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Figure 8.2 A day-of-admission unit facility. Figure 8.3 A day-of-admission unit. Inpatient Surgery and Day of Admission The majority of inpatients arrive in the hospital on the day of surgery…

Ionising radiation risks Ionising radiation can cause biological damage to tissues. Damage is at a cellular level and can be minor and imperceptible, posing no long-term risk. It can also…

From Royal College of Anaesthetists (2009), British Anaesthetic and Recovery Nursing Association (2005) and ASPAN (2010a). The evidence supporting PACU staffing numbers is limited and in the majority of incidences,…

Extensive work has also been undertaken by the Oxford Pain Research Group www.medicine.ox.ac.uk/bandolier/painres/PRintro.html) and the Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists and Faculty of Pain Medicine (ANZCA 2010) who…

Communication with Young People Adolescence defined by the WHO acknowledged the transitional nature of this life stage and the inherent variation between biological and emotional maturity and socio-cultural contexts (RCN…

Traditionally, anaesthesia is viewed as being in four stages and the object is to obtain the third stage as quickly and smoothly as possible: Stage 1 – Disordered consciousness. This…

These patients require close monitoring in the post-anaesthetic care unit (PACU) as they can collapse due to reperfusion injury following reduction of the intussusception. Foreign body in the airway Small…

Oesophageal Atresia The most common configuration of this condition is oesophageal atresia with distal tracheoesophageal fistula (85%) as shown in Figure 25.2. If not identified on ultrasound examinations during pregnancy…

Cleaning, as the first step in both the definition and most processes, is widely accepted as the removal of contamination from an item to the extent necessary for its further…