Perioperative Care
Use this guide to find information resources about perioperative care including books, reports and journal articles.
Last updated:
17/09/2024
Key Resources
Association for Perioperative Practice (2022) Standards and guidance
British Anaesthetic and Recovery Nurses Association (no date) Clinical Practice.
Guideline for perioperative care for people with diabetes mellitus undergoing elective and emergency surgery. London: CPOC.
NHS England (2023) National Safety Standards for Invasive Procedures (NatSSIPs)
National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (2020) Perioperative care in adults. NICE guideline [NG180].
Please check that guidance is applicable for your country. NICE guidance is officially England and Wales only.
Royal College of Anaesthetists: Guidance and resources
We would like to thank the RCN Perioperative member community for their input into the development of this subject guide.
Books
The Royal Marsden manual online
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Chapter 16 covers Perioperative care.
Al-Shaikh B and Stacey S (2024) Essentials of equipment in anaesthesia, critical care and peri-operative medicine. 6th edn. Edinburgh: Elsevier.
Craig A and Hatfield A (2021) The complete recovery room book. 6th ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Freedman R, Herbert L, O'Donnell A, Ross N, Wilson D Iain and Allman K G (2022) Oxford handbook of anaesthesia. 5th edn. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Gawande A (2011) The checklist manifesto: how to get things right. London: Profile Books.
Hughes S J (2023) Oxford handbook of perioperative practice. 2nd edn. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Ljungqvist O, Francis N K, Urman R D (eds.) (2020) Enhanced recovery after surgery: a complete guide to optimizing outcomes. Cham: Springer.
MacKenzie C R, Cornell R N, Memtsoudis S G (eds.) (2020) Perioperative care of the orthopedic patient. 2nd edn. Cham: Springer.
Peate I and Jay M (eds.)(2021) Pudner’s Nursing the Surgical Patient. 4th ed. London: Elsevier.
Peden C J, Fleisher L A and Englesbe M (2023) Perioperative quality improvement. Philadelphia: Elsevier.
Odom-Forren J (2024) Drain's perianesthesia nursing: a critical care approach. 8th edn. Amsterdam: Elsevier.
Rodger D, Henshaw K, Rawling P and Miller S (eds.) (2022) Fundamentals of operating department practice. 2nd edn. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
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Journals
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