This handbook provides practical, easily accessible and up-to-date evidence-based information on the essential elements of perioperative practice. It offers a thorough introduction to the principles and practice of anaesthetic practice, intraoperative care and recovery nursing.
This book presents critical, need-to-know concepts in perioperative care, from preoperative risk assessment to postoperative follow-up. This edition includes new information on preoperative assessment, and updated sections on cardiology and pulmonary medicine.
Offers recommendations for preventing and managing complications in general surgery procedures. In this title, the opening sections discuss institutional risk management issues and risks common to all operations, such as wound healing problems, infection, shock, and complications in immunosuppressed patients.
Includes topics such as: Pre and Intra-operative Maneuvers to Optimize Surgical Outcomes; Pre-operative CT evaluation to optimize surgical outcomes; Complications in the use of systemic steroids for sinusitis; Post-operative management for the prevention of complications after sinus surgery; and, Prevention and management of Lacrimal Duct Injury.
The care a patient receives immediately after surgery is crucial to minimizing the risk of complications, but many hospitals still do not have formally organized recovery rooms. Now in its fourth edition, this book has established itself as the definitive guide on how to set up, equip, staff, and administer this acute care unit.
A guide that provides an account of the key issues involved in the assessment and management of surgical wounds, tubes, drains, lines and stomas - from the operating theatre to the Critical Care unit and from the ward into the community. Suitable for GPs, surgical nurses, and junior doctors, it also highlights common pitfalls.