Here is a thorough, pragmatic, hands-on guide to developing cost-effective and high-quality OR policies and procedures. Concise overviews spell out the need and purpose of every OR administrative and managerial task and down-to-earth blueprints take you through the steps necessary to accomplish tasks and maintain quality. The manual includes hundreds of pages of formatted material, proven through use by the leading surgical facilities that provided them ready to put to work.

This pocket guide presents more than 500 surgical procedures! State-of-the-art revisions familiarize the reader with new standards of excellence for care of the surgical patient in the perioperative environment. For each procedure, you’ll find a definition, discussion, description of the surgery, preparation of the patient, skin preparation, draping technique, instrumentation, supplies, and special notes pertinent to that surgery.

This policy and procedure book is a valuable resource for new or existing cardiac surgery programs. It provides support for each procedure in the cardiac surgery environment to include standards of practice, risk management, staffing competencies, and quality indicators to optimize care of the cardiovascular surgery patient. The policy manual is based upon AORN standards and meets JCAHO standards for the operating room environment.