Strategies for Managing Multisystem Disorders

Strategies for Managing Multisystem Disorders addresses disorders that require comprehensive, coordinated, integrated interventions to promote positive patient outcomes. This book is comprehensive in scope, providing information on over 80 disorders and other conditions that can impact these disorders such as trauma and pneumonia. Emphasis is on treatment and nursing interventions required when a patient is experiencing more than one disorder. Using a consistent format and highly visual approach, each disorder is described in detail, including information about incidence and risk factors, etiology, pathophysiology, and assessment findings. Each description also focuses on collaborative management that emphasizes multidisciplinary care measures.