Rapid Perioperative Care is an essential text for students and practitioners requiring up–to–date fundamental information on the perioperative environment. Covering a wide range of subjects related to perioperative practice and care, each chapter is concise and focused to guide the reader to find information quickly and effectively. This book uses a structured approach to perioperative care, starting with an introduction to the perioperative environment, anaesthetics, surgery and recovery, followed by postoperative problems and finally the roles of the Surgical Care Practitioner (SCP). Covering all the key topics in the perioperative environment, this concise and easy–to–read title is the perfect quick–reference book for students and theatre practitioners to support them in their work in clinical practice, and enable them to deliver the best possible care. INDICE: Preface .Acknowledgements .Abbreviations .Section 1: Preoperative Preparation .Paul Wicker .1. The Role of the Anaesthetic Practitioner .2. The Role of the Surgical Practitioner .3. The Role of the Recovery Practitioner .4. Preoperative assessment of perioperative patients .5. Perioperative Patient Care .6. Operating Theatre Attire and Personal Protective Equipment .7. Surgical Safety Checklist .8. Teaching Students How To Use Operating Theatre Equipment .9. Perioperative Equipment .10. Managing Perioperative Medication .11. Interprofessional Learning and collaboration .12. Preventing Surgical Site Infection .13. Skin Preperation for Surgery .Section 2: AnaesthesiaPaul Wicker .14. Preoperative evaluation of the anaesthetic patient .15. Preparing anaesthetic equipment .16. Checking the anaesthetic machine .17. Anatomy and Physiology: the cardiovascular system .18. Anatomy and Physiolog: the lungs .19. General Anaesthesia .20. Local Anaesthesia .21. Regional Anaesthesia .22. Rapid Sequence induction .23. Total Intravenous Anaesthesia .24. Airway management .25. General Anaesthetic pharmacology .26. Intraoperative Fluid Management .27. Monitoring Perioperative Patients .Section 3: Surgical specialtiesSara Dalby .28. Laparoscopic Surgery .29. Vascular surgery .30. Cardiothoracic surgery .31. Orthopaedics and trauma .32. Gynaecology surgery .33. Plastic surgery .34. Urology .35. Breast surgery .36. Endocrine surgery .37. Colorectal surgery .38. Upper Gastrointestinal Surgery .39. Hepato–pancreato–biliary surgery .Section 4: Surgical scrub skillsSara Dalby .40. Basic Surgical Instrumentation .41. Surgical Positioning .42. Thermoregulation .43. Skin Preparation .44. Surgical draping .45. Surgical site marking .46. Swab Counts and Instrument Checks .47. Measures to prevent wound infection .48. Electrosurgery .49. Wound healing and Dressings .50. Bladder Catheterisaton .51. Tourniquet management .52. Haemostasis Techniques .53. Surgical drains .54. Handling of Specimens .Section 5: Surgical AssistingSara Dalby .55. Legal and professional issues .56. Surgical First Assistant .57. Surgical care Practitioner .58. Pre– and Post–Operative Visiting .59. Retraction .60. Cutting of Sutures .61. Suture materials .62. Surgical needles .63. Wound Closure .64. Suturing methods .65. Alternative Methods of Wound Closure .66. Injection of local anaesthetic .67. Injection of Local Anaesthetic for Wound Infiltration .68. Camera Holding .Section 6: RecoveryPaul Wicker .69. Recovery Room Design .70. Patient handover .71. Postoperative patient care .72. Postoperative Patient Monitoring and Equipment .73. Maintaining the airway .74. Diagnosis and Management of Postoperative Infection .75. Postoperative pain management .76. Fluid Balance in Postoperative Patients .77. Postoperative medications .78. Managing bleeding problems .79. Managing postoperative nausea and vomiting .80. Critical issues in postoperative care .81. Enhanced Recovery .Section 7: Perioperative Critical CarePaul Wicker .82. Critical Care Nurses and Practitioners Roles .83. Management of the Critically Ill Surgical Patient .84. Malignant hyperthermia .85. Inadvertent Hypothermia .86. Congestive Heart Failure .87. Venous Thromboembolism .88. Latex allergy .89. Pressure ulcers .90. Managing Diabetes in Perioperative Patients .91. Smoking, alcohol and drug abuse .92. Perioperative Care of Elderly Patients .93. Anaemia Coagulopathy and Bleeding .94. Care of Morbidly Obese Patients .References
- ISBN: 978-1-119-12123-7
- Editorial: Wiley–Blackwell
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 480
- Fecha Publicación: 18/11/2016
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés