Main description:

This book offers a practical approach for medical and nursing staff with a step-by-step guide to caring for patients in a variety of vascular clinical settings. It follows a patient's path of care from management in the outpatient clinic, through to the hospital ward, theatre, recovery room and back to the follow-up outpatient clinic. A clear, concise format is used throughout the book, with reference to evidence-based interventions and the physiology underpinning them, and the use of simple line diagrams and treatment flow charts to illustrate the essential aspects of care.
This book reflects the multidisciplinary nature of vascular patient care and is a valuable resource for nurses, surgeons and other healthcare professionals involved in caring for this vascular patient group. It builds on the vascular experience, knowledge and evidence highlighting the recent clinical trend and scientific innovation in vascular disease and surgery coupling recent technological advancement in device technology and vascular surgery application.

Contents:

CONTENTS List of Abbreviations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . ix List of Contributors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xi Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. xiii
Section 1 1. Outpatient Department . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.1 Peripheral arterial disease . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . S. Dorgan and H. Al-Khaffaf 1.2 Carotid artery disease . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . S. Dorgan and H. Al-Khaffaf 1.3 Abdominal aortic aneurysm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . S. H. Al-Khaffaf/ A Elmetwally 1.4 Upper limb ischaemia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . H. Al-Khaffaf 1.5 Raynaud's phenomenon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . S. Dorgan 1.6 Vasculitis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . S. Dorgan and H. Al-Khaffaf 1.7 Thoracic outlet syndrome . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . S. Dorgan 1.8 Hyperhidrosis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . S. A Elmetwally/ H. Al-Khaffaf 1.9 Leg ulcers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Lyndsey Pownall 1.10 The diabetic foot . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jennifer Buxton 1.11 Mesenteric ischaemia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . H. Al-Khaffaf 1.12 Varicose veins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Robert Salaman 1.13 Deep vein thrombosis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . H. Al-Khaffaf 1.14 Managing Lymphoedema: a clinic approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Lindsey Gawthrop
Section 2 2. Vascular Emergencies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A Rahi 2.1 Ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A Rahi 2.2 Acute limb ischaemia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A Rahi 2.3 Vascular trauma . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A Rahi
Section 3 3. Vascular Investigations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.1 The vascular laboratory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Muneeb Abbass 3.2 Radiological investigation and intervention . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Shofiq Al-Islam
Section 4 4. Management of Vascular Patients on the Ward . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.1 Nursing care of patients with peripheral vascular disease . . . . . . . S. Michelle Aspden 4.2 Pain management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Susan Greenwood 4.3 Rehabilitation of amputees and artificial limb provision . . . . . . . F.J. Boon / Fergus Jepson
Section 5
5. The Peri-operative Period . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.1 The pre-assessment clinic and the role of the pre-assessment nurse . . . . . . . . . 5.2 Vascular anaesthesia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Adam Slack 5.3 Operative vascular surgery: common vascular operations . . . . . . . H. Al-Khaffaf /A Abdelhaliem 5.4 The role of the vascular scrub nurse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Robert Tomlinson 5.5 Post-operative care of vascular surgery patients . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . J.C.Watts
Section 6 Management of Vascular disease in the community - Louise Counsell
Section 7 7. Training and Practice Issues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Lyndsey Pownall 7.1 The role of the vascular nurse specialist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Lyndsey Pownall 7.2 Training for vascular nurses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Lyndsey Pownall 7.3 Integrated care pathways . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7.4 Clinical governance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... 7.5 Audit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Adnan Taib 7.6 Research for vascular nurses ...........................................................S Dorgan 7.7 Aortic Dissection.....................................................................................Mo Bashir
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