Paediatric Intensive Care Nursing

About the Editors Michaela Dixon is Senior Lecturer in Child Health at UWE and Clinical Development Nurse, Paediatric Intensive Care, at Bristol Royal Hospital for Children. Doreen Crawford is Senior Lecturer in Nursing and Midwifery at De Montfort University. She is the Chair of the Children and Young People’s Acute Care Forum, and has sat on the RCN National Forum for Neonatal and Paediatric Intensive Care since 2005, which has led to work representing them with NPSA, BAPM, RCPCH and NICE.

“Written by a team of experts in the field, Paediatric Intensive Care Nursing is indispensable reading for nurses and health care professionals working with critically ill children.”  (Newbooks.lib.ntu.edu.tw,5 May 2014)“The strengths are the systematic and logical approach that this textbook takes in order to enhance knowledge and understanding. Within the essential care section the chapters on Nutrition and Fluid Management and Management of Pain and Sedation are both really good and clearly link important aspects of paediatric care and management.”  (Nursing Times, 19 February 2014)“The book is reasonably priced considering the vast amount of information it covers and it is a must read for all PICU nurses.”  (Nursing Children and Young People, 1 April 2013)

• List of Contributors xi Acknowledgements xiiiSection 1: Introduction to Paediatric Intensive Care Nursing 11 Introduction to Children's Intensive Care 3Dave Clarke2 Assessment and Management of the Critically Ill Child/Resuscitation 11Mark Fores and Doreen Crawford3 Physiological Monitoring of Infants and Children in the Intensive Care Unit 22Michaela Dixon and Debra TeasdaleSection 2: Systems Approach 334 Care of an Infant or Child with a Respiratory Illness and/or the Need for Respiratory Support 35Michaela Dixon5 Care of an Infant or Child with a Cardiac Condition or Disease 102Sandra Batcheler and Michaela Dixon6 Care of the Infant or Child in Renal Failure 169Ben Harvey and Doreen Crawford7 Care of the Infant or Child with Acute Neurological Dysfunction 188Michaela Dixon8 Care of an Infant or Child with Gastrointestinal or Endocrine Dysfunction 215Doreen Crawford and Michaela Dixon9 Care of a Child with Musculoskeletal Injury 250Mark Fores and Doreen Crawford10 Care of the Infant or Child with Thermal Injury 273Jane Leaver and Clare Thomas11 Care of the Child with Cancer 284Karen Selwood, Caroline Langford and Michelle WrightSection 3: Essential Care 30112 Nutrition and Fluid Management 303Doreen Crawford13 Management of Pain and Sedation in Intensive Care 318Doreen Crawford and Michaela Dixon14 Managing Skin Integrity, Wound Healing and Care 338Doreen Crawford15 Transportation of the Critically Ill Infant or Child 349Alison Oliver and Michaela DixonSection 4: Holistic Care 35916 Care of the Family 361Doreen Crawford and Peter McNee17 Spiritual Care and Bereavement in Paediatric Intensive Care 370Peter McNee18 Safeguarding Children in the Intensive Care Unit 381Gillian EarlConclusion 392References 392Further reading 393Resources 393Index 395