Caring for the Perioperative Patient:

Caring for the Perioperative Patient is a practical, evidence-based and innovative book that identifies and discusses the essential core skills and knowledge required by perioperative practitioners to care for their patients. Divided into two sections, the first explores core perioperative issues, such as pharmacology, communication, homeostasis, and equipment. The second part of the book looks at more specific perioperative practice issues, including enhanced competence, patient preparation, and care of the patient during anaesthesia, surgery, and recovery.
This updated new edition is skills-focused and uses examples of techniques or procedures to illustrate how skills can be applied in perioperative practice. It is essential reading for nurses or operating department practitioners (ODPs) who perform scrub, circulating, anaesthetic and recovery roles whilst caring for perioperative patients, as well as nursing and ODP students working in perioperative care.

New edition of a successful text for perioperative practitioners and students
Emphasises holistic patient centred care
Focused on key skills and knowledge required by practitioners
Explores the evidence-base for safe and effective practice Common terms and phrases:

AAGBI administer administration of intravenous airway management anaes anaesthetic drugs anaesthetic equipment anaesthetic is injected anaesthetic practitioner anaesthetic room anaesthetist analgesia anaphylaxis Assist the anaesthetist blood bougie breathing circuit bronchospasm catheter catheter mount correct position cricoid cartilage cricoid pressure cuff difficult airway elderly patients Emergency equipment ensure epidural needle epidural space equipment available face mask fibre-optic laryngoscope following local policy gastric contents glottis Gwinnutt hypotension induction drugs inflation inhalational intravenous drugs intravenous infusion laryngeal mask airway laryngoscope larynx local anaesthetic lubricated maintain monitoring equipment nasal cannula Normal saline outlined in Box paediatric patient pain management patient throughout patient’s airway perioperative journey pharynx physiological readings postoperative preoperative Record all physiological regional anaesthesia respiratory Resuscitation equipment risk Role Ryles tube sedation spinal anaesthesia standard LMA sterilisation surgeon surgery surgical procedure syringe tap for administration temperature thetic throughout the procedure tracheal intubation tracheal tube venous cannulation ventilation vocal cords warmer and extension