Med-Surg Nursing II
Endocrine, neuro, burns and end of life. Free to read, practice and play, with no sign-up.
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- 1Endocrine Disorders: Diabetes MellitusTwo Ways the Pancreas Fails, Assessment, Diagnostics and Surveillance, Insulin and the Non-Insulin Agents
- 2Endocrine Disorders: Thyroid, Parathyroid, Adrenal and PituitaryReading the Axes: The Logic That Makes Endocrine Make Sense, The Thyroid: From Sluggish to Storm, Parathyroid Glands and the Calcium Emergency
- 3Neurologic Disorders: Stroke and Increased Intracranial PressureHow the Brain Is Perfused and How You Assess It, Ischaemic Stroke: The Clock, the Score and the Clot, Haemorrhagic Stroke: Intracerebral and Subarachnoid
- 4Neurologic Disorders: Seizures, Headache and CNS InfectionSeizures: What the Cortex Is Doing and What You Must See, Status Epilepticus and the Drugs That Stop Seizures, Headache: Sorting the Miserable From the Catastrophic
- 5Neurologic Disorders: Degenerative and Neuromuscular DiseaseReading the failing motor unit, Parkinson disease and disorders of movement, Multiple sclerosis and demyelinating disease
- 6Musculoskeletal Disorders and Orthopaedic TraumaReading the Musculoskeletal System: Assessment and Diagnostics, Fractures and Soft-Tissue Injury: From Field to Fixation, When a Fracture Turns Dangerous
- 7Integumentary Disorders and BurnsThe Integument, Skin Assessment and Wound Healing, Inflammatory, Infectious and Life-Threatening Skin Disorders, Pressure Injuries, Chronic Wounds and Skin Cancer
- 8Sensory Disorders: Eye and EarAssessing Vision, Hearing and the Safety They Buy, Pressure and the Lens: Glaucoma and Cataract, The Retina: Sudden Loss and Slow Loss
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- 9Immune and Rheumatologic DisordersWhen the Immune System Overreacts: Hypersensitivity, Allergy and Anaphylaxis, When the Immune System Fails: Immunodeficiency and HIV, When the Immune System Turns Inward: Lupus and Connective Tissue Disease
- 10Infectious Disease and Antimicrobial StewardshipRecognising Infection and Building the Diagnostic Picture, Antimicrobial Therapy by Mechanism, Stewardship, Resistance and Healthcare-Associated Infection
- 11Reproductive and Sexual Health DisordersAsking the questions nobody asks: reproductive assessment and screening, Male reproductive disorders: obstruction, ischemia and malignancy, Bleeding, structure and transition: female reproductive disorders
- 12Care of the Older AdultHow Ageing Changes the Body and the Presentation of Illness, Delirium, Dementia and Depression: Telling the Three Apart, Polypharmacy, Altered Pharmacology and Safer Prescribing
- 13Rehabilitation, Mobility and Chronic IllnessWhat Rehabilitation Is, and How Function Is Measured, Safe Transfers, Gait Belts and Assistive Devices, Spinal Cord Injury: Levels, Syndromes and Retained Function
- 14End-of-Life Care, Ethics and Complex DecisionsEthical ground, capacity, and who speaks when the patient cannot, Advance directives, POLST, and withholding versus withdrawing, Symptom control at the end of life and the doctrine of double effect