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01-04-2007 | Book report
Fawcett JAD: Hemodynamic Monitoring Made Easy, 1st edition. China: Elsevier
2006. 240 pp. ISBN 0-7020-2781-2
Author:
Michael R Pinsky
Published in:
Critical Care
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Issue 2/2007
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Excerpt
This volume was written primarily for nurses in the intensive care unit. It was written by one of the more knowledgeable and successful nurses in critical care academia today. Ms Fawcett has the necessary breadth of physiological insight and years of technical experience, and an easy writing style to describe complex ideas and applications related to bedside hemodynamic monitoring to an exceptional degree. The book is an ambitious undertaking to place critical care nurses at the center of protocolized resuscitation from the perspective of active participation. I recommend this volume to junior nurses starting out in critical care medicine as well as more senior nursing staff who wish to take an active role in understanding bedside monitoring-driven resuscitation protocols and their protocol development. …