • Case 18. Cardiomyopathy: Hypertrophic obstructive
  • Case 19. Cardiomyopathy: Ischemic
  • Case 20. Chest Trauma: Flail chest
  • Case 21. Choledocholithiasis: Post laparoscopic surgery
  • Case 22. Colorectal Surgery: Post-operative complication
  • Case 23. Costochondritis
  • Case 24. Diabetes Insipidus: Post-operative
  • Case 25. Diabetic Ketoacidosis
  • Case 26. Drug Induced Long-QT Syndrome
  • Case 27. Encephalitis: Anti-N-methyl D-aspartate (NMDA)
  • Case 28. Endocarditis: Tricuspid valve
  • Case 29. Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease (GERD)
  • Case 30. Gastrointestinal Bleeding: Portal hypertension
  • Case 31. Heart Failure: Post-operative acute on chronic
  • Case 32. Heart Failure: Preserved ejection fraction
  • Case 33. Hepatorenal Syndrome
  • Case 34. Hernia: Inguinal
  • Case 35. Hypertensive crisis: Renal artery stenosis
  • Case 36. Idiopathic thrombocytopenia purpura
  • Case 37. Ileostomy: Large volume output
  • Case 38. Leukemia: Acute myeloid
  • Case 39. Lupus: Systemic lupus erythematosus
  • Case 40. Meningitis
  • Case 41. Meningitis: Bacterial
  • Case 42. Migraine
  • Case 43. Multiple Myeloma
  • Case 44. Myocardial Infarction: Non ST elevation myocardial infarction (NSTEMI)
  • Case 45. Myocardial Infarction: ST elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) and Plavix resistance
  • Case 46. Myxedema Coma
  • Case 47. Neuroleptic Malignant Syndrome
  • Case 48. Nicotine Poisoning
  • Case 49. Osteomylitis
  • Case 50. Pancreatic Cancer
  • Case 51. Pancreatitis Associated with ECMO
  • Case 52. Pericarditis: Constrictive cardiomyopathy
  • Case 53. Pericarditis: Post-operative CABG
  • Case 54. Peripheral Arterial Disease (PAD)
  • Case 55. Peripheral Venous Disease (PVD)
  • Case 56. Pneumonia: Aspiration due to end-stage dementia
  • Case 57. Pneumonia: COPD exacerbation
  • Case 58. Pneumonia: Eosinophilia
  • Case 59. Pneumothorax
  • Case 60. Pulmonary Edema: Flash
  • Case 61. Pulmonary Embolus
  • Case 62. Sepsis: Bile leak post-operative liver transplantation
  • Case 63. Sepsis: Perirectal abscess
  • Case 64. Septic Joint
  • Case 65. Septic Shock
  • Case 66. Sleep Apnea and Heart Failure (acute on chronic)
  • Case 67. Status Epilepticus: Nonconvulsive after traumatic brain injury
  • Case 68. Stroke: Hemorrhagic
  • Case 69. Subarachnoid Hemorrhage: Ruptured berry aneurysm
  • Case 70. Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI): TBI with malignant intracranial hypertension
  • Case 71. Urinary Tract Infection (UTI)
  • Index