Managing perioperative care : influences on surgery and nursing

This volume aims to encourage, and provide guidelines for, those interested in entering perioperative nursing.

It discusses the expectations of surgeons and anaesthetists towards nurses in the theatre.

Topics covered include: teamwork involved in the theatre; the legal aspects of theatre nursing; organ donation; dealing with intraoperative death; the theatre nurse's contribution to minimal access and day surgery; and how the nurse's role might be developed and extended in theatre.