A clinical pocket reference provides key information that a healthcare practitioner will require on placement and in practice, selected by experienced teachers/practitioners, clearly written and presented, drawn from a wide range of different sources, packaged in an easily accessible portable format suitable for pocket or mobile devices. This comprehensive new revised and expanded edition of Clinical Pocket Reference Operating Department Practice contains a new key principles section including perioperative roles and responsibilities, effective communication, and assertiveness techniques. The contributors have expanded contents within the anaesthetic, surgical and recovery topics to reflect and support the development of the modern day ODP/ perioperative practitioner and indicative graduate education of the multi-professional preoperative team. New topics includes blood gas analysis, invasive monitoring, difficult airway procedures, body cavities and surgical incisions, role of the surgical first assistant, A-G patient assessment and nutrition and hydration.

About the Author
Nigel Conway, MSc, BA(Hons), PGCE, ODP, Programme Leader, Faculty of Health & Life Sciences, Oxford Brookes University, Swindon, UK; Paul Ong, MSc, BA (Hons), RGN, Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Health and Life Sciences, Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, UK; Nikki White, degrees, MSc, BA(Hons), ODP, Teaching Fellow within Integrated Care, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Surrey, Guildford, UK; Chloe Rich, BSc, ODP, Lecturer, Simulation and Skills Lead, Faculty of Health & Life Sciences, Oxford Brookes University, Swindon, UK


Book Information
ISBN 9781908725103
Author Nigel Conway
Page Count 108
Imprint Clinical Pocket Reference
Publisher Clinical Pocket Reference