The Complete Recovery Room Book

Hatfield, A.; Tronson, M.

ISBN 10: 0192632183 / ISBN 13: 9780192632180

Published by Oxford University Press, 2001

About this Item

Ex-library paperback with worn and creased covers. Library stamps and labels. The pages are clean and tightly bound.

Seller Inventory # 191321

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Complete Recovery Room Book
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication Date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0192632183
• ISBN 13: 9780192632180
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition: 3rd Edition
• Condition: Good
• Book Type: Ex-Library
• Seller catalogs:
  • Health & Medicine

About this title

Synopsis

The care that a patient receives in the first hours after surgery are crucial to minimising the risk of complications such as heart attacks, pneumonia, and blood clots. In spite of this, many hospitals still do not have formally organised recovery rooms. The Complete Recovery Room Book has established itself as the definitive guide on how to establish, equip, staff, and administer this acute care unit. The five years since completion of the previous edition have seen many changes in anaesthetic and surgical techniques, which, in some cases, enable patients to have their operation and be discharged, whether on the same day, or the day after their surgery. Pre-assessment clinics have reduced the incidence of unfit patients presenting for surgery, and this brings fewer unexpected problems to the recovery room. Significant advances from research into pain mechanisms have allowed a better understanding of analgesics and more efficient pain control. Alongside these improvements though, other dangers have emerged, such as the increased risk of diseases like HIV or hepatitis being transmitted, and just recently, latex allergy.

The third edition of this book has been heavily revised in order to take account of all these changes and medical advances, though provides an essential, practical source of reference that should be read by all anaesthetists, surgeons, recovery room nurses, and anyone involved in providing postoperative care.

About the Author

Anthea Hatfield is at Armed Forces Hospital, Riyadh. Michael Tronson is at Box Hill Hospital, Melbourne.