Description
You’ll encounter these helpful features that enhance your learning:

• Clearly written text that focuses precisely on what you need to know
• Hundreds of easy-to-understand charts and illustrations
• A lighthearted tone that makes learning enjoyable
• That’s a wrap quick reviews of chapter essentials

This one-of-a-kind reference contains all of the information you need to put everything into perspective and improve your patient care.  You’ll find clear, concise explanations of:

• Major imbalances, such as dehydration; hypovolemia; water intoxication; sodium, calcium, phosphorus, and chloride imbalances; and metabolic and respiratory acidosis and alkalosis
• Causes, signs and symptoms, treatments, interventions, documentation, and patient teaching

Level: Intermediate
ISBN: 1582555656
ISBN-13: 9781582555652
Format: Paperbakc, 384pp
Publisher: Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins
Edition: 4
Pub date: 2007

Contents
Contributors and consultants
Not another boring foreword
Part I. Balancing basics
1.  Balancing fluids
2.  Balancing electrolytes
3.  Balancing acids and bases
Part II. Fluid and electrolyte imbalances
4.  When fluids tip the balance
5.  When sodium tips the balance
6.  When potassium tips the balance
7.  When magnesium tips the balance
8.  When calcium tips the balance
9.  When phosphorus tips the balance
10. When chloride tips the balance
11. When acids and bases tip the balance
Part III. Disorders that causes imbalances
12. Heart syndromes
13. Heart failure
14. Respiratory failure
15. Excessive GI fluid loss
16. Acute pancreatitis
17. Renal failure
18. Burns
Part IV. Treating imbalances
19. I.V. fluid replacement
20. Total parenteral nutrition
Appendices and index
Common fluid and electrolyte imbalances in pediatric patients
Common fluid and electrolyte imbalances in elderly patients
Transfusing blood and selected components
Practice makes perfect
Glossary
Selected references
Index

Dietetic professionals
CPE Level: 2
Suggested Commission on Dietetic Registration Learning Need Codes: It is the sole responsibility of the dietetic professional to determine the learning need code met by a course. numedix.com provides the following "suggested" codes, but the professional can deviate from them if they feel another need is met.
3040 Food consumption, fluid balance
5160 Cardiovascular disease
5170 Critical care, trauma
5220 Gastrointestinal disorders
5340 Renal diseases
5410 Client protocols, clinical guidelines