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.
Contents
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: Anaesthesia
Paul 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 specialties
Sara 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 skills
Sara 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 Assisting
Sara 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: Recovery
Paul 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 Care
Paul 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
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