Veterinary Nursing Guide to Monitoring Critical Patients: The Rule of 20

Use the Rule of 20 for critical veterinary monitoring The Veterinary Nursing Guide to Monitoring Critical Patients: The Rule of 20 examines each parameter in the Rule of 20, a checklist of 20 parameters that should be monitored daily in critical veterinary patients.The book explains what is being monitored and why, with parameters organized in a logical order for creating nursing plans.It emphasizes how each rule affects the others and how to use that knowledge to anticipate patient needs.Each chapter focuses on a single parameter and its practical application and includes a summary of nursing considerations.The book also features examples to illustrate the Rule of 20 fundamentals.The Veterinary Nursing Guide to Monitoring Critical Patients: The Rule of 20 discusses: Fluid balance and colloidal osmotic pressure, oxygenation and ventilation, blood pressure, heart rate, rhythm, and contractility, and glucose and glucoseTemperature, electrolyte and acid-base balance, mentation, and red bl