Perioperative Care
The 3 consent forms that must be signed prior to surgery.
Informed Consent (Procedure)
Anesthesia Consent
Blood Transfusion Consent
Whatever the patient says it is.
What is Pain
This test is also known as a CAT Scan
What is computed tomography?
(FYI: CT scans are continuous radiographs that show multi dimensional images of the area scanned. Sometimes these tests are done with and/ or without contrast. This test has more radiation exposure than an x-ray).
Lysis
What is removal of tissue?
This religions does not permit blood transfusions, unless autologous.
What is Jehovah's Witness?
Call the surgeon for re-teaching.
This type of pain usually accompanies an amputation.
What is phantom pain?
This test uses imaging to look primarily at soft tissues of the body.
What is an MRI? (Magnetic Resonance Imagining).
-ectomy
What is removal of tissue, organs or parts of an organ?
An again patient is as risk for certain problems after surgical procedures such as:
What is pneumonia, atelectasis, what is skin breakdown due to positioning, acute kidney failure.
This is a required step immediately prior to surgical incision.
What is a surgical time out?
There are several ways to assess pain. The assessment tools used include:
What are Numeric Scale, Color Scale, Faces Scale, FLACC scale?
-ostomy
What is to make an opening? Usually ostomies are associated with stomas.
What is Chinese?
Immediately POST-OP the primary assessment for the nurse is
What is airway management?
The post-operative patient states she is concerned about becoming addicted to pain medication. To help manage her concerns we will reinfoce teaching the following:
What is:
1. Pain control is an important part of healing and recovery
2. Take medications as prescribed.
3. Use a pain scale to monitor your pain (assess pain before and after pain meds)
4. Evaluate for history of addiction
5. Manage pain before it becomes too severe.
Prior to the MRI, these questions must be asked of the patient.
Do you have any metal in your body? Pacemaker? Metal implants from surgery? Do you work with metal or metal shavings such as in a machine shop? Are you claustrophobic?
Taking a specimen during a surgery for further testing
What is a biopsy?
These diasease processes increase the risk of post op surgical complications
What is diabetes, PVD, history of smoking, history of DVT, obesity, COPD
These are some obvious signs of pain:
What is: patient c/o pain, withdrawal from touch, HTN, tachycardia, facial grimace.
This is a genetic condition that leads to serious intraoperative issues
What is Malignant Hyperthermia?