Hemodynamic Monitoring Made Incredibly Visual

by Rose Knapp DNP, RN, APRN-BC

Overview

Selected as a Doody's Core Title for 2022 and 2023!

Build a solid knowledge base in hemodynamic nursing skills, with the newly updated Hemodynamic Monitoring Made Incredibly Visual!®, 4th Edition. 

Full of colorful images that illustrate monitoring concepts and processes, this concise, enjoyable guide sorts through the complexities of hemodynamics and clarifies them in easy-to-follow ways. Grasp the structures and functions of pulmonary and cardiac systems and the vital skills of hemodynamics, with this vital reference—a must-have for all nursing students, new nurses, and nurses returning to critical care.
 
Get clear, concise direction on the concepts, devices, and nursing skills used in hemodynamic monitoring:
 

• NEW and updated content, photos and graphics that demonstrate nursing skills and responsibilities
• Hundreds of colorful images that guide you through the ins and outs of hemodynamics – detailed photos, diagrams, charts and other visual aids that clarify cardiopulmonary anatomy and physiology
• Illustrates vital practice issues, such as how to confirm the lungs are getting enough oxygen, and how well the heart is pumping — explains and reinforces key concepts in easy-to-remember ways
• Explains the fundamentals and current best practices in hemodynamic monitoring in easy-to-retain terms 
• Ideal for visual learners –images demonstrate step-by-step, expert guidance on monitoring skills, physiology and devices: 
  • Understanding cardiopulmonary anatomy and physiology
  • Understanding a pressure monitoring system
  • Vascular access
  • Pressure monitoring – arterial, central venous, and pulmonary artery pressure monitoring
  • Cardiac output monitoring
  • Tissue oxygenation monitoring
  • Minimally invasive hemodynamic monitoring
  • Circulatory assist devices
  • Step-by-step guidance on thermodilution methods, analyzing thermodilution curves, measuring cardiac function and output, maintaining artery catheters, and more
• Ideal on-the-spot reference and review for nursing students and new nurses – addresses the physiology behind each learning objective and provides vital nursing considerations

• Chapter features:
  • On the level – defines normal and abnormal pressure readings for different patient conditions
  • Q&A – illustrated riddles, diagrams, and questions and answers at the end of each chapter that help you fully integrate new knowledge
  • Matchmaker – matching terms and conditions to their correct definition
  • Memory board – learning aids and memory cues that help you retain important definitions and processes
  • Ride the wave – explains the actions of waveforms, including how to recognize abnormal waveforms
  • “Nurse Joy and Jake” – expert insights and encouraging advice

 
About the Clinical Editor
 
Rose Knapp, DNP, RN, APN-BC, is an Acute Care Nurse Practitioner, and Associate Graduate Faculty and MSN Program Director/APN Program Coordinator at the Marjorie K. Unterberg School of Nursing and Health Studies at Monmouth University in West Long Branch, New Jersey

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781975148294
Publisher:	LWW
Publication date:	08/28/2020
Series:	Incredibly Easy! Series®
Edition description:	Fourth
Pages:	160
Sales rank:	346,685
Product dimensions:	7.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

1 Cardiopulmonary anatomy and physiology Erica Sciarra, DNP, RN, APN 1

2 Understanding a pressure monitoring system Natalie Burkhalter, RN, MSN, FNP, ACNP, CS 19

3 Vascular access Susan Barnason, PhD, RN, APRN-CNS, CCRN, CEN, FAEN, FAHA, FAAN 31

4 Arterial pressure monitoring Patricia Walters, RN, MSN, APN, CCRN 45

5 Central venous pressure monitoring Kathleen M. Hill, MSN, RN, CCNS 61

6 Pulmonary artery pressure monitoring Margaret McAtee, RN, WIN, ACNP-BC, CCRN 75

7 Cardiac output monitoring Julene B. (Julie) Kruithof, MSN, RN, CCRN 97

8 Tissue oxygenation monitoring Michelle D. Staggs, MNSC, BS, BA 115

9 Minimally invasive hemodynamic monitoring Loisann Stapleton, RN, CCRN, MSN, ACNP, CHFN 129

10 Circulatory assist devices Anna Remy, BSN, RN 151

Index 169

Editorial Reviews

Reviewer: Patricia Gonce Morton, PhD, RN, ACNP-BC, FAAN (University of Utah College of Nursing)
Description: This 173-page, soft cover book provides an excellent and concise discussion of hemodynamic monitoring in patients. Authored by 11 expert contributors, this fourth edition contains 10 chapters and a helpful index. The strength of the book is its superb use of colored photos, diagrams, and charts that enhance the step-by-step explanations of how to use technology for gathering hemodynamic data from patients. In addition, cartoon illustrations help maintain readers' interest and serve to emphasize key facts.
Purpose: The objectives of the book are to teach readers the purposes of hemodynamic monitoring, the invasive and minimally invasive techniques used to gather hemodynamic monitoring data, the interpretation of the data, and the nursing care of patients undergoing hemodynamic monitoring. The author and contributors do an excellent job of meeting these important objectives.
Audience: The book is ideal for nursing students and nurses who are new to critical care. Although the book is targeted to nursing, the information is also valuable for physician assistants who work in critical care units and for physicians who are starting their critical care training.
Features: The book opens with a chapter that reviews key pulmonary and cardiac anatomical and physiological concepts fundamental to understanding hemodynamic monitoring. These concepts include diffusion, ventilation, perfusion, preload, afterload, contractility, and systemic vascular resistance. The book contains chapters addressing invasive monitoring of blood pressure, central venous pressure, pulmonary artery pressure, and cardiac output. The next two chapters cover tissue oxygenation monitoring and minimally invasive hemodynamic monitoring. The final chapter focuses on care of patients with circulatory assist devices. Through the use of excellent color illustrations, readers are taught in each chapter the step-by-step process of setting up monitoring systems, how to interpret the data generated by the systems, techniques for troubleshooting the systems, and the associated patient care. A short list of references appears at the end of each chapter. A major strength of the book is that complex information is presented clearly using a simplistic writing style. Special chapter features are employed throughout the book to focus readers' attention on key issues. These features include "On the level," which helps readers learn normal and abnormal pressure readings for a variety of patient conditions; questions and answers at the end of each chapter to help readers test their understanding of important information; memory boards, which are learning aids and memory cues that assist readers in learning vital definitions and processes in hemodynamic monitoring; "Ride the wave," which explains how to interpret waveforms including the ability to distinguish normal from abnormal waveforms; and "Nurse Joy and Jake," which offers expert insights and encouraging advice for readers.
Assessment: No other book offers such an excellent visual approach to understanding hemodynamic monitoring in such a clear and concise way. Critical care nursing textbooks may have a chapter or a section of a chapter addressing hemodynamic monitoring, but none do it is as well as this text. The book will be very useful for the intended audience as they care for patients undergoing hemodynamic monitoring. The fourth edition of the book is needed since the technology used for hemodynamic monitoring is constantly being developed and improved.

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