" skipper, " coordinating patient care and case flow of the surgical suite. This role gives nurses autonomy and the opportunity to work with a multidisciplinary team. Other perioperative nurse roles are: certified registered nurse first assistant (CRNFA), specialty service leader, and perioperative nurse specialist. With perioperative nursing, the nursing process is used to assess, plan, and im...

BACKGROUND The perioperative management of anticoagulation in patients who are having implantation of a pacemaker or implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) is a common clinical problem in which best clinical practise is not established. METHODS We performed a systematic review of the literature to assess the safety (pocket hematoma risk) and efficacy (thromboembolism risk) of different ...

objective: to investigate the decrease in hemoglobin concentration and hematocrit during elective surgery. methods: this was a prospective study being performed in nemazee hospital of shiraz university of medical sciences. we included a total of 50 american society of anesthesiology (asa) i and ii patients undergoing elective minor surgeries. perioperative fluid administration was performed for...

The optimal timing of the preanesthesia evaluation varies with the patient's comorbidities. As anesthesiologists assume a broader role in perioperative care, there may be opportunities to provide additional patient management beyond historical routine anesthesia services. This study was thus undertaken to survey our institutional perioperative clinicians regarding their perceptions of patient m...

Patient positioning is an integral part of perioperative care and yet it is an area of patient care which can easily be compromised as staff try to accommodate surgeons and work through busy operating lists. Inadequate padding and incorrect positioning can cause serious and long term injury and disability, and can result in litigation against perioperative nurses and ODPs.