Perioperative Nursing

What it covers

• How surgery is classified, and how to read its name
• Surgical risk and the ASA physical status
• Informed consent, the drugs you hold and the drugs you never stop
• Fasting, skin prep and the pre-operative checklist
• Operating-room zones, sterile technique and the surgical counts
• Positioning and the nerve each position threatens
• Anesthesia route by route, the sedation continuum, stage by stage
• Malignant hyperthermia
• PACU, the Aldrete score, the surgical wound class and every post-operative complication by the day it appears