PeriAnesthesia Nursing Care: A Bedside Guide for Safe Recovery A Bedside Guide for Safe Recovery

Perianesthesia Nursing Care: A Bedside Guide to Safe Recovery serves as a reference and resource for clinicians practicing in preoperative areas, phase I and phase II PACU nursing areas, and nurses who recover patients from anesthesia in critical care areas, OB areas, and other specialty recovery areas. This book is ideal for perianesthesia nursing orientation programs and perioperative cross-training programs and is a helpful reference on any unit in which the pre- and postanesthesia patient and family are cared. Divided into three sections: core perianesthesia content areas that are applicable to all perianesthesia patients and families; population specific content; and surgery and procedure specific areas that follow body systems, this succinct clinical refernce covers the lifespan and is inclusive of content for practitioners in all types of recovery settings.

SectionI Core Concepts
Chapter1 Perianesthesia Organization and Administration
Chapter2 Preanesthesia Care and Preparation of the Patient and Family
Chapter3 Phase I & Phase II Recovery
Chapter4 Airway Issues
Chapter5 Pain Management
Chapter6 Postoperative and Post Discharge Nausea and Vomiting
Chapter7 Thermoregulation Issues
Chapter8 Fluid, Electrolyte, and Acid Base Imbalance
Chapter9 Integumentary Issues
Chapter10 Infection Prevention Strategies
Chapter11 Principles of Anesthesia
SectionII Population Specific
Chapter12 Bariatric Patients
Chapter13 Patients with Chronic Diseases
Chapter14 Critically Ill Patients
Chapter15 Extended Care/Observation Patients
Chapter16 Geriatric Patients
Chapter17 Patients with Mental Health Considerations
Chapter18 Families of Perianesthesia Patients
Chapter19 Pediatric Patients
Chapter20 Pregnant Patients
SectionIII Surgery Specific
Chapter21 Abdominal
Chapter22 Cardiac
Chapter23 Cosmetic
Chapter24 Dental/Maxillofacial/Oral
Chapter25 Endocrine
Chapter26 ENT
Chapter27 GU
Chapter28 Gynecologic & Obstetric
Chapter29 Neurosurgical
Chapter30 Oncologic
Chapter31 Ophthalmic
Chapter32 Orthopedic
Chapter33 Thoracic
Chapter34 Transplantation
Chapter35 Vascular
Chapter36 Cardiovascular Interventional
Chapter37 Endoscopic/Laparoscopic/Minimally Invasive
Chapter38 Interventional Radiology