The Complete Recovery Room Book

The care a patient receives immediately after surgery is crucial to minimizing the risk of complications, but many hospitals still do not have formally organized recovery rooms. Now in its fourth edition, this book has established itself as the definitive guide on how to set up, equip, staff, and administer this 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, including new material on risk management, administration and quality control; expanded sections on anaesthetic practice and infection prevention; and incorporating the recent developments in pain control, nausea and vomiting, care of children, pregnancy, and care of the cardiac patient.

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