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          Trauma, 238–241          modes of ventilation, 8–9
          Traumatic brain injury (TBI),  nursing care for patients with, 9–10
           149–151, 238            pneumonia associated with, 14,
          Traumatic pneumothorax, 125  34, 112–115
          T-tube weaning, 11       weaning from, 10–12
          Tube feedings, 25–29    Ventricular assist devices (VADs),
          Tubocurarine, 258        56–57
          Tumor lysis syndrome (TLS),  Ventilator associated pneumonia
           210–211                 VAP), 110, 112
          12-lead EGC, 89         Ventricular dysrhythmias, 90–91
                                  Ventricular fibrillation (VF), 83–84,
          U                        102
          Ulcerative colitis, 191–193  Ventricular tachycardia (VT), 83–84,
          Unstable angina (UA), 46–48  101
          Upper GI (UGI) bleeding, 174–181  Verapamil, 258
          Urinary tract infections, catheter-  Vitamin K deficiency, 204–205
           associated (CAUTI), 34  Volume-assisted pressure support
          Urokinase, 258           (VAPS), 9
                                  Volume-cycled ventilator, 8
          V                       Volume guaranteed pressure
          Valve replacement, cardiac, 66–69  options (VGPO), 9
          Varices, esophageal, 177–181
          Vasopressin, 258        W
          Venoarterial (VA) ECMO, 111  Weaning from ventilator, 10–12
          Venous blood gases, 2   Web resources for evidence-based
          Venovenous (VV) ECMO, 110–111  practices, 272–273
          Ventilation/perfusion (V/Q) mismatch,  Well’s Criteria for Pulmonary
           111–112                 Embolism, 122
          Ventilators, 8–16       Wenckebach phenomenon, 104
           alarms in, 12–13       Whipple’s procedure, 198
           classification of, 8   Withdrawal, sedative or analgesic, 39
           complications of, 14–16  Wound care in burns, 247–248










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