5th Edition

Intensive Care Nursing A Framework for Practice

By Philip Woodrow, Barry Hill Copyright 2025
620 Pages 56 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

620 Pages 56 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

620 Pages 56 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

The fifth edition of this essential text provides a comprehensive overview of working in intensive care. Written for critical care nurses practising at Level 3, it is fully updated to ensure the evidence base is up to date and the content reflects contemporary best practice. Intensive Care Nursing covers patient-focused issues of bedside nursing; the technical knowledge necessary to care... Read more

Part 1: Contexts of Care

1. Nursing Perspectives and the Humanistic Approach    

2. Principles of Pharmacology

3. Psychological Care

Part 2: Fundamental

4. Artificial Ventilation

5. Airway Management

6. Sedation

7. Acute Pain Management

8. Thermoregulation

9. Nutrition and Bowel Care

10. Mouthcare

11. Eyecare

12. Tissue Viability 

13. Children in Adult ICUs

14. Older Patients in the ICU

15. Infection Prevention and Control

16. Epidemics and Pandemics

Part 3: Monitoring

17. Respiratory Monitoring

18. Gas Carriage

19. Blood Gas Interpretation

20. Haemodynamic Monitoring

21. Blood Results

22. ECGs and Dysrhythmias

23. Neurological Monitoring

Part 4: Micropathologies

24. Cellular Pathology

25. Immunity and Immunodeficiency

26. Haemostasis

Part 5: Respiratory

27. Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS)

28. Alternative Ventilation

Part 6: Cardiovascular

29. Acute Coronary Syndromes

30. Cardiac Surgery and Interventions

31. Shock

32. Sepsis

33. Fluid Management

34. Inotropes and Vasopressors

35. Vascular Surgery

Part 7: Neurological

36. Central Nervous System Injury

37. Peripheral Neurological Pathologies

Part 8: Abdominal

38. Acute Kidney Injury

39. Haemofiltration

40. Gastrointestinal Bleeds

41. Liver Failure

42. Maternal Critical Care

43. Organ Donation

Part 9: Metabolic

44. Severe Acute Pancreatitis

45. Diabetic Crises

46. Self-poisoning

Part 10: Professional

47. Transferring Critically Ill Patients

48. Professional Perspectives

49. Managing the ICU

50. Costs of Intensive Care

Biography

The late Philip Woodrow was a practice development nurse in critical care at East Kent Hospitals University Foundation Trust, UK. He authored the first four editions of Intensive Care Nursing, as well as Nursing Acutely Ill Adults and High Dependency Nursing Care.

Barry Hill is a professor of acute and critical care nursing and head of the School for Nursing and Midwifery at Buckinghamshire New University, UK. Internationally recognised in education, he has authored 9 books and over 60 book chapters and published over 100 articles in peer-reviewed journals. Currently, Barry is the consultant editor for the International Journal of Advancing Practice (IJAP) and the clinical editor for the British Journal of Nursing (BJN).