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Drain's PeriAnesthesia Nursing

  • 8th Edition
  • December 27, 2022
  • Jan Odom-Forren
  • English
**Selected for Doody’s Core Titles® 2024 with "Essential Purchase" designation in Perioperative**Trusted for more than 30 years, Drain's PeriAnesthesia Nursing: A Critical Care Approach, 8th Edition provides comprehensive clinical content tailored specifically for perianesthesia nurses. An easy-to-use format with five distinct sections — covering the PACU, anatomy and physiology, pharmacology, nursing care, and special considerations — means you get the equivalent of five books in one. Nursing and pharmacologic interventions are integrated with in-depth coverage of pathophysiology, and updated content includes the latest standards and current issues affecting perianesthesia nursing practice. Focusing on research, documentation, and psychosocial considerations, this is the one book that can take you all the way from being a novice nurse in the PACU to preparing for CPAN® or CAPA® certification!

Alexander's Care of the Patient in Surgery

  • 17th Edition
  • July 1, 2022
  • Jane C. Rothrock
  • English
**Selected for Doody’s Core Titles® 2024 in Perioperative**Gain the knowledge and skills you need to provide safe, effective perioperative nursing care! Alexander’s Care of the Patient in Surgery, 17th Edition is the definitive resource for nurses and surgical technologists training for a career in the operating room. Illustrated, step-by-step instructions cover patient care in more than 400 surgical interventions, including patient positioning, instrumentation, and postoperative care. Along with the latest on robotic surgery and a review of evidence-based guidelines, this edition includes new coverage of COVID-19 and gender affirmation surgery. From well-known educator Jane C. Rothrock — and with every chapter authored by an expert nurse — Alexander’s gives you the tools you need to pass the CNOR© certification exam and succeed in the surgical setting.

Klinikleitfaden Anästhesiepflege

  • 4th Edition
  • June 8, 2022
  • Eva Knipfer + 1 more
  • German
Dieses Kitteltaschenbuch steht mit Rat und Tat zur Seite – nicht nur, wenn es eilt: Was gibt es für Anästhesieverfahren und wann werden sie angewendet, bei welchen Erkrankungen muss welche Vorsichtsmaßnahme getroffen werden und was für Besonderheiten müssen erwartet werden Medikamente, deren Nebenwirkungen und Komplikationen Wie wartet und bedient man das Narkosegerät ? Wie reagiert man bei Operationszwischenfällen? Was gibt es für Besonderheiten bei welchen Krankheitsbildern? Praktische Hilfen und kompaktes Fachwissen auf den Punkt gebracht: so meistern Sie jede Operation. Auch als Lektüre in den ''handlungsfreien'' Zeiten während der Operation! Neu in der 4. Auflage: Extrakapitel: Ökologische Nachhaltigkeit in der Anästhesiologie Komplett neu: Psychosoziale Betreuung und therapeutische Kommunikation in der Anästhesie Alle anderen Kapitel überarbeitet und die neuesten Leitlinien angepasst

Case Studies in Nurse Anesthesia

  • 1st Edition
  • March 3, 2021
  • Sass Elisha
  • English
Clinical case studies make it easy to learn and master perioperative nurse anesthesia! Written in a succinct question-and-answer format, Case Studies in Nurse Anesthesia covers anesthesia management for the most frequently performed surgical procedures. Chapters are organized by surgical specialty, and each case describes the entire perioperative course of care, including the patient’s history, physical assessment, anesthetic considerations, surgical concerns, differential diagnosis, and potential complications. From noted anesthesia educator Sass Elisha, this reference will help you learn how to think like a highly skilled nurse anesthetist!

Berry & Kohn's Operating Room Technique

  • 14th Edition
  • June 22, 2020
  • Nancymarie Phillips + 1 more
  • English
**Selected for Doody’s Core Titles® 2024 with "Essential Purchase" designation in Perioperative**Easily learn how to apply basic surgical principles and techniques with Berry & Kohn’s Operating Room Technique, 14th Edition. For over 50 years, this highly readable text has been trusted to clearly cover the "nuts and bolts" of surgical techniques in a step-by-step format. Expert authors Nancymarie Phillips and Anita Hornacky emphasize the importance of teamwork throughout, with practical strategies and examples of how cooperation among perioperative caregivers contributes to positive patient care outcomes. With a strong focus on the physiologic, psychologic, and spiritual considerations of perioperative patients, this extensively updated new edition gives you the knowledge you need to plan and implement comprehensive, individualized care.

