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Minor Surgery at a Glance
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Newark :
John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated,
2017.
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| Colección: | New York Academy of Sciences Ser.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contributors
- Preface
- Part 1 Avoiding and managing problems: principles of safe surgery
- 1 Consent
- The nature of consent
- How detailed should information be?
- What is material risk?
- The adult patient
- The child patient
- The patient with cognitive impairment or intellectual disability
- Seeking medico-legal advice
- 2 Physical environment
- Suitable settings for minor surgery
- Facilities required
- 3 Set-up
- Patient positioning
- Surgical safety
- Preparation of the surgical site
- 4 Instruments
- Scissors
- Grasping forceps
- Clips
- Tissue holders
- Needle holder
- Retractors
- 5 Infection control and prevention
- Infection prevention
- Types of pathogens
- Minor surgery and infection
- 6 Human factors
- What are human factors?
- Safe surgery initiatives
- Asking for help
- 7 Focused history
- Focused history for minor surgery
- Past medical history
- Drug history
- Social history
- Family history
- Systems review and summary
- Patient-centred care
- Day surgery
- 8 Specimen processing and reporting
- Specimen handling and labelling
- Tissue preservation
- Processing and staining of tissue
- The frozen section technique (intraoperative consultation)
- Stage of disease
- The surgical pathology report
- 9 Follow-up
- Introduction
- Dressings
- Analgesia
- Complications
- Follow-up plan
- Information for GP letter
- 10 Anaphylaxis
- Anaphylaxis
- Recognition of anaphylaxis
- Medical interventions for anaphylaxis
- Surgical interventions for anaphylaxis
- Follow-up for anaphylaxis
- 11 Emergencies and resuscitation
- Advanced life support algorithm
- 12 Audit and practice
- Clinical governance
- Audit
- 13 Communication and conflict resolution
- Communication skills
- Conflict resolution
- Part 2 Basic pain control and anaesthesia
- 14 Local anaesthesia
- What is a local anaesthetic?
- Safety considerations
- Adrenaline
- 15 Sedation
- Sedation and analgesia
- Levels of sedation and analgesia
- 4 P's of safe sedation
- Patient
- Procedure
- Provider
- Place
- Monitoring the level of sedation
- Complications of sedation
- Reversal of sedation (if required)
- Discharge
- 16 General and regional anaesthesia
- Introduction
- General anaesthesia
- Regional anaesthesia
- Spinal anaesthesia
- Epidural anaesthesia
- Peripheral nerve blocks
- Part 3 Core surgical knowledge
- 17 Skin incisions
- Scalpels
- Holding the scalpel to make an incision
- Basic principles for incision
- Minor surgical incisions
- Techniques for a good scar
- Electrodissection to incise
- 18 Principles of wound closure
- Plan the skin incision
- Choosing the suture size
- Choosing the suture material
- Suture placement
- Technique for simple interrupted sutures
- When should I use a different suturing technique?
- Removing sutures
- Anaesthesia
- 19 Sutures
- Introduction
- Properties of the ideal suture material
- Types of suture material