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Casting: complications and after care

02 June 2009

Emergency Nurse

Feature

This article continues a short series of articles on how to apply casts. It examines some of the complications experienced by patients and discusses how emergency...

Advanced practice in the management of extravasation

09 June 2011

Cancer Nursing Practice

Feature

Extravasation is a complication of chemotherapy that occurs when a vesicant drug is accidentally administered into the tissue surrounding the intravenous access...

Caring for surgical patients with sickle cell disease

08 May 1996

Nursing Standard

Sickle cell disease

For thousands of people in the UK today sickle cell disease (SCD) is a serious, debilitating and at times severely handicapping condition. This is particularly so...

Ocular complications associated with diabetes mellitus

12 March 2008

Nursing Standard

CPD

Diabetes is a progressive disease that may adversely affect healthy functioning of the body. The eyes are often indicators of systemic disease and are particularly...

Thyroidectomy: post-operative care and common complications

27 April 2011

Nursing Standard

CPD

Any surgical procedure involves risks. Thyroid surgery can cause potentially fatal complications during the early post-operative phase. It is essential that nurses...

Management of patients with low-risk febrile neutropenia

10 June 2015

Cancer Nursing Practice

Art & Science

The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence in the UK advocates that patients with neutropenia who are at low risk of developing septic complications...

Observational prospective cohort study on fluid infusion rate and cisplatin-associated complications

01 December 2013

Cancer Nursing Practice

Art & Science

Aim To evaluate the influence of hydration infusion rate on frequency of systemic complications during chemotherapy administration and intercycle follow up. Method A...

Flu Blues

08 November 2005

Nursing Standard

General article

Flu is at best miserable and at worst can have serious complications. Children are as vulnerable to the infection as adults and in certain circumstances vaccination...

Neutropenic sepsis: prevention, identification and treatment

27 April 2016

Nursing Standard

CPD

Chemotherapy-induced neutropenia may result in significant physical, social and emotional consequences for patients receiving anticancer therapy....

Improving perinatal mental health care

29 September 2004

Nursing Standard

Art & Science

Pregnancy and the puerperium can bring many emotional, physical and social changes to the mother, her partner and the rest of the family. While many mothers find...

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