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    • Instrumentation for the Operating Room

      • 8th Edition
      • March 8, 2011
      • Shirley M. Tighe
      • English
      • eBook
        9 7 8 0 3 2 3 2 4 2 4 2 4
      With more than 1,000 photographs of surgical instruments and instrument tips in the book and online, Instrumentation for the Operating Room: A Photographic Manual, 8th Edition, shows more illustrations than any other manual. Instruments are organized by surgical specialty, beginning with basic sets and progressing to more advanced sets. Instructions on preparation, sterilization, and setup, as well as clear explanations for common surgical procedures can be found throughout the book. Within each chapter, instruments are commonly featured individually and as parts of sets, often showing close-up, individual tips. Written by an experienced perioperative nurse, Shirley Tighe, this edition includes new photographs of the operating room and of robotic and micro-surgical instruments, plus a companion Evolve website with additional photographs, flashcards, and review questions.

    • Robotic Surgery, An Issue of Perioperative Nursing Clinics

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 6-3
      • October 3, 2011
      • John Zender
      • English
      • Hardback
        9 7 8 1 4 5 5 7 0 4 8 6 6
      This issue of Perioperative Nursing Clinics will focus on Robotic Surgery. Article topics will include robotic cardiac surgery, robotic urologic surgery, anesthesia with robotic surgery, robotic surgery in a rural hospital, patient positioning, keeping pace with robotic technology, and educational competencies for robotic surgery.

    • Perioperative Safety

      • 1st Edition
      • March 8, 2010
      • Donna S. Watson
      • English
      • Paperback
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      • eBook
        9 7 8 0 3 2 3 0 8 1 6 0 3
      The only book devoted to this increasingly important issue, Perioperative Safety helps you reduce risk in a setting where even small errors can lead to life-threatening complications. Expert author Donna Watson addresses essential safety principles and concepts, covering patient safety with topics such as the latest safety strategies and initiatives, perioperative safe medication use, preventing infections, anesthesia safety, normothermia management, and electrosurgery. Coverage of staff and workplace safety helps you minimize risk with bloodborne pathogens, latex allergy, the use of lasers, and radiation exposure. Case studies show the application of safety concepts in real-world situations.

    • Surgical Instruments, An Issue of Perioperative Nursing Clinics

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 5-1
      • March 9, 2010
      • Kathleen B. Gaberson
      • English
      • Hardback
        9 7 8 1 4 3 7 7 1 8 5 7 7
      This issue of Perioperative Nursing Clinics, Guest Edited by Katherine Gaberson, PhD, RN, CNOR, on the topic of Surgical Instruments will include the following article topics: History of Surgical Instruments; Nursing Role in Creating New Instruments; Best Practices Related to Instrument Counts; Innovations in Instrument Care; Evidence Base for Hands-Free Techniques; Evidence Base for Sharps Design to Prevent Injury; Robotic Surgery Instrumentation; Instrument Readiness as a Patient Safety Issue; Cost Analysis of Outsourcing Instrument Repair and Refurbishing; Innovative Techniques for teaching Instrumentation; Best Practices for Reducing Instrument Loss; Providing Surgical Instruments for Medical Missions; and Humor Involving Surgical Instruments.

    • Sterilization and Disinfection for the Perioperative Nurse, An Issue of Perioperative Nursing Clinics

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 5-3
      • September 28, 2010
      • Terrie Goodman-Kent
      • English
      • Hardback
        9 7 8 1 4 3 7 7 2 4 8 1 3
      This issue of Perioperative Nursing Clinics, Guest Edited by Terri Goodman-Kent, features subject topics such as: high temperature, low temperature sterilization; flash sterilization; Environmental Management; Monitoring, Packaging, Education in Sterilization and Disinfection; Reprocessing of Single Use Devices.

    • Surgical Instruments

      • 4th Edition
      • October 1, 2010
      • Maryann Papanier Wells
      • English
      • Spiral-bound
        9 7 8 1 4 3 7 7 2 2 4 9 9
      • eBook
        9 7 8 1 4 3 7 7 2 0 1 9 8
      Make sure you can identify the many different types of surgical instruments! Surgical Instruments: A Pocket Guide, 4th Edition is a quick "go-to" source for information on over 160 of the most commonly used surgical instruments. Each two-page spread features full-color photos of an instrument and its tip (if applicable), and then describes how it is used, its common variations, and any alternative names. Written by Maryann Papanier Wells, this compact, durable reference is easy to keep with you at all times. With instruments alphabetized within each major instrument class, locating specific information has never been easier!

    • Radiology, An Issue of Perioperative Nursing Clinics

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 5-2
      • June 29, 2010
      • Kathleen A. Gross
      • English
      • Hardback
        9 7 8 1 4 3 7 7 1 8 5 8 4
      This issue of Perioperative Nursing Clinics, Guest Edited by Kathleen Gross, MSN, RN, BVC, CRN, on the topic of Radiology will include the following article topics: Contrast Media Nephropathy; Vein Ablation/Sclerothera... Radiation Exposure; Embolic and Sclerotherapy Agents; CO2 Contrast; Sepsis in the Perioperative/Radiol... Area; Local Anesthetics Used in Perioperative Areas; Hybrid IR; Uterine Artery Embolization; Periprocedural Hemostasis Management; Intraoperative MRI; Vertebral Augmentation: Vertebroplasty and Kyphoplasty; and IVC Filters.

    • Infection Prevention in the Perioperative Setting: Zero Tolerance for Infections, An Issue of Perioperative Nursing Clinics

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 5-4
      • December 9, 2010
      • George Allen
      • English
      • Hardback
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      • eBook
        9 7 8 1 4 5 5 7 0 0 5 4 7
      This issue of Perioperative Nursing Clinics, Guest Edited by George Allen, features subject topics such as: OR Attire's Potential for Infection Transmission; Strategies for Preventing Sharps Injuries; Managing Patients with MDROs – Implementing Isolation Procedures in the Perioperative Setting; Anesthesia Care Providers – Identifying/Mitigati... Potential for Infection Transmission; Urinary Catheter Insertion and Care in the Perioperative Setting; Hand Hygiene and the Surgical Team; Outlining Effective Strategies for Preventing SSI; Environmental Sanitation – Review of New Technologies; Reprocessing Instruments: Focus on Eye Surgery and TASS (Toxic Anterior Segment Syndrome); Skin Prepping to Maximize Positive Outcomes; Improving the process of supplying instruments from central processing to the OR using the LEAN method; Using Performance Improvement Methodology in Finding the Cause of Increase Biological Cultures in the Operating Room and Solutions for Corrections.

    • Pain, Analgesia and Anesthesia, An Issue of Perioperative Nursing Clinics

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 4-4
      • December 29, 2009
      • Valerie Girard-Powell
      • English
      • Hardback
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      This issue of Perioperative Nursing Clinics, titled Pain, Analgesia and Anesthesia, which was Guest Edited by Valerie Girard-Powell, RN, will include the following topics: Behavioral Approaches to Pain Management; The Diagnostic Workup of Patients with Neuropathic Pain; Interventional Approaches to Pain Management; Myofascial Pain Trigger Points; Nonopioid Analgesics; Topical Analgesics; Documentation and Potential Tools in Long Term Opioid Therapy for Pain; Critical Monitoring Issues for Surgery Performed in a Non-hospital Setting; Anesthesia for Gastrointestinal Endoscopic Procedures; Anesthesiology and Gastroenterology; Interventional Radiology and Anesthesia; and Fee for Service Payments: Affect on Patient Care, Operating Room Procedures and Anesthesia Services.

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