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Perioperative Safety
Your essential reference on safety in the perioperative surgical setting
Donna S. Watson (Author)
9780323069854, Elsevier Health Sciences
Paperback / softback, published 23 April 2010
424 pages, 100 illus.
22.9 x 15.1 x 2.7 cm, 0.49 kg
The only book devoted to this increasingly important issue, Perioperative Safety helps you reduce risk in a setting where even small errors can lead to life-threatening complications. Expert author Donna Watson addresses essential safety principles and concepts, covering patient safety with topics such as the latest safety strategies and initiatives, perioperative safe medication use, preventing infections, anesthesia safety, normothermia management, and electrosurgery. Coverage of staff and workplace safety helps you minimize risk with bloodborne pathogens, latex allergy, the use of lasers, and radiation exposure. Case studies show the application of safety concepts in real-world situations.
Unit I: Overview of Perioperative Safety 1. Essential Components for a Patient Safety Strategy 2. Initiatives to Improve Patient Safety 3. Use of MEDMARX Data for the Support and Development of Perioperative Medication Policy 4. Competence, Nursing Practice, and Safe Patient Care Unit II: Patient Safety 5. Perioperative Safe Medication Use: A Focused Review 6. Fire Prevention in the Perioperative Setting: Perioperative Fires Can Occur Everywhere 7. Bloodless Surgery and Patient Safety Issues 8. Perioperative Patient Safety and Procedural Sedation 9. Incidence of Deep Venous Thrombosis in the Surgical Patient Population and Prophylactic Measures to Reduce Occurrence 10. Preventative Measures for Wrong Site, Wrong Person and Wrong Procedure Errors in the Perioperative Setting 11. To Count or Not to Count: A Surgical Misadventure 12. Anesthesia and Perioperative Safety 13. Preventing Surgical Site Infections 14. Prevention of Positioning Injuries 15. Normothermia Management: Prevention of Harm from Perioperative Hypothermia 16. Electrosurgery Unit III: Workplace Safety 17. Workplace Safety Current Issues & Trends 18. Hazards from Surgical Smoke: Decreasing Your Risk 19. Bloodborne Pathogens 20. Laser Risks and Preventive Measures for Staff 21. Preventing Back Injuries: Patient Transfer and Mobility 22. Latex Allergy 23. Minimizing Radiation Exposure 24. Infectious Disease Exposure 25. Dealing with Disruptive Behavior in the Perioperative Setting Unit IV: Looking Ahead 26. Safety in the Perioperative Setting: Vendor Support 27. Using Human Factors to Balance Your Operating Room
Subject Areas: Nursing [MQC]
