Nursing Care For perioperative patients Flashcards
A sterile environment where surgeries are performed by medical professionals using specializes surgical equipments
Operating Room
A type of surgery which aims to restore function or appearance which have been lost or reduced
Constructive surgery
A type of surgery that replaces malfunctioning structures
Transplant
A type of surgery that removes a diseases body part
Ablative surgery
A type of surgry done to confirm a diagnosis or to establish one
Diagnostic surgery
Surgery performed immediately, to preserve function or life
Emergency
Surgery performed when surgery is seen as the preferred type of treatment
Elective
High risk, complicated, prolonged, large blood loss and many more complication, can pose a threat to life
Major surgery
Extensive surgery beyond the area obviously involved, is directed at finsing the root cause.
Radical
Surgical risks of medications, increased bleeding
Anticoagulants
Surgical risks, increased sesation
Tranquilizers
What is the goal in the pre-operative phase
For the patient to be in the bes physical and emotional stare for surgry
In the preoperative anasthesia evaluation, what corresponds to ASA IV
A patient with severe systemic disease that is a constant threat to life
During preoperative teaching, it is important to _____ and ____ to the patient and family
Intruct and answer questions
The patient should be debfriefed on what the OR should feel like, which are
Cold temperature, and music
This member of the team is the one that assumes all responsibility for all judgement and medical acts
Operating Surgeon
As a part of the surgical team, they are the ones that handle equipment and sterility
Scrub Nurse
In the OR, during an operation, it is best to stay aleast _ foot away from the sterile field at all times
1 foot
OR temperature should be maintained at what?
24 degrees celsius
This protective attire prevents droplets from being expelled to the surgical environment, to be worn kver the nose and mouth
Face mask
These are one piece, or two piece suits, should be lint-free, cool, and confortable
Scrub suits
An artificially induced state of partial or total loss of of sensation with ir without loss if concsiousness
Anesthesia
Anasthetic technique not commonly used, since anastheologists is required, inserted from 90 to 15 degrees into the dural sac, commonly used for pediaSx or adult. Is a variation of epidural
Caudal
They are part of the surgical team, they work in front and together with the operating surgeon.
Assisting surgeon
Why is temperature in the OR kept relatively cool?
To deter bacterial growth.
If patient’s buttocks needs to be exposed and elevated.what must be done?
Put the patient in a jackknife postion
Opend and steralize surgical equipment must be used ____ before surgery
1 hour
This serves as a detailed documentation as to what and which sterile equipment were used during surgery.
Instrument and sponge count form
Physical examination is done to acquire a ____ for comparison during and after surgery
Basline information
A surgical site design where there is a procedure room and adjacent to a sub sterile area where scrub sins and autoclaves are located
Restricted area
