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WATER AND ELECTROLYTES: IMPLICA- TIONS FOR NURSING PRACTICE by f s a - be1 E . Dutcher and Sandra B. Fielo, The Mac- millan Company, New York, 1967,199 pages. Price $6.95.

The growing role of the nurse on the active health team increases the need for books of this kind. Divided into sections: The State of Equilibrium, The State of Disequilibrium, and Replacement Therapy and Needs; i t provides the graduate professional nurse with long-needed and easily understood reference about a difficult subject.

Each chapter is liberally laced with hints for nursing care of the patient with electro- lyte imbalance. Problems with equipment. water balance, hidden dilution, and drug tox- icity in the presence of electrolyte imbalance are handled. Especially valuable are the list- ing of symptoms according to the chemical disturbance present.

This volume deserves a place on the library shelf of every nurse clinician involved with these problems.

LORA CRAIG, R.N. Winter Park, Florida

BOOKLETS “Tentative Standard for Inhalation Therapy,” No. 56B-T, National Fire Protection Asso- ciation, 28 pages. 50 cents. This pamphlet discusses administration of oxygen and other inhalation therapy agents in hospitals and other medical facilities.

Although a tentative standard subject to revision before officially adopted, it would be informative in controlling potential ignition sources in and around oxygen-enriched at- mospheres. The increasing variety of inhala- tion therapy procedures involving use of masks, catheters and cannulas, and tents ne- cessitates this detailed treatment of hazards. Copies of the 1966 edition are available by writing NFPA, 60 Batterymarch St., Boston, Mass. 02110. ..

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