PeriAnesthesia Nursing Core Curriculum

  • 4th Edition
  • March 14, 2020
  • ASPAN + 2 more
  • English
Prepare to succeed on the CPAN® and CAPA® exams with this authoritative guide from ASPAN!　PeriAnesthesia Nursing Core Curriculum, 4th Edition is a comprehensive reference that helps you care for patients before and after anesthesia in all types of settings. Coverage of the full scope of perianesthesia nursing makes it an ideal resource for both inpatient and outpatient care. To keep you current on the many facets of perianesthesia, this edition also describes the newest advances in interventional radiology, robotics, and endoscopy procedures. Written by the American Society of PeriAnesthesia Nurses (ASPAN) and edited by respected perianesthesia nurses Lois Schick and Pam Windle, this book will help you build the skills and expertise you need to excel on your certification exam and in practice.

Current Anesthesia Practice

  • 1st Edition
  • December 17, 2019
  • Sass Elisha + 2 more
  • English
This is the exam review nurse anesthetists have been waiting for! Expertly written by the leading author team of Elisha, Nagelhout, and Heiner, Current Anesthesia Practice: Evaluate Your Knowledge, 1st Edition helps prepare nurse anesthetists for the NCE and CPC exam. It is the ONLY certification review text for nurse anesthetists, making it an invaluable study tool while prepping for the NCE or the new CPC exam. Four comprehensive chapters cover foundational concepts: Airway Management; Applied Pharmacology; Applied Human Physiology, Pathophysiology and Anesthesia Case Management; and Anesthesia Equipment and Technology. Answers to review questions throughout the book are found in the appendix.

Pass CNOR®!

  • 1st Edition
  • July 25, 2019
  • Nancymarie Phillips + 1 more
  • English
Master the CNOR® certification exam with this robust resource! Modeled after Elsevier’s popular Pass! series of certification review books, PASS CNOR®!, 1st Edition delivers the best practice results with innovative learning strategies, targeted, comprehensive coverage, and meticulous accuracy. This invaluable resource presents content in a logical outline format accompanied by helpful illustrations and tables. Fun, engaging learning activities are featured throughout the book, and a companion website features a 325-question practice exam offering you a variety of opportunities to gain valuable test-taking practice!   CNOR® is a registered certification mark of the Competency & Credentialing Institute ("CCI"), and CNOR® certification is offered exclusively by CCI. This publication is prepared by Elsevier, Inc., and neither this publication nor Elsevier Inc. is in any way affiliated with or endorsed by CCI.

Moderate Procedural Sedation and Analgesia

  • 1st Edition
  • March 9, 2019
  • Michael Kost
  • English
Introducing the definitive resource designed for practitioners working in the rapidly expanding area of moderate procedural sedation and analgesia clinical practice. Moderate Procedural Sedation and Analgesia: A Question and Answer Approach focuses on the preprocedural, procedural, and postprocedural care of the moderately sedated patient in a variety of settings. This comprehensive text is designed to provide all the content and tools nurses and other clinicians need to demonstrate competency in moderate sedation and analgesia. Additionally, this user-friendly text is written by well-known sedation/analgesia expert, Michael Kost and recommended by standards of practice from the ANA, AORN, and the American Academy of Pediatrics.

Regional Anesthesia, An Issue of Anesthesiology Clinics

  • 1st Edition
  • Volume 36-3
  • September 14, 2018
  • Nabil Elkassabany + 1 more
  • English
This issue of Anesthesiology Clinics, edited by Dr. Nabil Elkassabany and Dr. Edward Mariano, focuses on Regional Anesthesia, with topics including: Current evidence related to regional analgesia and hip surgery; Updates on billing and coding and establishing an acute pain service in private practice; Establishing a home catheter program for orthopedic surgery in pediatric patients or more broadly: updates on regional anesthesia for pediatric orthopedic surgery; Enhanced recovery after shoulder arthroplasty; Perioperative management of patient on opioid agonist antagonist therapy; Outcome metrics to be considered for regional anesthesia and acute pain medicine; Updates on multimodal analgesia (intransal ketorolac, IV acetmenophen, newer NSAIDS) for orthopedic surgery; Updates in enhanced recovery pathway for knee replacement versus updates outpatient knee replacement; Updates on new technology for regional anesthesia (peripheral nerve stimulators and cryotherapy); and Regional anesthesia and analgesia for the poly trauma patients.

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