Epilepsy: A Team Approach to Effective Management - Brossura

Baddeley, Linda; Ellis, Simon

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0750649542 ISBN 13: 9780750649544

Casa editrice: Butterworth-Heinemann Medical, 2002

Riassunto

* A practical guide for all nurses involved in primary care * Looks at patients in their wider social role and identifies strategies for coping with the difficulties that epilepsy produces * Authorship of a specialist epilepsy nurse and a consultant neurologist illustrates an effective team approach to nursing the patient with epilepsy

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Contenuti

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

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Butterworth-Heinemann Medical
• Data di pubblicazione: 2002
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0750649542
• ISBN 13: 9780750649544
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 4
• Numero di pagine: 256
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile