General Surgery Risk Reduction

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Coventry, Brendon J. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: London : Springer London : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Series: Surgery: Complications, Risks and Consequences
• Subjects: Medicine.; Surgery.; Medicine & Public Health.

Written by internationally acclaimed specialists, General Surgery Risk Reduction expands on complications associated with surgery and how to reduce them, the availability of relevant information and the rapid advancements of surgical technology. Chapters provide pertinent and concise procedure descr...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction
• 2. General Peri-operative Complications
• 3. Surgical Infection
• 4. Pre-Operative Risk Assessment and Intra-Operative Monitoring
• 5. Anaesthesia Complications
• 6. Intensive Care Complications
• 7. Acute Peri-Operative Pain: Mechanisms and Management
• 8. Systems, Safety and Quality – Harm, Error and Litigation
• 9. Risk Management and Human Factors
• 10. Medico-Legal Risk Management in Surgery
• 11. Evaluation of Surgical Safety and Efficacy
• 12. Accreditation, Credentialing, Scope of Practice and Outcome Evaluation.