Title Fundamentals of perioperative management / David Green, Max Ervine, Stuart White

Published London ; San Francisco, CA : Greenwich Medical Media, 2003

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Location	Call no.	Vol.	Availability
MELB	617 Gre/Fop		AVAILABLE

Description ix, 320 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm regular print Contents 1. Introduction -- 2. Accidents and complications of anaesthesia and surgery -- 3. Principles of pharmacology, autonomic physiology and circulatory control relevant to the perioperative period -- 4. Principles of preoperative assessment, optimisation and management -- 5. The process of the perioperative period: the patient's viewpoint and legal aspects of the perioperative period -- 6. Perioperative fluid therapy -- 7. Transfusion medicine in perioperative care -- 8. Practical procedures and arterial blood-gas analysis in perioperative care -- 9. Cardiorespiratory and temperature monitoring in the perioperative period -- 10. Acute pain relief and local anaesthetic techniques -- 11. Surgical infections and their management -- 12. The role of ICU/HDU in the management of high-risk surgical patients -- 13. Sepsis, trauma and the acute phase response -- 14. Principles of nutrition in perioperative medicine -- 15. Myocardial ischaemia, acute circulatory failure, life support and cardiopulmonary resuscitation -- 16. Oxygen and oxygen toxicity -- 17. Acute respiratory failure -- 18. Gastrointestinal system -- 19. Central nervous system -- 20. Miscellaneous topics -- 21. Basic statistical concepts and their application in perioperative care Summary "Readership: Senior clinical medical students, anaesthetic and surgical SHOs and all other healthcare personnel involved in perioperative patient care."--BOOK JACKET Notes Includes index "Readership: Senior clinical medical students, anaesthetic and surgical SHOs and all other healthcare personnel involved in perioperative patient care."--BOOK JACKET Subject Postoperative care. Surgery -- Patients. Surgery -- Complications. Operating room nursing. Therapeutics, Surgical. Perioperative Care. Perioperative Care. Postoperative Care. Postoperative Complications. Postoperative Period. Preoperative Care. Author White, Stuart, Dr. Ervine, Max. ISBN 1841101354 paperback

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