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Assessing cardiovascular status: a guide for acute nurses
Many patients admitted to acute care areas of a hospital experience cardiovascular compromise due to conditions such as acute myocardial infarction (AMI), acute coronary syndrome or exacerbations of chronic heart failure. Additionally, patients can experience cardiovascular collapse due to bleeding or cardiac arrhythmias postoperatively. As a consequence, nurses in acute care settings need to be competent in assessing the cardiovascular status of adult patients. The authors provide a framework for assessing the cardiovascular status of patients in acute care settings using the determinants of cardiac output. They provide a brief review of the determinants of cardiac output before discussing both the aims of cardiovascular assessment and how to perform, such an assessment. (non- author abstract)
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Collegian: journal of the Royal College of Nursing AustraliaVolume
12Issue
1Pagination
34 - 40Publisher
Elsevier LtdLocation
Amsterdam, The NetherlandsPublisher DOI
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1322-7696eISSN
1876-7575Language
engNotes
Reproduced with the specific permission of the copyright owner.Publication classification
C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journalCopyright notice
2005, Royal College of Nursing, AustraliaUsage metrics
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