Monitoring critically ill patients in accident and emergency.
Nurses play a vital role in A&E, monitoring patients' physiological responses to stress and disease, and identifying any deterioration in their condition so that appropriate treatment can be instigated. This article describes the monitoring techniques used in A&E to assess critically ill patients.
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