Part of the skill of nursing and healthcare involves being able to decipher and understand the meanings of results and abbreviations. Fully updated, this second edition is a handy survival guide which will supply you with up-to-date information and help you understand this language, so that you can provide appropriate holistic care to your patients.

Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Introduction; Abbreviations and acronyms; Conventional units of measurement; Normal ranges; Cardiovascular; Pulse Sites; Blood pressure stages; Biochemistry; Blood composition; Coagulation screen; Cardiac enzymes; Hormones levels; Respiratory; Respiration rates; Tidal volumes; Arterial blood gases; Acid-base balance; Peak flow readings; Neurological; Glasgow coma scale (GCS); Renal; Urinanalysis; Fluid balance; Nutritional assessment; MUST; Patients at risk scores; NEWS; PEWS; References.