Perioperative Services: Administration, Resource Management, and Patient Care provides detailed information for improving your operating room, making it more economical, efficient, and compliant. You'll get fast access to valuable tools and quality support materials, such as policies and procedures, legal forms, guidelines, job descriptions, patient documentation, and more to help you formulate the best approaches to the fast-changing health care marketplace. With Perioperative Services, you'll have: Standards and guidelines for providing efficient and cost-effective care Complete job descriptions for a wide selection of perioperative care professions Hundreds of ready-to-use forms, checklists, and tools that help streamline procedures Expert analysis on hot topics, such as Infection Control, Disaster Planning, Research Utilization, New Technology Purchasing, and more Perioperative Services provides expert policies, procedures, forms, guidelines, and more, help you: Survive the accreditation process Protect your facility from lawsuits and liability Prepare for renovation Tackle budgeting responsibilities Deal with staffing and personnel issues Ensure quality patient care and management Keep pace with advances in infection control And much more! Perioperative Services has been updated to include: Retrospective, four past and current editors of this publication reflect on the changes, challenges, and opportunities in the field of perioperative services since 2000 and postulate on what the future may hold. Staffing, incorporates recent research and changes in staffing practices in Perioperative Services Departments and includes an appendix that discusses the benefits of implementing a Scrub fellowship. Evidence-Based Practice, examines popular EBP models, presents a step-by-step view of the EBP process, and delves into staff culture to determine obstacles to EBP implementation and potential solutions. Competence in Perioperative Nursing, expands on the subject with an insightful section on the intertwined nature of competence, subspeciality education, and professional development. Preventing Retained Surgical Items, focuses on surgical team interaction, obstacles to correct counts, and the danger of short cuts in OR nursing. Communication Between OR Personnel and the Radiologist, written from the radiologistand’s perspective, discusses the importance of identifying and reducing the incidence of retained surgical items.

Offering a concise yet comprehensive review of current practices in surgery and patient safety, Handbook of Perioperative and Procedural Patient Safety is an up-to date, practical resource for practicing surgeons, anesthesiologists, surgical nurses, hospital administrators, and surgical office staff. Edited by Drs. Juan A. Sanchez and Robert S. D. Higgins and authored by expert contributors from Johns Hopkins, it provides an expansive look at the scope of the problem, causes of error, minimizing errors, surgical suite and surgical team design, patient experience, and other related topics. - Presents the knowledge and experience of a multidisciplinary team from Johns Hopkins University, which created the Comprehensive Unit-based Safety Program (CUSP), an approach for improving safety culture and engaging frontline clinicians to identify and mitigate defects in care delivery. - Discusses the scope and prevalence of perioperative harm, causes of error in healthcare, and perioperative never events. - Covers safe practices, cognitive workload and fatigue, and the effects of noise in the OR. - Includes several team-based chapters such as the dynamics of surgical teams, safer perioperative team communication, and the culture of safety. - Consolidates today's available information and guidance into a single, convenient resource.

Manual of Perioperative Care is a comprehensive manual of principles of care designed to support the clinical practice of perioperative practitioners, whether they are nurses or operating department practitioners. This book meets the needs of those studying perioperative practice as well as those who would like an up-to-date comprehensive reference on their bookshelf. It covers the fundamentals of perioperative practice, placing them within the wider context of modern surgical care. With a practical, accessible focus, aided by full colour illustrations, this book follows the journey that the patient makes through their surgical care, with sections on: The foundation for safe and effective perioperative care Infection prevention and control Patient safety and managing risks Different patient care groups Approaches to surgery This book is essential reading for all students on perioperative courses, as well as newly qualified perioperative nurses and operating department practitioners.

Surgical services carry some of the highest risks and rewards of all healthcare specialties. They also present specific challenges. Those unfamiliar with the surgical suite’s inner workings may struggle to lead and manage this complex and often isolated department. The Healthcare Executive’s Guide to Navigating the Surgical Suite: A Roadmap to the OR and Perioperative Services provides experienced and novice healthcare leaders with the information, leadership structures, and practical strategies needed to successfully oversee both patient outcomes and balance sheets. This book covers contemporary market realities, business challenges, labor requirements, and clinical and operational complexities as it points leaders toward the most pressing issues in strategic surgical services leadership.

Perioperative Medicine uses a concise, highly practical, bulleted format designed to ensure rapid comprehension of key concepts and reinforce the reader's understanding of complex topics in perioperative medicine. It contains authoritative, up-to-date coverage of the most essential concepts in perioperative care from preoperative risk assessment to postoperative follow-up. The Editor and his contributors use their expert insight and experience to provide an in-depth review of comorbid conditions, patient and surgery-specific risk assessment, and common postoperative complications. This new book reviews recent developments in the field, including published guidelines, and emphasizes an evidence-based, cost-effective approach designed to ensure quality, patient safety, and optimal outcomes. It is intended for use by hospitalists, general internists and subspecialists as well as anesthesiologists, surgeons, and residents in training who are caring for patients before and after surgery.

Aligned to the 2020 ACORN Standards Engaging patient scenarios woven through the text, include patient histories and indications for surgery Information on managing surgery during pandemics, including COVID 19 Details of the extended roles available in perioperative practice

Essential Surgery is part of a nine volume series for Disease Control Priorities which focuses on health interventions intended to reduce morbidity and mortality. The Essential Surgery volume focuses on four key aspects including global financial responsibility, emergency procedures, essential services organization and cost analysis.