A Nurse's Guide to Caring for Cardiac Intervention Patients

Cardiac intervention is a fast expanding field of medicine that isreducing the need for cardiac surgery. A Nurse's Guide to Caringfor Cardiac Intervention Patients will enable nurses to fullyprepare their patients and families for various cardiacintervention procedures.

Coverage includes:

• Explanations of what the heart condition is and how theprocedure may relieve that condition
• Descriptions of what the patient can expect to happen before, during and after the procedure
• What nurses should observe for post procedure, and how toaddress any complications that may occur
• Guidelines for discharge advice
• Outlines for a pre and post care plan for each procedure- based on the latest research and experience.

Nurses will find the book informative on common interventionalprocedures, but it is also designed as a tool to be dipped intowhen caring for patients with more unusual procedures. Thispractical book includes chapters on: cardiac catheterisation
percutaneous coronary intervention
percutaneous balloon mitralvalvuloplasty
removal of femoral sheaths
cardioversion
temporaryand permanent pacemakers.