The Complete Recovery Room Book

The care that a patient receives in the first hours after surgery is crucial to minimizing the risk of complications. The recovery room staff must manage both comatose and physiologically unstable patients, and deal with the immediate post-operative care of surgical patients.

The Complete Recovery Room Book, Sixth edition, provides nurses, surgeons, and anaesthetists with up-to-date guidance and practical tips on the post-operative management of patients. Over 30 chapters, this resource covers key aspects of recovery room management from setting-up, monitoring and equipment, and managing symptoms as well as clear and concise explanations of physiology and pharmacology. Specific chapters address the unique post-operative needs of individual types of surgery and patient groups. Practical tips and short aphorisms are offered throughout the text to help retain practical information.

Table of Contents

20 Golden Rules
1:Recovery room routines
2:Recovery room procedures
3:Design of the recovery room
4:Monitoring and equipment
5:Pain
6:Postoperative pain
7:Analgesics
8:Postoperative nausea and vomiting
9:Regional analgesia
10:Special problems
11:Pharmacology
12:Mothers and babies
13:Paediatrics
14:The elderly patient
15:Respiratory physiology
16:The respiratory system
17:Cardiovascular physiology
18:Cardiovascular disease
19:Cardiopulmonary resuscitation
20:Shock
21:Crisis management
22:The kidney
23:Fluid balance
24:Metabolism
25:Chronic disorders
26:The bleeding patient
27:Surgical issues
28:Infection control
29:Working with people
30:Working with facts
Appendix 1 Trolley set-ups
Appendix 2 Infusions
Appendix 3 Useful data
Glossary
Abbreviations
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