2nd Edition

Medical Abbreviations & Normal Ranges Survival Guide

By Helen Jones Copyright 2019

    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.

    Introduction

    Abbreviations and acronyms

    Conventional units of measurement

    Normal Ranges:

    Cardiovascular: Pulse Sites

    Blood pressure stages

    Biochemistry

    Blood composition: Coagulation screen

    Cardiac Enzymes

    Hormone levels

    Respiratory: Respiration rates

    Tidal Volumes

    Arterial Blood Gases

    Acid Base Balance

    Peak Flow readings

    Neurological: Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS)

    Renal: Urinalysis

    Fluid Balance

    Nutritional assessment: MUST

    Patient at Risk Scores: NEWS

    PEWS

    Skin assessment: WATERLOW

    Biography

    Helen Jones is Senior Lecturer, Pre-Registration Nursing at the University of Worcester, UK.