Operating department practice is experiencing its biggest revolution of professional identity since the validation of the BSc curriculum in 2011. The recent COVID-19 pandemic response of 202021 was groundbreaking for showcasing the transferable knowledge and skills of the ODP profession within critical care surge areas: the authors would like to stimulate the continuation of this positive momentum. This updated resource fully supports the ODP learner through the degree curriculum, including higher degree apprenticeship standards, and has been updated to align with the new HCPC Standards of Proficiency for ODP (2023). New content includes vital areas of knowledge and skills for patients with enhanced/critical care requirements. It is a valuable resource for perioperative CPD and maintaining best practice via rapid access to essential knowledge. New topics include surgical instrumentation, airway management and adjuncts, regional anaesthesia techniques, commonly used anaesthetic drugs and neurovascular observations. All content, and reference to the NODPO within this resource is fully transferable to all registrants or professionals working within perioperative practice and performing the same roles.
Clinical Pocket Reference Operating Department Practice with Critical Care 4th edition
Introduction
1. Key principles
1.1 Patient safety
1.2 Informed consent
1.3 Communication and handover
1.4 Drug calculations
2. Anaesthesia
2.1 Checklist for anaesthetic equipment
2.2 Medical gases
2.3 American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA, 2014)
grading
2.4 Pre-operative fasting
2.5 Regional anaesthesia anaesthesia and local infiltration
2.6 Commonly used anaesthetic drugs
2.7 Endotracheal tubes (ETTs)
2.8 Supraglottic airway devices (SADs)
2.9 Airway management and adjuncts
2.10 Patient monitoring
2.11 Patient warming
2.12 Diffi cult airway management
2.13 Rapid sequence induction (RSI)
3. Surgery
3.1 Surgical instruments
3.2 Surgical hand-washing procedure
3.3 Patient positioning
3.4 Surgical site classification, infection and wound
healing
3.5 Surgical counts
3.6 Wound closure
3.7 Wound dressings and drains
3.8 Handling specimens
3.9 Urinary catheterization
3.10 Tourniquets
4. Post-anaesthesia care
4.1 ABCDEFG assessment
4.2 Normal physiological values and escalation
4.3 Non-invasive blood pressure monitoring
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4.4 Invasive pressure monitoring
4.5 Neurology
4.6 Oxygen administration
4.7 Blood products and transfusion
4.8 Blood gases
4.9 Fluid balance and urine output
4.10 Acute pain assessment and management
4.11 Post-operative nausea and vomiting (PONV)
4.12 Neurovascular observations
5. Emergencies
5.1 Laryngospasm
5.2 Bronchospasm
5.3 Anaphylaxis
5.4 Malignant hyperth
5.5 Local anaesthetic toxicity
5.6 Major haemorrhage
5.7 Inadequate neuromuscular blockade reversal
5.8 Shock
5.9 Sepsis (adult)
5.10 Cardiac arrest
5.11 Emergency drugs
6. Critical care
6.1 Intra-/inter-hospital transfer
6.2 Commonly used drugs in critical care
6.3 A-E approach of the critical
care patient
6.4 Ventilation modes in critical care
6.5 Intubation in the critical care environment
6.6 Bronchoscopy and percutaneous tracheostomy
Abbreviations
Acknowledgments, further reading and common surgical terminology (accessed via QR code)
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