TEXTBOOK OF SURGICAL NURSING

By ISABELLA DAVIS

1 INTRODUCTION TO THE SURGICAL PATIENT 2 MANAGING THE SURGICAL WARD 3 SURGICAL CARE MODELS 4 PRE-?OPERATIVE ASSESSMENTS AND PREPARATION 5 PRE-?OPERATIVE OPTIMIZATION 6 TRANSFER TO OTHER DEPARTMENTS OR THEATRE 7 INTRA-?OPERATIVE CARE 8 WARD POST-?OPERATIVE CARE 9 PAIN MANAGEMENT 10 NUTRITION AND HYDRATION 11 TRANSFUSION OF BLOOD PRODUCTS 12 WOUND CARE 13 SKIN ASSESSMENT 14 INFECTION: PREVENTION, CONTROL, AND TREATMENT 15 POST-?OPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS 16 SURGICAL NURSING PROCEDURES 17 OPHTHALMOLOGY 18 UPPER GASTROINTESTINAL AND HEPATOBILIARY SURGERY 19 COLORECTAL AND LOWER GASTROINTESTINAL SURGERY 20 TRAUMA AND ORTHOPAEDICS 21 VASCULAR SURGERY 22 UROLOGY AND RENAL SURGERY 23 NEUROLOGICAL AND SPINAL SURGERY 24 BURNS AND PLASTIC SURGERY CONTENTS CONTENTS 25 THORACIC SURGERY 26 CARDIAC SURGERY 27 BREAST SURGERY 28 GYNAECOLOGICAL SURGERY INTRODUCTION TO THE SURGICAL PATIENT THE SURGICAL PATIENT THE SURGICAL TEAM THE ROLE OF THE SURGICAL NURSE CLASSIFICATION OF SURGERY TERMINOLOGY IN SURGERY BASIC ANATOMY OF THE CHEST BASIC ANATOMY OF THE ABDOMEN BASIC ANATOMY OF THE UPPER LIMB BASIC ANATOMY OF THE LOWER LIMB BASIC ANATOMY OF THE HEAD AND NECK BASIC ANATOMY OF THE GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT BASIC ANATOMY OF THE VASCULAR SYSTEM BASIC ANATOMY OF THE GENITO-?URINARY SYSTEM CHAPTER