Main description:

A clinical pocket reference provides key information that a healthcare practitioner will require on placement and in practice, selected by experienced teachers/practitioners, clearly written and presented, drawn from a wide range of different sources, packaged in an easily accessible portable format suitable for pocket or mobile devices.
This comprehensive new revised and expanded edition of Clinical Pocket Reference Operating Department Practice contains a new key principles section including perioperative roles and responsibilities, effective communication, and assertiveness techniques. The contributors have expanded contents within the anaesthetic, surgical and recovery topics to reflect and support the development of the modern day ODP/ perioperative practitioner and indicative graduate education of the multi-professional preoperative team.
New topics includes blood gas analysis, invasive monitoring, difficult airway procedures, body cavities and surgical incisions, role of the surgical first assistant, A-G patient assessment and nutrition and hydration.

Contents:

1 Key principles: American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) grading, Patient safety, Informed consent, Communication, Clinical roles within the peri-operative environment, Systeme International (SI) units of measurement, Drug calculations.
2 Anaesthesia: Checklist for anaesthetic equipment, Peri-operative fasting, Neuromuscular blockades and antagonists: muscle relaxants and reversal, Endotracheal tubes (ETTs), Laryngeal mask airways (LMAs), Emergency airway procedures, Airway management, Air embolism, Malignant hyperpyrexia/hyperthermia, Medical gases, Monitoring
3 Surgical topics: Patient positioning, Surgical hand-wash procedure, Surgical site infection, classification and wound healing, Surgical counts, Urinary catheters, Tourniquets, Sutures, Wound dressings, Handling specimens, National Safety Standards for Invasive Procedures (NatSSIPs), Day Surgery.
4 Recovery: ABCDEFG assessment, National Early Warning Score (NEWS), Normal physiological values, Measuring BP, CVP and JVP, Neurology, Oxygen administration, Nutrition, Fluid and electrolyte balance, Blood, Urinalysis, Acute pain, Responding to emergencies, Post-operative nausea and vomiting (PONV).