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Nursing August 2010 Bartley & Shiflett	Handle older trauma patients with care Your comprehensive understanding of how age-related changes can affect outcomes during and after trauma will help your patients recover to the fullest extent possible.
American Journal of Nursing June 2007 Baugh et al.	Wounds in Surgical Patients Who Are Obese Surgery, whether bariatric or not, puts this population at risk. Review the basics of prevention and care.
Nursing March 2011 Ali & Gray-Vickrey	Limiting the Damage From Acute Kidney Injury This article will discuss your role in early detection and management of AKI with an emphasis on care for older adults.
Nursing November 2011 Jeanne Held-Warmkessel	Taming Three High-Risk Chemotherapy Complications A review of three common chemotherapy-associated complications that can be serious enough to require hospitalization: febrile neutropenia, chemotherapy-related nephrotoxicity, and chemotherapy-related enterotoxicity.
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Nursing March 2009 Mary G. McKinley	Recognizing and Responding to Acute Liver Failure By quickly recognizing the signs and symptoms of acute liver failure, you can help your patient improve his odds of surviving this often-deadly condition.
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Nursing September 2011 Jacqueline Harden	Take a cool look at therapeutic hypothermia Therapeutic hypothermia may help prevent or minimize neurologic impairment in certain patients after cardiac arrest. This article takes a look at when TH is used and how to care for patients who are undergoing this intervention.
American Journal of Nursing November 2009	Trauma in Pregnancy A description of the mechanisms of traumatic injury during pregnancy includes a discussion of the normal changes of pregnancy and their implications in the care of pregnant trauma patients, and offers strategies for assessment and treatment.
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Nursing Management February 2008 Susan Gallagher Camden	A Captive Condition: Childhood Obesity Both patient safety and caregiver injury are fast becoming serious considerations in managing care of children who are obese.
Nursing March 2010 Peg Gray-Vickrey	Gathering pearls of knowledge for assessing older adults If you attended nursing school more than 10 years ago, you may have received limited education about gerontological nursing. But as baby boomers age, this is becoming an increasingly important area of nursing practice.
Nursing July 2009 Rachel L. Palmieri	Unlocking the secrets of locked-in syndrome Locked-in syndrome is characterized by complete paralysis of the voluntary muscles in all parts of the body except those that control blinking and vertical eye movements.
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Managed Care October 2004 Thomas Morrow	Wound Healing Promoted with Living-Skin Substitutes Traditional therapies predominate in wound care, but for those patients with chronic conditions, engineered skin may be a welcome relief from pain and infection.
American Journal of Nursing March 2011 Jablonski et al.	The Use of Algorithms in Assessing and Managing Persistent Pain in Older Adults This article introduces readers to the use of algorithms in guiding the assessment and management of persistent pain in older adults, and provides an illustrative case study.
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American Journal of Nursing January 2010	Life-Support Interventions at the End of Life: Unintended Consequences Nurses need to be knowledgeable life-support interventions at the end of life and able to communicate what they know about those consequences to patients, family members, and others on the health care team, leading to better decision making at this difficult time.
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