Oxford Handbook of Perioperative Practice

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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. Dedication Foreword • Jean White Preface Acknowledgements Contents Surgical terms Symbols and abbreviations Detailed contents Section 1: Principles of perioperative care 1 Perioperative practice 2 Professional issues in perioperative practice 3 Admission of surgical patients Section 2: Preoperative care 4 Pre-assessment of surgical patients 5 Patients with pre-existing disease 6 Preparing the patient for theatre Section 3: Principles of anaesthesia 7 Principles of anaesthesia 8 Essential anaesthetic equipment 9 Scientific principles 10 Airway management 11 Complications associated with anaesthesia 12 Specialist anaesthesia Section 4: Intraoperative care 13 Decontamination and sterilisation 14 Thermoregulation 15 Patient skin preparation 16 Operating theatre practice 17 Patient positioning for surgery 18 Wound management 19 Surgical equipment 20 Preparation of the recovery room Section 5: Postoperative care 21 Caring for the post-anaesthesia patient 22 Perioperative pharmacology 23 Pain management 24 Perioperative drugs 25 Fluid therapy and fluid replacement Section 6: Management principles of emergency care 26 Emergency care Index