The care that a patient receives in the first hours after surgery is crucial to minimizing the risk of complications such as heart attacks, pneumonia, and blood clots. As the patient awakes from their drug-induced coma, it takes time for them to metabolize and excrete these drugs, during which period they remain unable to care for themselves, and at increased risk of harm. The recovery room staff must manage both comatose and physiologically unstable patients, and
deal with the immediate post-operative care of surgical patients.
The fifth edition of this popular book provides nurses, surgeons and anaesthetists with clear guidance on how to manage day-to-day problems and how to make difficult decisions. Previous editions of this book have established it as the definitive guide to setting-up, equipping, staffing, and administering an acute care unit. It includes basic science such as physiology and pharmacology, specific symptoms including pain and vomiting, and has chapters devoted to the unique post-operative needs of
individual types of surgery.
This new edition brings this important text up to date and new drugs and techniques for monitoring are described. A new section looks ahead to the future development and design of recovery rooms and how they can contribute to patient well being.
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Featured as an 'Essential Purchase' on Doody's Core Titles List for 2018 This comprehensive book provides clear guidance on how to manage the postoperative care of surgical patients. The fifth edition of a book that was originally published in 1992, this update includes the most current medications and monitoring techniques for managing postsurgical patients. * Doody *
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Höhe: 247 mm
Breite: 170 mm
Dicke: 32 mm
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978-0-19-966604-1 (9780199666041)
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Dr Hatfield is an anaesthetist with an interest in operating theatre safety and the outcomes for patients at their most vulnerable time, directly after they have been anaesthetised and are in the recovery room. She is works at Wairarapa Hospital in Masterton, New Zealand.
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Consultant AnaesthetistConsultant Anaesthetist, Wairarapa Hospital, Masterton, New Zealand
1. Recovery room routines ; 2. Recovery room procedures ; 3. Design of recovery room ; 4. Monitoring and equipment ; 5. Pain ; 6. Postoperative pain ; 7. Analgesics ; 8. Postoperative nausea and vomiting ; 9. Regional analgesia ; 10. Special problems ; 11. Pharmacology ; 12. Mothers and babies ; 13. Paediatrics ; 14. The elderly patient ; 15. Respiratory physiology ; 16. The respiratory system ; 17. Cardiovascular physiology ; 18. Cardiovascular disease ; 19. Cardiopulmonary resuscitation ; 20. Shock ; 21. Crisis management ; 22. The kidney ; 23. Fluid balance ; 24. Metabolism ; 25. Chronic disorders ; 26. The bleeding patient ; 27. Surgical issues ; 28. Infection control ; 29. Working with people ; 30. Working with facts ; Appendix 1: Trolley set-ups ; Appendix 2: Infusions ; Appendix 3: Useful data ; Glossary ; Abbreviations
