A practical guide for nurses transitioning into perioperative and recovery practice. Built from real perioperative nursing experience. The handbook has received thoughtful feedback from perioperative clinicians who value its practical focus, concise explanations, and clinically grounded approach.
A limited number of author copies available.
PREOPERATIVE ESSENTIALS
The relevance of preoperative checklists, baseline observations, patient preparation, fasting, the reasons behind rapid sequence induction and intubation, normothermia, intravenous fluids.
THE SCIENCE BEHIND ANAESTHESIA
The respiratory system and the cardiovascular system, ventilation, oxygenation, diffusion and perfusion, fraction of inspired oxygen, positive end expiratory pressure, the implications of anaesthesia.
INSIDE THE OPERATING ROOM & RECOVERY
Sedation levels, commonly used drugs, muscle relaxants/paralytics, types of analgesia and target receptors, airway equipment,potential risks and complications in the immediate post operative period, and much more. ..
