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Coronary care is the newcomer to intensive care and illustrates all five of the essentials of intensive care described in Chapter 1. The nurse is the chief observer and chief therapist. Electronic equipment displays and records the ECG but specifically trained nurses are required to observe the ECG and interpret the record. Resuscitation for cardiac arrest is successful only when given promptly and here again the nurse initiates the therapy. Oxygen therapy and drug therapy are given by the nursing team. Standardized methods of investigation and treatment are as essential to coronary care as they ]are for the treatment of asthma or shock. Readily available medical man-power is needed for resuscitation and the treatment of dysrhythmias.
The pulse is, at least sometimes, not disturbed by this pain, and consequently the heart is not affected by it. William Heberden, 1772
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Jones, E.S. (1978). Coronary Care. In: Essential Intensive Care. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-9644-1_8
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