Preoperative Assessment and Perioperative Management

Preoperative Assessment and Perioperative Management
Edited by:
Mark Radford, Divisional Director of Nursing (Surgery) University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust, UK Visiting Professor at Birmingham City University, UK;
Alastair Williamson, Consultant Anaesthetist Good Hope Hospital, Heart of England Foundation Trust, UK;
Clare Evans, Consultant Nurse (Perioperative care) Bristol Royal Infirmary, University Hospitals Bristol Foundation Trust, UK
Paperback: 426 pages
Publisher: M&K Update Ltd (July 2011)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1905539029
ISBN-13: 978-1905539024
Product Dimensions: 9.6 x 7.4 x 1.1 inches
format: pdf | size: 8 mb |

Pre operative assessment of the surgical patient is a key part of the perioperative process. However, it is one that cannot be separated from the other aspects of perioperative management, both clinical and administrative, that ensures the safe and effective treatment of surgical patients. There are a number of books on the market that examine perioperative management anaesthesia and surgical nursing that are only able to touch on the pre-operative assessment process. Pre Operative Assessment & Perioperative Management sets out to be different, by bridging the gap between these texts and the evolving and developing area of practice that pre operative assessment has become in modern healthcare.
In order to achieve this Pre Operative Assessment & Perioperative Management has set out to deliver the core clinical aspects of practice, linked to the education and service development needs of a perioperative service. The challenge for such a book is to integrate this knowledge effectively, using the best evidence base, for use in every day practice. The brief to the contributors was to help define pre operative assessment utilising their expertise to draw out some of the leading practices and thoughts of the day. They have achieved this, ensuring that the reader has access to some of the leading experts in international perioperative practice. They have done this in an open and accessible style that will guide the reader though some complex and demanding subjects to enable them to deliver better front line care to surgical patients.

Contents
Preface
About the editors
Contributors
Chapter 1 The evolving role of the preoperative assessment team
Chapter 2 Preoperative estimation of survival and mortality risk
Chapter 3 History taking
Chapter 4 Clinical examination
Chapter 5 Pre-operative assessment of cardiovascular system and management of concurrent disease
Chapter 6 Respiratory assessment and disease
Chapter 7 Assessment of the airway
Chapter 8 Preoperative testing and perioperative management of endocrine and renal disease
Chapter 9 Preoperative assessment and management of neurological disease
Chapter 10 The role of haematology in preoperative assessment
Chapter 11 The role of blood transfusion in preoperative assessment
Chapter 12 Preoperative pharmacological optimisation
Chapter 13 Considerations in the preoperative assessment of paediatric patients
Chapter 14 Preoperative assessment and day case surgery
Chapter 15 Preparation for discharge
Chapter 16 Consent and the perioperative patient
Chapter 17 Changing the preoperative process - a review of the evidence
Chapter 18 The challenge of implementing 'new' preoperative systems
Chapter 19 Audit and evaluation of a perioperative service
Chapter 20 Developing a competency framework for preoperative assessment
Chapter 21 Developing protocol and guidance to support assessment services
Appendix
Index