Perioperative Drill-Based Crisis Management

This manual provides medical professionals with a script to run, discuss, and evaluate effective emergency drills in the perioperative setting.

Steven Butz (Edited by)

9781107546936, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 19 November 2015

93 pages, 17 b/w illus. 9 tables
24.5 x 19 x 0.6 cm, 0.24 kg

'… this manual offers a quick, easy, and inexpensive approach to developing drills in any institution with a surgical center. Furthermore, we also think that the useful content and realistic structure of these scenarios can serve as a blueprint to develop mock oral exams for anesthesiology residents in training.' Vicente Behrens and Jason Wigley, Anesthesia and Analgesia

It is essential that medical professionals in the operating room regularly undertake emergency drills. This unique book takes what can be an onerous task for leaders and operating room physicians, and makes it easy. Chapters cover drills ranging from medical emergencies such as cardiac arrest and malignant hyperthermia, to non-medical emergencies such as an active shooter and evacuation of a medical facility. Each chapter includes at least three scenarios for a specific type of drill, with expected actions and educational material for debriefing. The latest specialty guidelines and algorithms are included throughout and key learning points are highlighted for each drill, removing the need for further detailed research in advance of each exercise. Written and edited by leading experts in the field and endorsed by the Society for Ambulatory Anesthesia, this manual enables every reader to lead a meaningful drill with educational value for all participants.

List of contributors
Preface
Glossary
1. Cardiac arrest: acute coronary syndrome Amir Shbeeb and Catherine Schulz
2. Reversible causes of cardiac arrest Steven Butz
3. Malignant hyperthermia Fatima Ahmad
4. Delayed emergence Claude Abdallah
5. Recovery room issues Rose Campise-Luther
6. Acute pulmonary embolism Shyamal Asher and David M. Dickerson
7. Difficult airway Connie K. Tran and Sonal N. Zambare
8. Local anesthetic systemic toxicity Niraja Rajan and Steven Butz
9. Violence in the workplace: an active shooter in an ASC Deborah S. Lowery
10. Emergency preparedness and evacuation in an ASC Niraja Rajan and Deborah S. Lowery
Index.

Subject Areas: Surgery [MN], Accident & emergency medicine [MMK], Anaesthetics [MMB]