Perioperative safety / [edited by] Donna S. Watson.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Overview of perioperative safety -- Essential components for a patient safety strategy -- Initiatives to improve patient safety -- Use of MEDMARX data for the support and development of perioperative medication policy -- Competence, nursing practice, and safe patient care -- Patient safety -- Perioperative safe medication use: a focused review -- Fire prevention in the perioperative setting: perioperative fires can occur everywhere -- Bloodless surgery and patient safety issues -- Perioperative patient safety and procedural sedation -- Incidence of deep venous thrombosis in the surgical patient population and prophylactic measures to reduce occurrence -- Preventive measures for wrong-site, wrong-person, and wrong-procedure error in the perioperative setting -- To count or not to count: a surgical misadventure -- Anesthesia and perioperative safety -- Preventing surgical site infections -- Prevention of positioning injuries -- Normothermia management: prevention of harm from perioperative hypothermia -- Electrosurgery -- Workplace safety -- Workplace safety issues and trends -- Hazards from surgical smoke: decreasing your risk -- Bloodborne pathogens -- Laser risks and preventive measures for the staff -- Preventing back injuries: patient transfer and mobility -- Latex allergy -- Minimizing radiation exposure -- Infectious disease exposure -- Dealing with disruptive behavior in the perioperative setting -- Looking ahead -- Safety in the perioperative setting: vendor support -- Using human factors to balance your operating room.