Nursing the Highly Dependent Child or Infant

This manual is written for nurses caring for acutely ill children and infants who need more support than a general paediatric ward offers, or who are stepping down from neonatal or paediatric critical care. It concentrates on the specific nursing skills such patients need.

The chapters follow a general systems approach, with respiratory, renal and cardiac care alongside neuro-trauma, burns and the transport of acutely ill infants. Other chapters deal with pain and sedation, monitoring, and the nutritional needs of a highly dependent child. Every chapter opens with anatomy and physiology, then moves on to assessment and monitoring and to the common conditions met in acute children's care.

Students and practising nurses in children's acute care will find it a practical reference. Edition note: published by Blackwell Pub in 2008, 343 pages, illustrated edition, ISBN-13 9781405151764.