Clinical Pocket Reference Operating Department Practice

Clinical Pocket Reference Operating Department Practice with Critical Care 4th edition

Introduction



1. Key principles



1.1 Patient safety



1.2 Informed consent



1.3 Communication and handover



1.4 Drug calculations



2. Anaesthesia



2.1 Checklist for anaesthetic equipment



2.2 Medical gases



2.3 American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA, 2014)
grading



2.4 Pre-operative fasting



2.5 Regional anaesthesia anaesthesia and local infiltration



2.6 Commonly used anaesthetic drugs



2.7 Endotracheal tubes (ETTs)



2.8 Supraglottic airway devices (SADs)



2.9 Airway management and adjuncts



2.10 Patient monitoring



2.11 Patient warming



2.12 Diffi cult airway management



2.13 Rapid sequence induction (RSI)



3. Surgery



3.1 Surgical instruments



3.2 Surgical hand-washing procedure



3.3 Patient positioning



3.4 Surgical site classification, infection and wound
healing



3.5 Surgical counts



3.6 Wound closure



3.7 Wound dressings and drains



3.8 Handling specimens



3.9 Urinary catheterization



3.10 Tourniquets



4. Post-anaesthesia care



4.1 ABCDEFG assessment



4.2 Normal physiological values and escalation



4.3 Non-invasive blood pressure monitoring



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4.4 Invasive pressure monitoring



4.5 Neurology



4.6 Oxygen administration



4.7 Blood products and transfusion



4.8 Blood gases



4.9 Fluid balance and urine output



4.10 Acute pain assessment and management



4.11 Post-operative nausea and vomiting (PONV)



4.12 Neurovascular observations



5. Emergencies



5.1 Laryngospasm



5.2 Bronchospasm



5.3 Anaphylaxis



5.4 Malignant hyperth



5.5 Local anaesthetic toxicity



5.6 Major haemorrhage



5.7 Inadequate neuromuscular blockade reversal



5.8 Shock



5.9 Sepsis (adult)



5.10 Cardiac arrest



5.11 Emergency drugs



6. Critical care



6.1 Intra-/inter-hospital transfer



6.2 Commonly used drugs in critical care



6.3 A?E approach of the critical
care patient



6.4 Ventilation modes in critical care



6.5 Intubation in the critical care environment



6.6 Bronchoscopy and percutaneous tracheostomy



Abbreviations



Acknowledgments, further reading and common surgical terminology (accessed via QR code)



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