Infection Prevention in the Perioperative Setting: Zero Tolerance for Infections, An Issue of Perioperative Nursing Clinics

This issue of Perioperative Nursing Clinics, Guest Edited by George Allen, features subject topics such as: OR Attire's Potential for Infection Transmission; Strategies for Preventing Sharps Injuries; Managing Patients with MDROs - Implementing Isolation Procedures in the Perioperative Setting; Anesthesia Care Providers - Identifying/Mitigating Potential for Infection Transmission; Urinary Catheter Insertion and Care in the Perioperative Setting; Hand Hygiene and the Surgical Team; Outlining Effective Strategies for Preventing SSI; Environmental Sanitation - Review of New Technologies; Reprocessing Instruments: Focus on Eye Surgery and TASS (Toxic Anterior Segment Syndrome); Skin Prepping to Maximize Positive Outcomes; Improving the process of supplying instruments from central processing to the OR using the LEAN method; Using Performance Improvement Methodology in Finding the Cause of Increase Biological Cultures in the Operating Room and Solutions for Corrections.

Product details

• Authors: George Allen
• Publisher: Elsevier Health Science
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 09.12.2010
• EAN: 9781437724820
• ISBN: 978-1-4377-2482-0
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 9 mm x 229 mm
• Weight: 302 g
• Series: The Clinics: Nursing
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; MEDICAL / Surgery / General, MEDICAL / Infectious Diseases, MEDICAL / Nursing / Medical & Surgical, Peri-operative care, Surgical nursing, Hospital-acquired infections, Hospital infections