| The Oxford Handbook of Perioperative Practice offers readers practical, easily accessible, concise, and up-to-date evidence-based information on the essential elements of perioperative practice. It provides a thorough introduction to the principles and practice of anaesthetics, intraoperative care, and recovery nursing, focusing on the patient's journey, before, during, and after surgery. Containing many helpful illustrations and diagrams to guide the reader, along with references to national and international guidelines, the Oxford Handbook of Perioperative Practice assists practitioners in meeting the individual needs of surgical patients while ensuring safe and efficient care delivery. It enables readers to easily locate information about essential skills, patients' medical conditions, and perioperative and surgical patient management. It covers all setps of the perioperative process, and also contains an extensive section on pharmacology, as well as a section on perioperative emergencies. The book is clearly laid out and written in an easily readable note-based style. Blank pages are included for the reader, so that notes, observations, and local protocols can be included, thereby individualizing the handbook. Written by teaching staff and clinicians from the fields of nursing, operating department practice and pharmacy, the OXford Handbook of Perioperative Practice offers an interdisciplinary and interprofessional approach to perioperative practice for those studying the subject and those practicing within the perioperative environment. |
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| Binding: Softcover |
| Specs: 618 pages | .68 Lbs |
| ISBN: 0199239649 |
| ISBN-13: 9780199239641 |
| Edition: 1 |
| Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated | Publish Date 08/09 | Copyright 2009 |
| Series: Oxford Handbooks in Nursing |
| Format: Brit/Hndbk/Pktbk |
Table Of Contents:
1. Perioperative practice
2. Professional issues in perioperative practice
3. Admission of surgical patients
4. Pre-assessment of surgical patients
5. Patients with pre-existing diseases
6. Preparing the patient for theatre
7. Principles of anaesthesia
8. Essential anaesthetic equipment
9. Scientific principles
10. Airway management
11. Complications associated with anaesthesia
12. Specialist anaesthesia
13. Decontamination and sterilisation
14. Thermoregulation
15. Skin preparation
16. Operating theatre practice
17. Patient positioning for surgery
18. Wound management
19. Surgical equipment
20. Preparation of recovery
21. Caring for the post anaesthesia patient
22. Perioperative pharmacology
23. Pain management
24. Perioperative drugs
25. Fluid therapy and fluid replacement
26. Emergency care
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