AUTOR/ES: Linda Baddeley, MA RGN and Simon Ellis, MA MB BChir MRCP MD
ISBN: 9780750649544
AÑO: 2002
EDICION: 4ª
IDIOMA: Inglés
ENCUADERNACIÓN: Softcover, Reference
PÁGINAS: 224
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DE INTERES PARA: Nursing
RELACIONADOS: Community Nursing
PUNTOS CLAVE: Written by a Specialist Nurse with extensive experience in co-ordinating treatment plans for epilepsy and a Consultant Neurologist, this practical guide is an essential purchase for every nurse practitioner, practice nurse and other members of the primary healthcare team.
INDICE: 1) An Introduction to Epilepsy: the Condition and the Care 2) The development of epilepsy services 3) Implications for lifestyle 4) Exploring the nurse's role in epilepsy care 5) The anatomy and physiology 6) The diagnosis, classification and investigations 7) Special issues in the diagnosis and treatment of epilepsy 8) Treatments used in the care of people with epilepsy 9) Epilepsy in children and adolescents 10) Sexuality and Planing a family 11) Epilepsy in the elderly 12) Epilepsy in the learning disabled 13) Audit. 14) Appendices. 1. Use of rectal diazepam 2. Information required by Neurologist at out patient appointment 3. Information required by EEG department 4. Sample patient record card 5. Epilepsy profile record sheet 6. Questions and answers - Informing the patient 7. First aid during seizures 8. Useful addresses 9. Bibliography
DATOS DEL AUTOR: By Linda Baddeley, MA RGN, Epilepsy Specialist Nurse, North Staffordshire NHS Trust; and Simon Ellis, MA MB BChir MRCP MD, Consultant Neurologist and Senior Lecturer, North Staffordshire Royal Infirmary and Keele University; former Clinical Lecturer in Neurology, University of Oxford; former Chief Resident in Neurology, Mount Sinai Medical Centre, New York, USA.