Rapid Perioperative Care

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
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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
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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

Paul Wicker is Visiting Professor at the First Hospital of Nanjing, China and Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, UK.

Sara Dalby is Surgical Care Practitioner at Aintree University Hospital Trust, and Associate Lecturer at Edge Hill University, UK.
Paul