Perioperative Safety

<p>Unit I:  Overview of Perioperative Safety</p> <p>1. Essential Components for a Patient Safety Strategy </p> <p>2. Initiatives to Improve Patient Safety </p> <p>3. Use of MEDMARX Data for the Support and Development of Perioperative Medication Policy </p> <p>4. Competence, Nursing Practice, and Safe Patient Care</p> <p>Unit II:  Patient Safety</p> <p>5. Perioperative Safe Medication Use: A Focused Review</p> <p>6. Fire Prevention in the Perioperative Setting: Perioperative Fires Can Occur Everywhere</p> <p>7. Bloodless Surgery and Patient Safety Issues </p> <p>8. Perioperative Patient Safety and Procedural Sedation</p> <p>9. Incidence of Deep Venous Thrombosis in the Surgical Patient Population and Prophylactic Measures to Reduce Occurrence </p> <p>10. Preventative Measures for Wrong Site, Wrong Person and Wrong Procedure Errors in the Perioperative Setting</p> <p>11. To Count or Not to Count: A Surgical Misadventure</p> <p>12. Anesthesia and Perioperative Safety </p> <p>13. Preventing Surgical Site Infections </p> <p>14. Prevention of Positioning Injuries </p> <p>15. Normothermia Management: Prevention of Harm from Perioperative Hypothermia</p> <p>16. Electrosurgery</p> <p>Unit III:  Workplace Safety</p> <p>17. Workplace Safety Current Issues & Trends </p> <p>18. Hazards from Surgical Smoke: Decreasing Your Risk </p> <p>19. Bloodborne Pathogens </p> <p>20. Laser Risks and Preventive Measures for Staff </p> <p>21. Preventing Back Injuries: Patient Transfer and Mobility </p> <p>22. Latex Allergy </p> <p>23. Minimizing Radiation Exposure </p> <p>24. Infectious Disease Exposure </p> <p>25. Dealing with Disruptive Behavior in the Perioperative Setting</p> <p>Unit IV:  Looking Ahead</p> <p>26. Safety in the Perioperative Setting: Vendor Support </p> <p>27. Using Human Factors to Balance Your Operating Room </p>