Surgical Care Made Incredibly Visual
Surgical Care Made Incredibly Visual is illustrated throughout the book with full color charts, diagrams, vignettes, tables, questionnaires, checklists, and more!
Contents
Preoperative Care
- History of surgery
- Surgical team
- Informed consent
- Phases of surgery
- Diagnostic testing
- Preoperative assessment
- Anesthesia evaluation
- Patient teaching
- Preoperative verification
Fundamentals of Anesthesia
- Anesthesia basics
- General anesthesia stages
- Balanced anesthesia
- Four levels of sedation and anesthesia
- General anesthetics
- Regional anesthetics
- Local anesthetics
Perioperative Care
- Surgical suite environment
- Infection control principles
- Surgical asepsis
- Setting up for OR cases
- Patient arrival in the surgical suite
- Cleanup
Procedures
- Abdominal aortic aneurysm repair to breast cancer surgery
- Carotid endarterectomy to craniotomy
- Femoral bypass grafting to hysterectomy
- Joint replacement to prostatectomy
- Thoracotomy to valular surgery
Perianesthesia Care
- Perianesthesia nursing care basics
- Immediate postoperative assessment
- Postanesthesia complications
- PACU discharge criteria
Postoperative Care
- Postoperative assessment
- Reducing the risk of complications
- Managing pain
- Managing postoperative complications
- Patient discharge needs
- Discharge summaries
Index
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