Perioperative education -- Foundations of perioperative patient care standards -- Legal, regulatory, and ethical issues -- The perioperative patient care team and professional credentialing -- The surgical first assistant -- Administration of perioperative patient care services -- The patient: the reason for your existence -- Perioperative pediatrics -- Perioperative geriatrics -- Physical facilities -- Ambulatory surgery centers and alternative surgical locations -- Care of the perioperative environment -- Potential sources of injury to the caregiver and the patient -- Surgical microbiology and antimicrobial therapy -- Principles of aseptic and sterile techniques -- Appropriate attire, surgical hand hygiene, and growning and gloving -- Decontamination and disinfection -- Sterilization -- Surgical instrumentation -- Specialized surgical equipment -- Preoperative preparation of the patient -- Diagnostics, specimens, and oncologic considerations -- Surgical pharmacology -- Anesthesia: techniques and agents -- Coordinated roles of the scrub person and the circulating nurse -- Positioning, prepping, and draping the patient -- Physiologic maintenance and monitoring of the perioperative patient -- Surgical incisions, implants, and wound closure -- Wound healing and hemostasis -- Postoperative patient care -- Potential perioperative complications -- Endoscopy and robotic-assisted surgery -- General surgery -- Gynecologic and obstetric surgery -- Urologic surgery -- Orthopedic surgery -- Neurosurgery of the brain and peripheral nerves -- Spinal surgery -- Ophthalmic surgery -- Plastic and reconstructive surgery -- Otorhinolaryngologic and head and neck surgery -- Thoracic surgery -- Cardiac surgery -- Vascular surgery -- Organ procurement and transplantation.
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