The Complete Recovery Room Book / Edition 4

by Anthea Hatfield, Michael Tronson

Overview

The care that a patient receives in the first hours after surgery is crucial to minimizing the risk of complications such as heart attacks, pneumonia, and blood clots. As the patient awakes from their drug-induced coma, it takes time for them to metabolize and excrete these drugs, during which period they remain unable to care for themselves, and at increased risk of harm. The recovery room staff must manage both comatose and physiologically unstable patients, and deal with the immediate post-operative care of surgical patients.

The fifth edition of this popular book provides nurses, surgeons and anaesthetists with clear guidance on how to manage day-to-day problems and how to make difficult decisions. Previous editions of this book have established it as the definitive guide to setting-up, equipping, staffing, and administering an acute care unit. It includes basic science such as physiology and pharmacology, specific symptoms including pain and vomiting, and has chapters devoted to the unique post-operative needs of individual types of surgery.

This new edition brings this important text up to date and new drugs and techniques for monitoring are described. A new section looks ahead to the future development and design of recovery rooms and how they can contribute to patient well being.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780199232680
Publisher:	Oxford University Press, USA
Publication date:	02/15/2009
Edition description:	Older Edition
Pages:	500
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.20(h) x 1.50(d)

About the Author

Anthea Hatfield, Consultant Anaesthetist, Wairarapa Hospital, Masterton, New Zealand

Dr Hatfield is an anaesthetist with an interest in operating theatre safety and the outcomes for patients at their most vulnerable time, directly after they have been anaesthetised and are in the recovery room. She is works at Wairarapa Hospital in Masterton, New Zealand.

Table of Contents

1. Recovery room routines
2. Recovery room procedures
3. Design of recovery room
4. Monitoring and equipment
5. Pain
6. Postoperative pain
7. Analgesics
8. Postoperative nausea and vomiting
9. Regional analgesia
10. Special problems
11. Pharmacology
12. Mothers and babies
13. Paediatrics
14. The elderly patient
15. Respiratory physiology
16. The respiratory system
17. Cardiovascular physiology
18. Cardiovascular disease
19. Cardiopulmonary resuscitation
20. Shock
21. Crisis management
22. The kidney
23. Fluid balance
24. Metabolism
25. Chronic disorders
26. The bleeding patient
27. Surgical issues
28. Infection control
29. Working with people
30. Working with facts
Appendix 1: Trolley set-ups
Appendix 2: Infusions
Appendix 3: Useful data
Glossary
Abbreviations

Editorial Reviews

Reviewer: Kathleen M. Woodruff, DNP, RN, ANP-BC(USC School of Social Work)
Description: This comprehensive book provides clear guidance on how to manage the postoperative care of surgical patients. The fifth edition of a book that was originally published in 1992, this update includes the most current medications and monitoring techniques for managing postsurgical patients.
Purpose: The purpose is to provide a guidebook for practitioners managing the day-to-day problems that occur in recovery rooms. It provides answers to some of the most common recovery room questions and assists with complicated decision making. The author does an excellent job of addressing all of these objectives.
Audience: The audience includes nurses, surgeons, and anesthetists — in other words — basically all clinical providers who care for postsurgical patients. The author has consistently provided an excellent resource for use daily in the recovery room. Each edition has built on the previous one to provide the most current, evidence-based information. The author is a well-established expert in the field.
Features: The book is constructed of standalone chapters focused on specific patient populations or recovery room problems. Each chapter includes the basic science behind the topic, then proceeds with the practical sections. A clear understanding of the pathophysiology and pharmacology makes it easier to understand the clinical disorders and anticipated potential problems.
Assessment: This update is a necessary resource for all recovery room practitioners. It is useful in teaching institutions as well as more rural hospitals. This edition ensures that readers have the most current, evidence-based information available.

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